这份时事通讯的基本原则之一是电子邮件是好的。电子邮件是基于一个开放的标准，让许多感兴趣的人建立在它之上。这是一种异步通信形式，允许您忽略消息，直到您准备好处理它们为止。如果你想让你的一帮同事一起干掉你的雇主，他们的名字已经在你的Gmail目录里了！

去年，这最后一课对成千上万的谷歌用户来说尤为重要，他们对自己的老板在国防合同、向中国扩张、性骚扰和其他各种劳动问题上感到失望。彭博社今天报道，当他们的老板让他们失望时，Gmail仍然站在他们一边。谷歌的**由此诞生：

Google’s employee email system played a pivotal role in the organizing for that protest, he said, with more than a thousand workers joining an email list used to plan it. Given that employees are spread around the globe and don’t have most co-workers’ personal emails, he said, company email is key to facilitating workers’ ability to mobilize.

谷歌关于谷歌**的官方公开立场是，这是美国企业史上最美丽的同事聚会。”即使在困难时期，我们的同事们也致力于创造一个更好的工作场所，这让我们深受鼓舞在过去的几周里，这种情况得到了很大的改善。”

然而，与此同时，彭博社记者Josh Eidelson、Hassan Kanu和Mark Bergen在周四巧妙地发现了一个奇怪的小案子，该公司正在努力从任何想给20000名同事发电子邮件告知下次**的人那里取走劳动保护。

此案的细节错综复杂，彭博社的故事值得一读。要点是，一名未透露姓名的谷歌用户在谷歌+（Google+）上发表保守观点后，受到了一项未披露的处罚(我有一个名为“Times Google意外地通过构建Google+拥有了自己”的notes文件，这个故事是对它的一个很好的补充。）

之后，他向国家劳资关系委员会提出了申诉。在为自己辩护的过程中，谷歌的律师们说了一些关于创造一个多元化和包容性的工作场所的明智的事情，顺便说一句，董事会应该宣布一个被称为“紫色通信标准”的老案子无效，“这保护了员工通过工作场所电子邮件发起**和组织自己的权利。

彭博社告诉我们剩下的：

Google has denied the NLRB’s allegati*** of wrongdoing. In a filing responding to the NLRB, it says the employee it disciplined had committed misconduct which “interfered with Google’s lawful interest in maintaining an inclusive workplace for women and minorities that is free of unlawful bias, discrimination, and haras**ent.” Google also wrote that the NLRB should reverse some of the legal precedents being used against it, including the Purple Communicati*** standard. It is not uncommon for companies to challenge legal precedents being used in cases against them.

The protection established in Purple Communicati*** is “pretty fundamental” given the centrality of email to modern workplace communicati***, said Wilma Liebman, who chaired the NLRB during Obama’s first term. Given Google’s rhetoric about “the free exchange of ideas, and itself as a purveyor of mechani**s for communicati***,” she said, “That’s an irony that Google, of all companies, would take such a narrow position.”

拉塞尔·布兰多姆（Russell Brandom）与劳工活动家亚娜·卡洛（Yana Calou）就此案进行了交谈。亚娜·卡洛与同事网的组织者一起工作谷歌正在将这种内部骚扰武器化，以限制工人的权利，”卡劳说：

Labor groups are worried that Google’s strategy for short-term victory could post a longer-term threat to organizers. Google won the Damore case without overturning any broader precedents, and organizers say it shouldn’t be necessary here either. “The Damore case established that talking about working conditi*** doesn’t give you the right to question your coworkers for immutable characteristics like race or gender,” Calou says. “They’re separate issues and the fact that Google would use that as a foil is really sad.”

当然，当涉及到不断增加的客户辩护时，律师们并不完全了解他们的克制。这基本上是谷歌的借口——正如一位女发言人告诉彭博社的那样，整个“永远不要给你的同事发电子邮件抱怨我们”只是“一个法律辩护，我们把它作为许多可能的辩护之一。”无限的律师，在无限的打字机上打字，产生无限的辩护！

据我所知，谷歌的律师们是否会将这一特殊的辩护从他们的箭袋中移除，我还不清楚。全国科技公司内部的劳资关系正在迅速变化，员工很难掌握管理层的最新职位。为了协调工作，律师们必须进行协调。他们必须沟通。

他们必须发电子邮件。

民主

围绕欧洲互联网的斗争变得更加混乱

谷歌一直在向欧盟施加巨大压力，要求其不要通过版权指令——现在它处于困境。詹姆斯·文森特（James Vincent）报告说，这种压力似乎是成功的，因为立法目前处于悬而未决的状态：

Strangely, the points being debated haven’t changed substantially since last year. While most of the Copyright Directive contains comm***ense updates to laws written in 2001, there are two regulati*** that are causing trouble: Articles 11 and 13, which critics have dubbed the “link tax” and “upload filter.”

Article 11 gives publishers the right to charge a fee when platforms like Google or Facebook show snippets of their articles, while Article 13 makes these platforms directly liable for user-uploaded content that infringes copyright. The reason the latter is referred to as the “upload filter” is that it would likely be enforced by scanning content before it’s uploaded. Think of it like YouTube’s Content ID, but preemptively covering most of the internet.

微软的必应在中断数小时后可在中国访问

必应在中国倒台，引发了人们的担忧，担心中国**将永远阻止它。但后来它又上线了，中国将整个事件归咎于一个技术错误。

倡导团体正在推动联邦贸易委员会解散Facebook

马克纳·凯利报道说，消费者权益倡导者正就竞争问题向联邦贸易委员会施加新的压力：

Groups like Open Market Institute, Color of Change, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center wrote to the Federal Trade Commission today requesting a major government intervention into how Facebook operates. The letter outlined several moves the FTC could take, including a multibillion-dollar fine, reforming the company’s hiring practices, and most importantly, breaking up one of the most powerful social media companies for abusing its market position.

科技革命

加州周日采访了一批匿名的现任和前任科技工作者，讨论了我们在这里讨论的许多问题。下面是一位前Facebook设计师关于他们辞职的原因：

The Boz memo was indicative of how executives really thought about Facebook. It basically said, “Bad things will happen on our platform. People will get bullied, people will get hurt, but it’s OK because we have this larger goal.” To me, that’s just not right. We should make sure that people aren’t harmed by our service because we want to grow and expand. This growth-at-all-costs manifesto pervaded everything in the company. There was a product where we would help businesses scan latent Bluetooth signals so that if a c***umer came in, the business owner would pick up their signals on their own phones, and we would know where they were. We were asking business owners to help us track their customers without being upfront about our tactics to either them or our users.

在谷歌的团队内部，努力保护您的数据免受黑客攻击（$）

Robert McMillan介绍了谷歌威胁分析小组及其领导人Shane Huntley。这是一个内部反间谍组织，负责揭露国家资助的各种邪恶活动：

Last summer, Mr. Huntley’s team stopped an allegedly Iranian-backed disinformation campaign by pulling dozens of YouTube channels that were using fake accounts to push misleading political stories primarily about the Middle East. Disinformation, especially around electi***, is a new focus for Mr. Huntley’s team.

The 27-person team tracks more than 200 hacker groups that pose a threat to Google and its users, ****yzing hacking techniques and clues to the groups’ identities to head off attacks. It leverages access to data across widely used Google products like Gmail, with more than 1.5 billion accounts world-wide, and to a database of attack code called VirusTotal managed by another arm of Google-parent Alphabet Inc.

YouTube仍在努力控制其推荐算法

卡罗琳·奥多诺万（Caroline O’Donovan）和查理·沃泽尔（Charlie Warzel）对YouTube的兔子洞进行了测试，看看该算法能多快地将它们从普通视频变成激进的垃圾。距离……不远：

Between January 7 and January 9, 2019, BuzzFeed News ran queries on the day’s most popular Google trending terms as well as major news stories, including Donald Trump’s primetime address on the border wall and the swearing in of the new members of the 116th Congress.

One query BuzzFeed News ran on the term “impeach the mother” — a reference to a remark by a newly sworn-in member of Congress regarding President Trump — highlighted Up Next’s ability to quickly jump to partisan content. The initial result for “impeach the mother” was a CNN clip of a White House press conference, after which YouTube Up Next recommended two more CNN videos in a row. From there, YouTube’s recommendati*** led to three more generic Trump press conference videos. At the sixth recommended video, the query veered unexpectedly into partisan territory with a clip from the c***ervative site New**ax titled “Bill O’Reilly Explains Why Nancy Pelosi Will Fail as House Leader.” From there, the subsequent clips YouTube recommended escalated from New**ax to increasingly partisan channels like YAFTV, pro-Trump media pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s channel, and finally channels like True Liberty and “TRUE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES.”

Twitter禁止，然后恢复Beto O'Rourke模仿账户

社交网络很难确定什么是允许的、善意的模仿，什么是邪恶的错误信息。我很同情推特：

In most circumstances, parody accounts do not violate the rules so long as there is a disclosure in the bio or in the user name stating that the account does not belong to the person it’s satirizing. @BetosBlog’s bio read, “On the road of life,” and nothing else to identify whether it was a parody account.

#构建墙数据可视化&amp；高容量影响者网络

艾琳·加拉赫（Erin Gallagher）在**关门期间为支持特朗普的各种标签提供了大量推特账户的数据可视化。

在别处

佛蒙特州社交网络如何成为在线社区的典范

花点时间做这件事：我的同事安德鲁·利普塔克（Andrew Liptak）介绍了佛蒙特州社交网络前廊论坛（Front Proch Forum），该论坛已成为该州一个有用的在线社区，同时仍然坚定地关注当地社区。杰克·多尔西（re）在推特上发了一个链接：

Front Porch Forum had come to Moretown just months before, but the site had spread throughout much of the state, town by town, since it was founded in 2000 in Burlington. The site looks like a relic from another era; its website is clean and minimal, without the pictures, reaction butt*** or comment fields that most social platforms have implemented today. Users register using their real name and address, and gain access to the forum for their town or neighborhood. This network of 185 forums covers each town in Vermont, as well as a handful in neighboring New York and New Hampshire. While most towns possess their own forum, the more populated areas of the state, such as the cities of Burlington and Montpelier, are split up into more manageable districts. During normal times, people might use it to alert their neighbors about everything from runaway Roombas to notices about garage sales or public meetings. But in a pinch, it proved essential when it came to coordinating disaster relief.

陷入恶作剧：阴谋论的幸存者直言不讳

埃德·皮尔金顿（Ed Pilkington）与阴谋论者的目标人物进行了交谈，比如这个人，他被错误地指控为4chan公园枪击案的凶手：

From there, Alex Jones’s c***piracy theory site, Infowars, leapt into the fray. Its “reporter” lifted Fontaine’s photo directly from 4chan and, without any attempt at verification, ran with it on the front page. “Shooter is a commie. Alleged photo of the suspect shows communist garb,” the outlet screamed. The false rumor quickly spread from Miami to Beijing.

Fontaine was horrified. “I knew a lot about the Alex Jones fanbase – that they were radical extremists who believe every word he says, and that a lot of them hold firearms. I knew my life was at risk.”

放大了哥伦比亚特区科文顿天主教三月视频的推特账户似乎与加州教师有关

科文顿天主教的故事得到了关注，这要归功于一个推特账户的早期病毒性推特，一些人猜测该推特账户可能属于一名外国特工。但布兰迪·扎德罗兹尼报道说，该账户似乎属于一名**，她可能使用被禁止的自动化方法来推广自己的推文，希望成为一名有影响力的人：

The account, which had over 41,000 followers, was run by a woman who identified herself as “Talia” and used a fake profile photo, belonging to a Brazilian blogger and model. Talia tweeted critici** of President Donald Trump and also used the account to sell teaching materials.

Facebook正在关闭其“时刻”应用程序

“瞬间”已经被抛弃多年了，这让我很惊讶：你可能会认为Facebook会有动机尽可能多地收集用户的个人照片，哪怕只是为了训练机器视觉系统。无论如何，它很快就会正式消亡，Rich Nieva报道：

“We’re ending support for the Moments app, which we originally launched as a place for people to save their photos,” Rushabh Doshi, director of product management for Moments, said in a statement. “We know the photos people share are important to them so we will continue offering ways to save memories within the Facebook app.”

Facebook said it wants to let people retrieve their photos from the app before it’s killed. Here’s how to do that: Starting Thursday, people will be able to go to a website Facebook has set up, where they can go through their photos and export them either to their computers or the camera rolls on their phones. That option will be available until May.

Facebook对Instagram上令人沮丧的**帖子表示“抱歉”

据英国广播公司报道，它能够在Instagram上轻松找到与自残相关的内容，而Instagram本应被禁止。一个家庭报告说，他们的女儿在**前遵循了几个与自残有关的说法。Facebook道歉：

“If it’s there to sensationalise and glamourise, of course it has no place on our platform, it shouldn’t be on our platform. And if we need to work harder to make sure it isn’t on our platform then we certainly will.”

Instagram“巨魔”被控嘲弄和威胁帕克兰枪击案受害者家属

Adi Robertson报道，Brandon Fleury被控在去年佛罗里达州帕克兰一所学校的袭击中使用Instagram冒充凶手，嘲弄在枪击中死亡的学生的朋友和家人：

Fleury had apparently chosen people with large social media followings or ones involved in political activi**, attempting to gain notoriety from the haras**ent. (Guttenberg’s father is a prominent gun control advocate.) The affidavit says that Fleury “did not show remorse for posting the comments but explained that he would not follow through on the threats he communicated.”

Instagram Meme账户现在相当不错

泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）在探索Instagram时，就好像它是一座充满隐藏房间的巨大宅邸，只是在等待有人无意中发现一个在探索页面上几乎看不见的入口。今天，她告诉我们关于青少年模因和主题账户的故事，大声说出来非常有趣：

At first glance, a meme-and-theme page looks a lot like a general aesthetics account, a type of page dedicated to posting on a single color scheme or theme, like a digital mood board. Themes rotate frequently, but can be something as simple as all color-washed photos, celestial pictures, or any set of images that are visually similar. Administrators find the pictures on the image-sharing service We Heart It or through Google image searches. Many teens follow a set of aesthetics accounts that post photos related to their interest or the season: fall themes to get excited for Halloween, or Christmas themes for the holiday season.

But teenagers also love memes, and meme-and-theme pages merge these two genres into one. While a meme-and-theme page looks like an aesthetics account, below the surface it’s teeming with memes. Like thread accounts, meme-and-theme pages take advantage of Instagram’s photo-carousel feature: Administrators keep their grids looking pretty by uploading on-theme photos as the first post in each carousel. But when a user swipes left, a series of memes is revealed.

Instagram被黑了？祝你好运把它拿回来。

你可以在任何时候写关于任何技术平台的故事，这是真的。但在一个人们感觉自己与社交账户联系如此紧密的世界里，账户恢复基本上仍然是一项基于祈祷的事业，这让人感到疯狂。卡莉莎·贝尔：

What Instagram doesn’t say is that account remediation (the company’s official term for reuniting hacking victims with lost accounts) can take weeks or months to resolve, and some users are never able to regain access to their accounts.

In a tweet, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri told Mashable: “This is definitely an area we need to do better, and we’re currently working on making it easier for people to get their accounts back.”

总部琐事将运行一些没有现金奖励的游戏

HQ正在尝试其他玩家获胜的方法，包括一种随着时间积累积分的方法：

There will continue to be games with cash rewards, says Brandon Teitel, SVP of programming and partnerships at HQ. The company recently began dividing the almost month-long runs of the show into seas***, and Teitel says the season that began on Monday — season two — will give away more cash than the last.

Players will also be able to compete for points over the course of a season. “We look at it as another way to win HQ,” Teitel says. “I think a lot of people traditionally have thought it’s really hard to win HQ, and it is. Not everyone is going to win the game, but getting credit for the questi*** that you got right feels really good.”

发射

Twitter测试“原始Tweeter”标签以区分谁启动了一个线程

这里有一个功能，它的灵感来自Reddit上类似的东西。很好？我读到的大多数帖子都不是很长，也不会产生太多关于谁开始的困惑。不过，它可能在使用不太知名的推特的较长线程中很有用。

WhatsApp业务为桌面和web应用程序添加快速回复、过滤和标签

Aatif Sumar报告称，WhatsApp的业务功能已从移动应用迁移到桌面：

WhatsApp also dropped a new statistic: over 5M **all businesses now use the app regularly (larger organizati*** use the Business API). In many parts of the developing world, WhatsApp has been a boon for facilitating commerce. From lead generation and promotion to after-sales service and collection, WhatsApp has served as a CRM and customer-facing website rolled into one — there are even startups dedicated to making selling over WhatsApp easier. All this means we should expect new features to keep making their way to the app, and in my opinion, monetization of WhatsApp Business seems like a much better option than adding advertisements to the largely-unused Status section.

拿

关于Facebook的事实（美元）

在这里，马克·扎克伯格（MarkZuckerberg）提供了“参议员，我们卖广告”的扩展舞蹈混音

I believe everyone should have a voice and be able to connect. If we’re committed to serving everyone, then we need a service that is affordable to everyone. The best way to do that is to offer services for free, which ads enable us to do.

我把Facebook从我的生活中剪掉了。我错过了

克什米尔山暂时摆脱了Facebook，她非常想念它！

It’s the proverbial double-edged sword: I feel both out of touch when not on these channels, but like I’m worse at being in touch because they exist.

Funnily enough, reading a draft of this story convinces one of my editors, who has never had Facebook or Instagram, to join the latter because he realizes he doesn’t have a way to show cool things “to a bunch of people I know at the same time without texting them [when] they’re not really worth texting over.”

决不发推特

法哈德·曼乔（Farhad Manjoo）关于大多数人——尤其是媒体——是否应该在推特上花费大量时间的专栏在推特上引发了很多讨论，正如你所料(在我看来，有一件事太让人沮丧了：Twitter通常非常有趣！）我无法想象在没有Twitter的情况下写这篇时事通讯，但对它当前化身的这种描述对我来说基本上是正确的：

But Twitter is not that carefree clubhouse for journali** anymore. Instead it is the epicenter of a n***top information war, an almost comically undermanaged gladiatorial arena where activists and disinformation artists and politicians and marketers gather to target and influence the wider media world.

联邦贸易委员会对Facebook的罚款应该针对马克·扎克伯格和其他高管。

April Glaser认为，几乎任何针对该公司的罚款都将是一记耳光，除非监管机构有所创新。

最后。。。

“另外两个”与网络名人亲戚的现实

你有没有因为和你约会的人在Instagram上出名而大汗淋漓？因为我现在要：

It got to the point where I was like: Okay so I’m going to mute you on Instagram; I want to see you at the end of day and not really know that you know you were emotional over this and over that. At first she was very okay with that. And then as it got further into the relati***hip she said listen, I think I should be with someone that’s encouraging me to put content out. And I was like: well, that’s not me. There’s videos of her at 4 o’clock in the morning eating a hamburger dancing to the music and thinking you know why, what are you doing?

After we broke up, all my friends would start sending me her stories like a dude did you see this today. After we broke up I was in her story, she said “oh I just went through a mini breakup” and that was an absolute nightmare.

如果我的下一次分手出现在Instagram的故事中，我就报警！

跟我说

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