Hedge Fund Manager Puts Profile on Social Media, Lures $20 Million
• bloomberg.comJoshua Young set up a profile on SumZero, a site that helps match fund managers with institutional investors, and landed a university endowment.
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Twitter announces 'trust and safety' panel to police content
• http://www.washingtonexaminer.comTwitter on Tuesday announced the formation of a new "Trust and Safety Council," which will work to develop policies censoring speech on the site. The group will be comprised of more than 40 organizations from 13 regions around the world.
Mark Zuckerberg shows off his Mandarin skills to wish a healthy and prosperous Year of the Monkey
• Business InsiderMark Zuckerberg showed off his Mandarin Chinese skills in a video on his Facebook page Saturday to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year.
If you're plugged into broadcast media or social media, your thoughts are not your own
• Natural NewsIf you are plugged into broadcast media or the internet, your thoughts are not your own.
Facebook deletes medical marijuana pages
• nj.comMedical marijuana is legal in 23 states including New Jersey, but the ubiquitous social media giant Facebook apparently doesn't "like" it.
Talking To Millennials About Liberty
• https://www.youtube.comThe Liberty Report is joined by Kristin Soltis Anderson, author of The Selfie Vote: How Millennials Are Leading America. What are younger people concerned about and how can they be reached with the message of Liberty?
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L. Neil SmithAccording to an article in the New York Times online, the idiots and moral cripples who run Facebook have decided, in their complete absence of wisdom, to prohibit private gun sales on their system. Federally licensed dealers will not be affected, no
Homeland Security Seeks State-Of-The-Art Automated Social Media Analytics Software
• https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2016/01/27/The Department of Homeland Security wants businesses to present their cutting-edge social media analytics services next month -- especially technology that could enhance criminal investigations, traveler screenings and situational awareness.
Facebook admits that it's worried about ad blockers
• Business InsiderFacebook is starting to worry about ad blockers.
The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe
• Washington PostIn the middle of January, in a change noticed nowhere but Spain, Facebook added six words to a single dialogue box - and inadvertently stumbled into a tortuous national debate.
Homeland Security Seeks State-Of-The-Art Automated Social Media Analytics Software
• https://www.technocracy.newsTN Note: DHS can draw on intelligence information from any other agency, but feels that it needs yet more advanced software tools to analyze social media in order to find evil-doers. The RFI gives lip-service to "protect the privacy, civil rights a
Inside Facebook's Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World
• WiredThe stern woman behind the press desk at the United Nations is certain I've made a mistake about the person I'm here to see. "Mr. Mark Zuckerberg?" she says. "Who's he?"
Single-Serving Stalinism: The Continuing Persecution of Matthew Townsend
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By William Norman GriThe State of Idaho remains perversely determined to steal five years from the life of Matthew Townsend as punishment for publishing a defiant but harmless statement on his Facebook page.
BIONIC PENIS man takes to Reddit to reveal how his new mechanical manhood works
• express.co.ukA MAN fitted with a bionic penis has taken to social media site Reddit to take part in one of its famous Ask Me Anything forums.
Wael Ghonim: Let's design social media that drives real change
• TEDWael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt ... by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to messy, then ugly and heartbreaking. And social media fo
Why Indians are turning down Facebook's free internet
• globalpost.comImagine a billion of the world's poorest gaining overnight access to health information, education, and professional help -- for free.
Facebook's 'Free' Internet Program Had a Rough Week
• http://motherboard.vice.com, by DANIEL OBERHAUSUp to 3 million Egyptians lost their connection to the internet last week when Facebook's Free Basics program was shut down on Wednesday. The reason for the shutdown of Facebook's controversial Free Basics program, which launched in Egypt in Octo
A VC who helped build Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn explains what's next in social...
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Josh ElmanA VC who helped build Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn explains what's next in social and messaging
Page Views Don't Matter Anymore--But They Just Won't Die
• http://www.wired.com, JULIA GREENBERGTHE PAGE VIEW is a zombie. For years, everyone has been saying it is no longer a meaningful way to measure online popularity.
Why India's Net Neutrality Activists Hate Facebook
• http://www.bloomberg.comMark Zuckerberg's Internet.org philanthropy finds itself cast as the villain in India's fight over Internet rules
Coming to America? China Introduces 'Credit Score' For Obedient Citizens
• http://www.infowars.com, Paul Joseph WatsonSocial isolation for people who express controversial opinions or dissent
US Special Forces thrown out of Libya after secret mission revealed
• telegraph.co.ukA unit of US Special Operations Forces have been spotted inside Libya after photographs were posted online on the North African country's air force social media page
You Can Now Call an Uber in Messenger, Facebook's Window to the World
• http://www.wired.comNeed an Uber? Just send a message. Uber and Facebook said today that US users of Facebook Messenger can now sign up for the car-hailing service and request a ride, all without leaving a conversation or downloading the Uber app.
Facebook Messenger Lets You Book an Uber
• bloomberg.comThe feature will be made available in the U.S. to start.
Hackers trace ISIS Twitter accounts back to internet addresses linked to Department of Work ...
• mirror.co.ukTeenage computer experts unveil astonishing web of unpublicised interactions linking extremist social media mouthpieces to the British government
Facebook Open-Sources The Computers Behind Its Artificial Intelligence
• http://www.popsci.com, By Dave GershgornIntroducing 'Big Sur,' the brains of A.I.
Serial podcast returns as Bowe Bergdahl talks US military 'desertion' for first time
• Rory Carroll and Jessica GlenzaIn the second case taken up by host Sarah Koenig's program, the longest-held US prisoner of war since Vietnam speaks out on his captivity
Erdogan friends Zuckerberg over pro-Muslim message
• http://www.globalpost.com, Agence France-PresseTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for emphasising the difference between Islam and terror, after the billionaire social network tycoon posted a message defending Muslims against discrimination
Israel's cynical approach is feeding unrest
• jonathan-cook.netOnce it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.
Facebook Wants You To Know That Zuckerberg's 99% Initiative Is Not A Charity
• fastcompany.comThe company is going out of its way to make the point, which is raising questions about the exact nature of the new initiative.
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