Just say no to political “copy/paste” shares on Facebook
The perils of Facebook requests to "Please copy/paste and share widely", especially when the request is political; includes case study of request to call Congress.
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Facebook’s walled garden: too seductive for news companies to ignore?
Facebook wants to be the Interent, ie, the only place you need to go online. To that end, The New York Times -- and a few other news organizations -- is getting ready to test Facebook as a delivery platform for its content.
There are many reasons why this is a bad idea in the long run, even if there might be some short-term profit to be made. Other digital skeletons suggest just how short-term that profit might be: AOL, the first walled garden designed to be an Internet gatekeeper; first Yahoo and then Google provided powerful on-ramps to Internet content.
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How to report Facebook photos that promote hate
We've all encountered it: the Facebook post that spews hate.
Next time, report it. And tell your friends you have reported it. Some of them will do so, too, and some of their friends, and -- despite its initial refusal to act -- Facebook just might take action. Some friends and I just succeeded in helping get a photo pulled that was hate speech directed at Muslims.
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