Exciting times on the Woodland Trust Osprey Cam. Aila (the female) has been in the nest for most of the day. She’s there right now.
Facebook has finally banned a swathe of far-right hate groups, including the BNP, EDL and Britain First.
Not before time. Particularly glad to see Britain First on the list - they are very good at putting a respectable Facebook face on outright hate and racism.
The Wind in What's Left of the Willows…
Time for a #wilderfuture.
Yes, I am an old tree-hugger and proud.
The price of hedgehog influencers? Salmonella…
Facebook uploaded 1.5 million users’ email contacts without permission. Just as well Facebook has behaved impeccably up until now, so we can give them the benefit of the doubt, isn’t it?
Oh, wait. Never mind.
This is a telling piece of reporting from the Irish Times. It’s clear that members of the ERG are starting to concoct conspiracy theories to deal with the cognitive dissonance between their emotional beliefs and the reality of the world.
Interesting that Facebook saw Apple News as a competitive issue:
”The company discussed setting up a new section on the app entirely for news and directed a team to quietly work on developing it; one of the team’s ambitions was to try to build a competitor to Apple News.”
”But he brightened when he turned to one of the topics that, according to people close to him, truly engaged his imagination: using AI to keep humans from polluting Facebook.”
”To this emotional story, Facebook had a programmer’s rational response”
Engineers versus investigative journalists
From the WIRED piece everyone is talking about:
”Investigative journalists are like pit bulls. Kick them once and they’ll never trust you again.”
I suspect a team full of engineers was ill-equipped for dealing with this sort of journalist. They’re very different from the mainstream tech jouranlists.