References for Saving the World from Facebook

The following are the source and reference materials used for The Papercuts Library #3 – Saving the World from Facebook

Warning: Spoilers ahead…

p6-7 –

• Criticism of Facebook – Wikipedia

• Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis – New York Times
• Reasons not to be used by Facebook – Stallman.org

p8-9 –

• Digital media use and mental health – Wikipedia
• Problematic social media use – Wikipedia

• New Studies Show Just How Bad Social Media Is For Mental Health – Forbes
• Social Media Use and Mental Health: A Review [Google Doc] – An ongoing open-source literature review posted and curated by Jonathan Haidt (NYU-Stern) and Jean Twenge (San Diego State U).
• Quitting Facebook Could Make You Happier – Psychology Today
• This Is Your Brain Off Facebook – New York Times

p10-11 –

The Loss of Privacy

• Facebook Breach Exposed Personal Data of Millions of Users (Oct. 2018) – Consumer Reports
• 267 million Facebook users’ data has reportedly been leaked (Dec. 2019) – The Next Web
• Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It – BuzzFeed News
• Facebook data privacy scandal: A cheat sheet – Tech Republic
• A timeline of Facebook’s privacy issues — and its responses – NBC News
• Facebook can see your web activity. Here’s how to stop it – CNET
• CR Researchers Find Facebook Privacy Settings Maximize Data Collection – Consumer Reports
• Can Potential Employers Check Your Facebook Page? – Nolo

The Spread of Disinformation

• Working to Stop Misinformation and False News – Facebook

• Online disinformation is getting worse but the government and tech giants still aren’t doing enough to fight back – Business Insider
• Disinformation still running rampant on Facebook, study says – Columbia Journalism Review
• #StopHate Coalition Responds to Facebook’s Announcement about Disinformation and Political Misinformation – NAACP
• Can Facebook Be Fixed? – Rolling Stone
• Surprise! Facebook is reportedly still tops when it comes to disinformation. – Mashable

• The Global Disinformation Order 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation [PDF] – University of Oxford

• Coronavirus misinformation is putting Facebook to the test – The Verge
• ‘But I Saw It on Facebook’: Hoaxes Are Making Doctors’ Jobs Harder – New York Times Avaaz: Facebook’s algorithm drove 3.8 billion views of health misinformation – VentureBeat

• Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do to stop its spread – USA Today
• Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook and Twitter Say – New York Times
• Disinformation On Facebook Could Affect The Way You Vote – NPR
• How online ad targeting weaponizes political misinformation – Axios

The Undermining of Democracy

• Facebook admits social media can ‘corrode democracy’ – CNN Business
• Hard Questions: What Effect Does Social Media Have on Democracy? – Facebook
• Concerns about democracy in the digital age – Pew Research Center

• Social media is rotting democracy from within – Vox
• What Facebook Did to American Democracy – The Atlantic
• Is Facebook undermining democracy in Africa? – BBC

• To Stir Discord in 2016, Russians Turned Most Often to Facebook – New York Times
• Facebook Data May Have Been Illicitly Used for Politics, and It Started With a Quiz – Consumer Reports
• Dealing With the Nefarious Manipulation of the Facebook, Google Monopolies – New American Journal

p12-13 –

• Facebook Reaches 2.38 Billion Users, Beats Revenue Estimates in Latest Update – Social Media Today
• Facebook by the Numbers: Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts – Omnicore

• Facebook Usage Declined and the 3 Reasons Why – Convince & Convert
• Facebook’s engagement is sinking with no end in sight – Mashable
• Facebook is not getting any bigger in the United States – Vox
• New Report Shows Facebook Usage Dropped for a Second Straight Year in the US – Social Media Today
• Facebook lost 15 million US users in the past two years, report says – CNET
• Facebook daily users down in Europe, flat in North America, but revenue keeps rising – CNBC

• Facebook’s Free Basics – Facebook
• Internet.org – Wikipedia
• What Happened to Facebook’s Grand Plan to Wire the World? – Wired
• ‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users – The Guardian

• 10 facts about Americans and Facebook – Pew Research Center

p14-15 –

• Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die – The Atlantic

• Facebook for Business – Facebook

p16-17 –

• Search for “alternatives to Facebook Groups” – Google

• Facebook Groups Are Destroying America – Wired

p18-19 –

• What categories of my Facebook data are available to me? – Facebook

• 27 Top Facebook Demographics that Matter to Social Media Marketers – Hootsuite

p20-21 –

• Facebook’s News Feed – Wikipedia

• How the Facebook Algorithm Works in 2020 and How to Make it Work for You – Hootsuite

p24-25 –

You can find apps and websites where you are using Facebook to log in here:

• Apps and Websites – Facebook

• The Security Risks of Logging in With Facebook (2018) – Wired

p26-27 –

• How do I download a copy of my information on Facebook? – Facebook

p30-31 –

• Share of U.S. adults using social media, including Facebook, is mostly unchanged since 2018 – Pew Research Center

• When women lead, everyone progresses. – Facebook Investor Relations
• Do Men Use Facebook Differently Than Women? – Social Media Today

• Facebook Q3 2019 Earnings Presentation, Slide 8 [PDF] – Facebook Investor Relations

p32-33 –

• Deactivating & Deleting Your Account – Facebook

• 4 Secret Ways to Game Facebook’s News Feed – Inc.
• How the Facebook algorithm works and ways to outsmart it – Sprout Social
• Is It Possible To Game The Facebook Algorithm? – The Go! Agency
• Decoding the Facebook Algorithm: A Fully Up-to-Date List of the Algorithm Factors and Changes – Buffer
• Why Social Media Companies Frown on ‘Gaming the Algorithm’ – Wired

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