Books
- An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, by Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang The Bridge Street Press 2021
- Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, by Roger McName Penguin Press 2019
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshan Zuboff PublicAffairs 2019
- Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects us and Undermines Democracy, by Siva Vaidhyanathan, 2018
- Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, by Jonathan Taplin, 2017
Research
- Hidden Hate: How Instagram fails to act on 9 in 10 reports of misogyny in DMs, Center for Countering Digital Hate April 6, 2022
- Facebook fail to tackle Ukrainian Bioweapons Labs myth New research shows Facebook is failing to label 80% of articles fuelling the Ukrainian bioweapons labs myth, Center for Countering Digital Hate March 22, 2022
- Health Advertising on Facebook: Privacy & Policy Considerations, Cornell University February 1, 2022
- An Investigation of Influential Users in the Promotion and Marketing of Heated Tobacco Products on Instagram: A Social Network Analysis, Institute for Data, Democracy Politics February 1, 2022
- Facebook’s Metaverse One incident of abuse and harassment every 7 minutes, Center for Countering Digital Hate December 30, 2021
- Endangering Women for Profit: Facebook and Google sell ad space for dangerous medical misinformation, Center for Countering Digital Hate September 14, 2021
- Euro ’21 Final, racism and Instagram: Instagram fails to remove 94% of accounts targeting footballers with vile racist abuse, Center for Countering Digital Hate July 12, 2021
- Malgorithm – Fix instagram: We the undersigned call on you to fix Instagram’s broken algorithm, which is publishing hate and misinformation to millions of users, Center for Countering Digital Hate March 9, 2021
- Facebook Filters, Fundamental Rights, and the CJEU’s Glawischnig-Piesczek Ruling, The Center for Internet and Society May 6, 2020
- Facebook’s Oversight Board plays it safe, Tow Center for Digital Journalism 2020
- Five Days of Facebook Fact-Checking, Tow Center for Digital Journalism 2020
- Media amnesia and the Facebook News Tab, Tow Center for Digital Journalism 2019
- Is Facebook really concerned about privacy? Tow Center for Digital Journalism 2019
Laws
Essays/Blogs
- Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes, CACM 2021
- Facebook’s Vast Wasteland, The Atlantic November 11, 2021
- The Facebook Files: Mark Zuckerberg’s Vaccine Plan Was No Match for Facebook — The CEO Hoped to Fight the Pandemic with a Wide-Ranging Public Information Push. Then, Antivaccine Activists Flooded the Site, Using the Platform’s Own Tools to Sow Doubts, Wall Street Journal September 18, 2021
- Blocking the President, Harvard Law Today January 13, 2021
- Facebook “Transparency Report” Turns Out to Be Anything But, Columbia Journalism Review August 26, 2021
- Mark Zuckerberg is On the Wrong Side of History, Fast Company June 8, 2020
- “What Kind of Oversight Board Have You Given Us?” The University of Chicago Law Review Online May 11, 2020
- The Facebook Files: Facebook Knows Instagram is Toxic for Teen Girls, Its Research Shows Internal Documents Show a Youth Mental-Health Issue that Facebook Plays Down In Public, Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2021
- The Facebook Files: Facebook Documents Reveal Secret Elite Exempt From Its Rules —‚ XCheck Program Gives Celebrities, Politicians Special Treatment, Which Some Abuse, Wall Street Journal September 14, 2021
- Want to Fight Back Against Facebook’s Algorithm? Check Out These Tools, Fast Company March 21, 2018
News
- Texas sues Facebook’s parent, saying it collected facial recognition data without consent. NYTimes February 14, 2022
- A Change by Apple Is Tormenting Internet Companies, Especially Meta, NYTimes February 3, 2022
- 6 Reasons Meta Is in Trouble, NYTimes February 3, 2022
- How Facebook Is Morphing Into Meta, NYTimes January 31, 2022
- Facebook’s Unglamorous Mistakes, NYTimes January 19, 2022
- The Facebook CEO won’t talk to the Guardian. So we built a Zuckerbot and interviewed it instead, The Guardian December 27, 2021
- Instagram says parental controls will arrive in March. NYTimes December 7, 2021
- Investigating Facebook: a fractious relationship with academia, FT December 6, 2021
- You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation, NYTimes November 12, 2021
- Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. NYTimes November 9, 2021
- The Meta Narrative: What We’ve Learn from the Facebook Papers, The New Yorker November 5, 2021
- Meta Makes Changes to Marketing Strategy Amid Scandals, NY Times November 2, 2021
- Nobody Can See Into Facebook, The Atlantic October 30, 2021
- The Metaverse is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch, NYTimes October 29, 2021
- China’s ByteDance is Disrupting Facebook, Artificial Intelligence Report October 26, 2021
- Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role, NYTimes October 22, 2021
- Is Mark Zuckerberg a Man Without Principles, NYTimes October 18, 2021
- Instagram Struggles with Fears of Losing Its ‘Pipeline’: Young Users, NYTimes October 16, 2021
- Facebook Clamps Down on Its Internal Message Boards, NYTimes October 13, 2021
- After Whistle-Blower Goes Public, Facebook Tries Calming Employees, NYTimes October 10, 2021
- Does Instagram Harm Girls? No One Really Knows, NYTimes October 10, 2021
- Whistle-Blower Unites Democrats and Republicans Facebook in Calling for Regulation of Facebook, NYTimes October 10, 2021
- Facebook hides data showing it harms users. Outside scholars need access. The Washington Post October 5, 2021
- Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says, NYTimes October 2, 2021
- Whistle-Blower to Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits Over Safety”, NYTimes October 2, 2021
- Facebook Struggles to Quell Uproar Over Instagram’s Effect on Teens, NYTimes October 1, 2021
- Facebook Delays Instagram App for Users 13 and Younger, NYTimes September 27, 2021
- No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image, NYTimes September 21, 2021
- The Facebook Files: Facebook’s Staff Flags Criminals, but Company Often Fails to Act — Documents Show Alarm About What Is On the Site Outside U.S. Where User Numbers Are Huge, Wall Street Journal September 21, 2021
- Facebook Fires Back at Damning Wall Street Journal Reports That Accuse the Company of Being ‘Riddled With Flaws’, Business Insider September 19, 2021
- The Endless Facebook Apology, NYTimes September 17, 2021
- Facebook, Fearing Public Outcry, Shelved Earlier Report on Popular Posts, NYTimes August 20, 2021
- NYU Researchers Speak Out After Facebook Disables Their Accounts, Protocol August 4, 2021
- Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Social Network’s Ban of Trump, NYTimes May 5, 2021
- Mark Zuckerberg is Urged to Scrap Plans to Develop an Instagram for Children, NYTimes April 15, 2021
- People Want Real Change From Facebook. Its ‘Supreme Court’ Isn’t Delivering, NYTimes Feb 5, 2021
- Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth, NYTimes November 24, 2020
- Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting, The Wall Street Journal October 23, 2020
- Why Facebook’s Blocking of New Political Ads May Fall Short, NYTimes September 4, 2020
- ‘Too Big to Fail’: Why Even a Historic Ad Boycott Won’t Change Facebook, The Guardian July 11, 2020
- Clean Up Your Act, Facebook, or We’re Leaving, NYTimes June 30, 2020
- We Are a New Board at Facebook. Here’s What We’ll Decide, NYTimes May 6, 2020
- Facebook Calls Truce With Publishers as It Unveils Facebook News, NYTimes April 25, 2020
- Our Ingenuity Shapes Facebook, NYTimes April 24, 2020
- The Defector, The New Yorker December 2, 2019
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Accused of Lying, Withstands a Washington Beating, NYTimes October 23, 2019
- Zuckerberg to Admit that Facebook Has Trust Issues, NYTimes October 22, 2019
- Why Facebook Keeps Beating Every Rival: It’s the Network, of Course, NYTimes February 5, 2019
- Facebook’s Stock Plunge Shatters Faith in Tech Companies’ Invincibility, NYTimes July 26, 2018
- Are You Really the Product? The History of a Dangerous Idea, Slate April 27, 2018
- How Merchants Use Facebook to Flood Amazon with Fake Reviews, The Washington Post April 23, 2018
- Can Facebook Develop a Conscience? NYTimes April 11, 2018
- Fact Check: What Mark Zuckerberg Said About Facebook, Privacy and Russia, NYTimes April 11, 2018
- Designers Just Fixed Facebook. Your Move, Zuckerberg, Fast Company April 6, 2018
- Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It, NYTimes April 3, 2018
- Facebook Should Consider a ‘Why Me?’ Button, NYTimes April 2, 2018
- What if a Healthier Facebook Is Just … Instagram? NYTimes January 22, 2018
- Facebook Doesn’t Like What It Sees When It Looks in the Mirror, NYTimes January 16, 2018
- Facebook Navigates an Internet Fractured by Governmental Controls, NYTimes September 17, 2017
- News Outlets to Seek Bargaining Rights Against Google and Facebook, NYTimes July 9, 2018
- Why Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook, NYTimes April 26, 2017
Websites
- Facebook, Wikipedia