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  1. Adding Value, FUSE Marketing Group Offers Clients a Third Sellout Seminar on Facebook Credits
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Future-forward marketing agency from Toronto hosts information sessions for eager clients online, explaining the opportunities surrounding the only currency to be used soon on Facebook.
  2. Big business censorship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Big business is almost entirely unaccountable. Some of the worst offenders are US corporations exporting harmful attitudes from the USA to the rest of the world. We suspect that some of them are driven by religious prejudices largely alien to Europe.
  3. China suspected of Facebook attack on Nato's supreme allied commander
    Beijing cyber-spies accused of using fake social networking accounts in bid to steal military secrets from the west

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Nato's most senior military commander has been allegedly been targeted in a Facebook scam designed to glean information about him from his colleagues, friends and family.
  4. Facebook bans developer of F.B. Purity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  5. Facebook Facts
    Finding Friends and Foes

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
  6. Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photos
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Move means pictures could be used in advertising, with all payments going to social media giant.
  7. Facebook job ads suggest 'mind reading' social networks could soon be a reality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Details job descriptions from the 'Building 8' group of facebook, which suggest engineering efforts in neuroscience, neuroimaging, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
  8. Facebook Shut Me Down
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Peled describes how Facebook shut him down after he exposed an Israeli plant.
  9. Facebook Wants You to Know if You’re Getting Your News From the Wrong Government
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Media outlets owned by a company with ties to the Russian government are forced to disclose their affiliation on Facebook. Media outlets owned or funded by the US government are not held to the same standard.
  10. Facebook: Billions Served
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Facebook announced that it now has one billion users. An astounding number. On the other hand, you or your organization may have but 1000 or 10,000. This singular measure of success is of little value, and can be misleading.
  11. Facebook’s 'anti-fake news' plan looks like effort to curb alternative media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Examines the problems of how 'fake news' is defined, and how Facebook's strategy to limit exposure to 'fake news' might also impact any alternative media.
  12. Fear of the Facebook "Fan"
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    How do you use your Facebook Fan page and what does that say about your organization? Most organizations are gutless and spineless, are you?
  13. Fundamentalists target Twitter and Facebook in unprecedented move
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the ruling by an Islamic court ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft.
  14. Global Coalition to Facebook: 'Authentic Names' Are Authentically Dangerous for Your Users
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their "real names" (or "authentic identities" as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place. In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community advocates pointing out that the policy facilitates harassment, silencing, and even physical violence towards its most vulnerable users.
  15. Have new social media made 'traditional' media obsolete?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    New media provide additional channels for getting messages out, but they don't make older media obsolete. The task is of public relations is to reach people through the media they use. In an increasingly diverse and fragmented world, that means using as many different channels of communication as possible.
  16. How to Avoid the Dreaded 'UnLike'
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It's imperative that organizations reach these 'overconnected' fans with useful engagement because we all know that gaining a 'like' doesn't necessarily translate to gaining a fan.
  17. IFJ urges Facebook to reject outside influence
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges social media platform Facebook to uphold freedom of expression and say no to outside influence, after many Hong Kong account holders expressed anger at perceived interference.
  18. Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
  19. Interview with director of "Like"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The director of a documentary about Bangladeshi workers who get paid to "like" Facebook posts discusses the people and ideas behind her film.
  20. ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
    CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
  21. It's Complicated
    The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    In It's Complicated, danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media.
  22. Manipulating Reality: Facebook is Listening to You
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    One thing we have become all too used to is that our reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are passed off as democracy in action, more guns (or more nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
  23. Millennials and Political News
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Obama has often been dubbed 'the first social media president' but this title has more implications than you think. This report looks at the sources of political news across generations. Spoiler alert: Millennials get significantly more news from Facebook than local television.
  24. Ontario Honda Motorcycle And ATV Dealers Show How to Get Facebook Credits or Music Download in Contest
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The Honda Summer Lovin’ Event, time-limited rebates on motorcycles and ATVs across Canada, gets even more love in Ontario with Facebook Credits, music downloads, and a draw for a Honda VT750 RS motorcycle.
  25. Social Networking and the Death of the Internet
    How Do You "Like" That?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook — a group of linked pages on a giant website — is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and that’s not a whole lot of “using”. But there is a comfort in having one’s options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
  26. Tomorrow on NY Radio We'll Be Dropping a Bomb on Facebook
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    I've been asked to speak for Narco News and the nonprofit Fund for Authentic Journalism, and I'll announce that we're taking our 27,000+ Facebook users to Tsu as our response to Facebook and Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg banning links to his upstart competitor last weekend.
  27. Who Are the 5.5 Million Facebook Fans of Chinese State Newspaper People's Daily?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Facebook has been banned in China for six years yet the Facebook account for Chinese State Newspaper People’s Daily has over 5.5 million fans. What is a state run newspaper doing on a social network that none of its consumers can access? Or, better yet, how does a state run newspaper have 5.5 million fans on a website that none of its consumers can access?
  28. Why Facebook Failed Our Censorship Test
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    If you click around Facebook's "Government Request Report," you'll notice that, for many countries, Facebook enumerates the number of "content restrictions" the company has fulfilled. This is a sanitized term for censorship.
  29. Will Facebook take over the world?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Perceived as a time-waster and on-line haunt for teens and twenty-somethings, the reality is that it has grown well beyond the original confines of social networking. And when it busts out of its walled garden completely, it will have profound implic
  30. With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
  31. You Are Not a Gadget
    A Manifesto

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    The internet has spawned a hive mentality, where the crowd takes precedence over the individual.

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