Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news(english.elpais.com)

77 points by belter 2 years ago | 63 comments

The effect of deplatforming hate organizations on their online audience(pnas.org)

32 points by geox 3 years ago | 25 comments

The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility(nber.org)

101 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 75 comments

Fewer H-1B Visas Did Not Mean More Employment for Natives (2017)(nber.org)

20 points by tuan 1 year ago | 21 comments

Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?(nber.org)

178 points by lxm 1 year ago | 394 comments

Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States(nber.org)

27 points by johntfella 1 year ago | 32 comments

Facebook is cooked(pilk.website)

1416 points by npilk 8 months ago | 777 comments

A personal blog post arguing that Facebook is now dominated by AI-generated slop content and has been abandoned by younger users.

Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over(newyorker.com)

468 points by FinnLobsien 1 year ago | 801 comments

New Yorker column by Kyle Chayka on Mark Zuckerberg's testimony at Meta's antitrust trial arguing that social media platforms are no longer what they used to be.

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government(arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram(dig.watch)

643 points by pbrw 3 years ago | 631 comments

Dig.watch news update reporting that the EU data protection regulator banned Meta's personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram, with possible fines up to 4% of turnover.