Valerie Saunders

@LMenachemi Brilliant.

"What if Facebook is rotting our brains" nyti.ms/2kyFO8P

Getting punchy.

#LIS651 After.

#LIS651 Before.

@crasslogo @barnlib Beautiful! I love these covers.

#LIS651 algorithms being used to reinforce discriminatory practices. bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-po…

#LIS651 The Guardian has some comments on FB requesting your explicit photos to stop revenge porn. "You've got to break a few eggs to make an omelette. You have to traumatise a few kids to build a $600bn global behemoth" ... amp.theguardian.com/technology/201…

#LIS651 As we consider algorithms. qz.com/1130094/todays…

@mattjabishop DiResta in the NYT misinformation article: “So by Facebook suggesting all these accounts, they were essentially creating this vortex in which conspiratorial ideas can just breed and multiply,” #LIS651

Interesting. TripAdvisor to label sites with badges when discrimination or sexual assault has been reported. Social media for change. #LIS651 twitter.com/nytimes/status…

As we search for truth from the information from the data...The farther we get from the source, the answers get complicated. #LIS651

@LMenachemi "for their purposes." Enough said. #LIS651

"so many anti-competitive practices that you’ve seen these platforms engage in"  bloom.bg/2AAxOes Al Franken on algorithms. #LIS651

A reminder that there is nothing static about the algorithm process. Always learning from our online behavior #LIS651

@RobinMPratt @chrisalensula Wow, A terrifying problem with a terrifying solution. #LIS651

@micaelady21 And as we have seen, it doesn't stay balanced. The paid proprietary "half" evolves to dominate. #LIS651

Interesting idea to think about the power of perceptions and blurred realities in social media. Baym and Boyd. #LIS651

Tufekci: the authoritarianism that could emerge will not be "1984." It will operate by manipulating our desires and our consent. #lis651

Tufekci: The commercial and surveiling advertising online infrastructure we have built is well suited to authoritarianism. #lis651