Posts Tagged "dark patterns"

Facebook claims it will do something about fake news… yet it keeps stumbling. Let’s start with the end of this story: Facebook will not do anything about fake news any time soon. They can’t. It would cut their bottom line and probably subscribership more than they can handle. Let’s imagine that Facebook starts blocking verifiably […]

When 2018 started, I’d had enough of Facebook… but I didn’t want to feel like I was abandoning friends. I had whittled my personal account down to about 90 friends who I care about. So I decided I’d go weekly to check in on everybody. By mid-March, I’d really had it, especially with things I […]

Facebook created a Page for one of my websites. Then pushed me to claim it as mine. Sure, yes that’s mine. Then published the page. No I don’t want that. I don’t plan to stay here long. I’m not pushing this Page to anybody. I guess I’ll go delete this page. No, you have to […]