In an attempt to hold what was once an experimental viral-content lab to higher standards of conduct, BuzzFeed has published a new comprehensive standards and ethical guidelines document that tells staff… Read more »
The headline du jour for the Federal Trade Commission’s report on the Internet of Things is that the agency recommends Congress should come up with some sort of technology-neutral law to… Read more »
Vox recently ran an experiment in which it got writers to update or re-write old posts and then published them again, and pulled in many new readers — but should it… Read more »
Uber has just responded to a group of Change.org petitioners protesting Uber’s background check policies in India, following the alleged rape of a passenger by a driver with an assault record. After… Read more »
The Samaritans suicide prevention charity in the U.K. has suspended its controversial Samaritans Radar Twitter app, which scanned the tweets of people that subscribers follow, in order to find signs of… Read more »
Part of BuzzFeed’s challenge as it evolves into a major media entity is to somehow marry its experimental nature with its broader journalistic ambitions, and the deletion of thousands of old… Read more »
Facebook is constantly experimenting on its users by tweaking the newsfeed in both large and small ways, a former member of the company’s data science team confirms, and some of the… Read more »
ReservationHop is just the latest startup idea to trigger a firestorm of criticism from those who see its service as unethical. Just because a financial opportunity might exist in a particular… Read more »
Facebook(s fb)’s emotional manipulation study has shocked many people for its apparent breach of research ethics (700,000 subjects had no idea they were being manipulated), and it has raised the alarm… Read more »