Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company

 Motherboard, here. 

How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook

 The Markup, here. 

Düsseldorf Court of Appeal Revokes Antitrust Authority's Data Processing Prohibition for Facebook

CR Online, here. 

Konzern liest mit: Facebook trackt Nutzer auf drei Viertel aller deutschen Nachrichtenseiten

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Mark Zuckerberg has to go. Here are 25 reasons why

The Guardian, here. 

How Facebook’s P.R. Firm Brought Political Trickery to Tech

NyTimes, here. 

BIG DATA AND COMPETITION POLICY

A. Claici, here, pp. 423-457.

John Oliver explains how Facebook is wreaking havoc overseas

Vox, here. 

Novos Trustes Na Era Digital: Efeitos Anticompetitivos Do Uso De Dados Pessoais Pelo Facebook

J. Krein, aqui. 

I TRIED LEAVING FACEBOOK. I COULDN’T

S. Jeong, here. 

Facebook’s data collection in Germany caught in antitrust spotlight

MLex Podcast, here. 

Germany threatens curbs on Facebook’s data use

Ft, here.

Facebook has...questioned the timing of the German authorities’ move, months before the EU implements its General Data Protection Regulation, a law that introduces sweeping data protection rules. Under the GDPR, businesses must give customers more information about which companies their data are shared with and to what end. “With the GDPR, Europe is already putting in place strong enforcement measures that hold Facebook and other companies accountable for privacy and data protection,” Facebook said. “We will comply with these new rules, just as we have complied with existing data protection law in Europe.”

Monologue of the Algorithm: how Facebook turns users data into its profit

Panoptykon Foundation, Video here. 

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google should be broken up

                                                                                  S. Galloway, Video here. 

Facebook will help some users figure out if they saw Russian propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Recode, here. 

Facebook investor says he wants the company to contact everyone who saw fake news during the election

CNBC, here. 

Who’s responsible for what happens on Facebook? Analysis of a new ECJ opinion

L. Woods, here.

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Gizmodo, here. 

#gruesseausmoskau

Süddeutsche Zeitung, hier. 

Tech on the Hill: Five takeaways from the first of three hearings this week.

Recode, here.