Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Facebook’s Problems Aren’t Only in Washington (Foreign Policy)
- Facebook Will Not Fix Itself (Time Magazine)
- Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show (Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook says it will add new safety features, notably for teens on Instagram (CNBC)
- Whistleblower Frances Haugen will meet with Facebook Oversight Board (CNN)
- Israel eyes making Facebook legally liable for content on its platform (The Times of Israel)
- Facebook is under new scrutiny for it’s role in Ethiopia’s conflict (NPR)
- The disinformation age: a revolution in propaganda (The Guardian)
- What’s stunning about the misinformation trend — and how to fix it (CNN Opinion)
Some light reading- Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville