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  Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen stirred up a lot of trouble for her former company with her recent appearance on Capital Hill. A vivid picture of Facebook's internal culture came to light in her recent testimony. One of the more disturbing revelations was that the angry emoji reportedly carried five times more weight in the Facebook algorithm than the like button.

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• Data Transfer Project

  The Data Transfer Project wants to make it easier to move your data between social media sites.

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  This month, we who follow such things marked the passing of Unicorn Rides, a scooter vendor that billed itself as "the magical electric scooter to get where you're going." Their slogan needed some work ("get where you're going" being both tautological and overused), but the concept had some promise.

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• diaspora*

  You don't need Facebook to keep up with your friends online. With diaspora*, you get a similar experience without the spying.

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  For the most popular social media platform in the world, Facebook certainly is taking a lot of heat. In 2016, they were an unwitting vehicle for manipulative ads from foreign powers, echoing and amplifying false narratives in the US presidential election, then later in Brexit and other elections around the globe.

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