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What Facebook users want

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23 Feb 2009

What Facebook's Users Want In The Next Terms Of Service.

Facebook says it's got a new Terms of Service in the works, with feedback from its user community in mind. Cue the community coming up with its own Bill of Rights containing things it things Facebook needs to take notice of. Follows on nicely from my post about user control this weekend; user control is exactly what they want.

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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

"Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers." Increasingly, incentive structures are asking them to.

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The open web isn't dying. We're killing it

Julien Genestoux thinks the open web needs netizens. I agree – and in 2026, that's indistinguishable from citizenry.

02 Apr 2026

An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work

"Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos."

02 Apr 2026
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