Podcast 07.12.2023 2 min. read Audio Image Worried about your health? Facebook won’t let you forget. Facebook competes for users’ attention by exploiting its knowledge of their anxieties and weaknesses, and the buttons which are supposed to hide unwanted content do not work as they promise. A new study by the Panoptykon Foundation led by Piotr Sapieżyński, PhD, of Northeastern University (Boston) has been released. Listen, add to your favourite app using a RSS link or listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Podcasts and YouTubie. How to check Facebook Ads Interest List? Mobile: Click on your profile picture to see a menu. Select Settings & privacy to access your Privacy Center. Click the tile that says You have options to manage the ads you see on Facebook. Next, if you click Review ad preferences, a window will pop up. Choose Facebook and Messenger off a list of apps, and a menu for your ad preferences will appear in a new tab. Click to access your Ad topics, and another pop-up window finally takes you where you want to be. Done! This episode of Panoptykon 4.0 featured: the case study subject – “Joanna” read by Tanya O’Carroll; psychologist and therapist – Joanna Flis; algorithm researcher – PhD Piotr Sapieżyński; the President of the Panoptykon Foundation – Katarzyna Szymielewicz; the script was written by Matylda Grodecka; script editing and production – Maria Wróblewska; content supervision – Dorota Głowacka; expert consultation – Magdalena Birecka; sound editing and post-production – Jarek Gawlik; promotion – Dominika Chachuła, Aleksandra Iwańska and Anna Obem; read by Daniel Stawczyk. Audio file Maria Wróblewska Author Image Działania organizacji w latach 2022-24 dofinansowane z Funduszy Norweskich w ramach programu Aktywni Obywatele – Fundusz Krajowy. Topic social media new digital world algorithms See also Article Scroll more, sleep less. A Black Mirror-inspired truck in Warsaw advertises a disturbing social network... that doesn’t exist “Our algorithm will suck you in”, “Scroll more, sleep less”. These are slogans from a “new, revolutionary social platform” Vlop!, being advertised on a mysterious, Black Mirror-like LED truck, cruising the Polish capital city. In reality, the platform does not exist, and was made up as part of a… 31.08.2023 Text Article Can the EU Digital Services Act contest the power of Big Tech’s algorithms? A progressive report on the Digital Services Act (DSA) adopted by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in the European Parliament in July is the first major improvement of the draft law presented by the European Commission in December. MEPs expressed support for default… 03.08.2021 Text Article Who will not be blocked by Facebook? SIN wins the first court battle The District Court in Warsaw (Appellate Division) upheld its interim measures ruling from 2019 in which it temporarily prohibited Facebook from removing fan pages, run by the Polish NGO “SIN”, on Facebook and Instagram, as well as from blocking individual posts. This means that – until the case is… 14.07.2021 Text