{"id":3974,"date":"2024-05-06T22:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:29:35","slug":"associate-professor-ethan-zuckerman-is-suing-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/2024\/05\/06\/associate-professor-ethan-zuckerman-is-suing-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Ethan Zuckerman is Suing Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3974\" class=\"elementor elementor-3974\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-37d9f86 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"37d9f86\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f063aa1\" data-id=\"f063aa1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efcb745 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"efcb745\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-6.17.05\u202fPM-600x600.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-3976\" alt=\"Picture from NYT Op Ed Piece on Ethan Zuckerman Suing Meta\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-6.17.05\u202fPM-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-6.17.05\u202fPM-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-6.17.05\u202fPM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-6.17.05\u202fPM-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/pit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-06-at-6.17.05\u202fPM.png 1426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Emma Erickson<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-230d236 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"230d236\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', 'Fira Sans', Ubuntu, Oxygen, 'Oxygen Sans', Cantarell, 'Droid Sans', 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400\">Ethan Zuckerman, associate professor of public policy, communication and information and director of the UMass Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, writes that despite liking Facebook, he is suing the platform\u2019s parent company, Meta, in an effort to ensure that users have more control over what appears on their feeds. He says his lab at UMass Amherst has developed a tool they call Unfollow Everything 2.0, with the goal \u201cto let users pick the algorithms that filter out the content they don\u2019t want to see and select content that interests them, rather than giving this power to platforms like Facebook.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95e8002 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"95e8002\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/05\/opinion\/facebook-court-internet-meta.html\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span 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