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If you are a podcast lover, please notice that audio content is highlighted in blue, while if you prefer to watch to talks or documentaries, look for what is highlighted in red

General

• Check out the Center for Humane Technology’s website and its podcast, Your Undivided Attention.
• Delete Facebook is the main website you want to refer to. Keep in mind that both Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Facebook.
• quitfacebook.org, a website which is something like this page: a list of links to resources
• quit.social, a website to train yourself not to visit social media. Currently working on merging it with this website.
• Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide”, an article by Kev Quirk

Documentaries

• The Great Hack, a documentary on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and much more.
• The Social Dilemma, a documentary on the risks and threats of Social Media

Books

• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, a book by the legendary Jaron Lanier
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, a book by Shoshana Zuboff

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Solutions and alternatives

• What is RSS?, a YouTube video
• What is RSS, an article
• RSS on Wikipedia (or, even better, Web feed on Wikipedia)
• RSS before Social Media, a very interesting YouTube video to watch: it shows how before the diffusion of Social Media RSS really was the best way to stay updated.
• Nitter is a Twitter proxy which allows to suubscribe to profiles’ RSS feeds, too
• Bibliogram, an Instagram proxy
• Teddit, a Reddit proxy
• Invidious, a YouTube proxy (note: the main Invidious instance shut down few months ago. From the homepage linked before, you can choose other instances, I use https://yewtu.be)
• Privacy Redirect is a very cool extension which automatically converts links containing the original URLs of the services to their correspondent proxy websites. For example, if I wanted to go to https://twitter.com/xplosionmind, I’d be redirected to https://nitter.net/xplosionmind.
• Mastodon, with more than four active million users all around the world, is by far the most popular and developed one; its structure and functioning make it very similar to Twitter.
• Pixelfed is almost identical to Instagram. It has stories, too!
• Friendica it something like Facebook.
• PeerTube is a great paltform built by the French Framasoft. As the name suggests, it's like YouTube, but it relies on peer-to-peer video sharing to avoid stressing the servers which host the existing instances.
• Alternative Social Networks, the section of the Alternative Internet GitHub repository by Redecentralize
• Creating Decentralized Social Media Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter by Robert W. Gehl on The Reboot
• Redecentralize blog, an independent, volunteer-driven organisation promoting the decentralisation of our digital technology.
• Internet of People
• runyourown.social
• Get a Website Now! Don't be a Web Peasant!, a YouTube video by Luke Smith
• Living without Social Media, a TED Talk by dr. Cal Newport
• Together, we can rebuild the system, on the website of the Center for Humane Technology
• My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network, by Carter Sande
• Okuna, an ethical social network for a brighter tomorrow.
• How did your life change after quitting social media? question on Quora

What

• Social Media statistics: active users, revenue, data about the main Social Media platforms
• Facebook ads library, look for ads and advertisers

Anger

Hate

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• Content Moderation on the Fediverse vs on Big Social media, a video by Derek Caelin on conf.tube
• Bodies in seats, by Casey Newton on The Verge
• Facebook can’t fix itself, an article by Andrew Marantz on The New Yorker
• Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive, an article on The Wall Street Journal
• Facebook admits it was used to 'incite offline violence' in Myanmar on BBC News
• YouTube’s algorithm seems to be funneling people to alt-right videos on MIT Technology Review
• Why the right wing has a massive advantage on Facebook on Politico
• A Decade After the Arab Spring, Platforms Have Turned Their Backs on Critical Voices in the Middle East and North Africa

Polarization

• How Facebook profits from polarization, a TED Talk by Yael Eisenstat
• Facebook Can’t Fix what it won’t admit to by Steven Levy on Wired
• Exposure to opposing views on social media canincrease political polarization, a paper by Christopher A. Baila,b,c,1, Brian Guaya,d,2, Emily Maloneya,b,2, Aidan Combsa,b, D. Sunshine Hillygusa,c,d,Friedolin Merhouta,e, Deen Freelonf, and Alexander Volfovskya

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Misinformation

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• How to save Facebook from democracy, by Francis Fukuyama, Barak Richman, and Ashish Goel on Foreign Affairs
• Don’t Blame Section 230 for Big Tech’s Failures. Blame Big Tech. by Elliot Harmon on EFF
• Control, Stifle, Censor: Social Media’s Toxic Double-Edged Policies by Jillian C. York on The Reboot
• Mark Zuckerberg Is an Arbiter of Truth—Whether He Likes It or Not, by Steven Levy on WIRED

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Bubble

• Silicon Valley Pretends That Algorithmic Bias Is Accidental. It’s Not., by Amber M. Hamilton on Slate

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Quality

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Addiction

• An Exploratory Study of Gambling Operators’ Use of Social Media and the Latent Messages Conveyed

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Distraction

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Data

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Profilation

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• How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, by Cory Doctorow
• Twenty years of surveillance marketing, by Bruce Sterling on Wired
• The Cambridge Analytica Story, Explained, by WIRED
• Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy, a TED Talk by Carole Cadwalladr
• How Surveillance Advertising Seized Our Data and Hijacked the Web by Matthew Crain on The Reboot
• How Social Media tracking works, a Twitter thread by Robert G. Reeve

Monopolization

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• Facebook is a social network monopoly that buys, copies or kills competitors, antitrust committee finds, by Salvador Rodriguez on CNBC
• The end of the Facebook crime spree, by Matt Stoller
• Behind Washington’s one-eighty on Facebook: A rethink of monopoly power, an article by Leah Nylen on Politico
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Sociality

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Standardization

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Content ownership

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Hurry

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Simplicity vs simplification

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Being always connected

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Environment

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Closed

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Being used

• Who does that server really serve?, by Richard Stallman on GNU.org

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