Tracking Social Media Bans - Center for Data Innovation: “Researchers at Surfshark, a cybersecurity company based in the Netherlands, have created a datasettracking governments that have imposed restrictions on Internet service or social media companies from 2015 to the present. For each restriction, the dataset contains the dates, duration, affected population, available context, and notes on the restricted platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Telegram, or Whatsapp.
The dataset also lists local restrictions in India and disputed territory Jammu and Kashmir, as well as instances of miscellaneous outages or restrictions, such as telecommunications disruptions in Ukraine.”
Writers who date other writers face a looming question: Will the other partner write about the relationships? »
Articles of Note
Jennifer Egan, Andrew Sean Greer, Elif Batuman — the literary world is awash in sequels Why »
New Books
The ghost of Cecil Chesterton. G.K. couldn't escape the influence of his younger brother, by all accounts a stinker »
Essays & Opinions
Isolation, loneliness, and a “friendship recession.” Robert Putnam was right to worry about the decline of social community »
What Would Plato Say About ChatGPT? New York Times
The Illustrated Transformer Jay Alamma
The Monitoring Role of Social Media
In this study, we examine whether social media activity can reduce corporate misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of 3G mobile broadband access across the United States to identify exogenous increases in social media activity and test whether access to 3G reduces misconduct. We find that facilities reduce violations by 1.8% and penalties by 13% following the introduction of 3G in a local area. To validate social media activity as the underlying mechanism, we show that 3G access results in sharp increases in Tweet volume and that facilities located in areas with high Tweet volume engage in less misconduct. The effect of 3G access on misconduct is stronger for facilities of more visible firms and concentrated in non-financial violations, such as those involving unsafe workplace conditions and inappropriate treatment of employees and customers. Overall, our results demonstrate that social media plays an important role in monitoring corporate misconduct.
Here is the full paper, from Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli at HBS, via the excellent Kevin Lewis.
