--- title: Five Best: Facebook Is Hurting Innovation description: Is Facebook hurting innovation, Europe took action on the cyber threat to democracy and more. canonical: https://time.com/5003666/facebook-is-hurting-innovation/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-31T16:00:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:22.415Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Facebook Is Hurting Innovation og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5003666/facebook-is-hurting-innovation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Facebook Is Hurting Innovation twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Facebook Is Hurting Innovation by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 31, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 31, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1.**[**Is Facebook killing all the future Facebooks — and hurting innovation?**](https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-aggressive-moves-on-startups-threaten-innovation/) By Erin Griffith in _Wired_ **2\.** [**Europe took action on the cyber threat to democracy. The U.S. needs to catch up.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/opinions/facebook-congress-russia-threat-chen-opinion/index.html) By Lanhee J. Chen at _CNN_ **3\.** [**What if we could spot suicidal tendencies from a brain scan?**](https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609278/ai-has-learned-to-spot-suicidal-tendencies-from-brain-scans/) By Jackie Snow in _MIT Technology Review_ **4\.** [**For some students, online learning doesn’t click.**](https://www.brookings.edu/research/who-should-take-online-courses/) By Susan M. Dynarski at the _Brookings Institution_ **5\.** [**The way we create the flu vaccine may be making it less effective.**](http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2017/20171030wilson.html) By the _Scripps Research Institute_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5003666/facebook-is-hurting-innovation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5003666/facebook-is-hurting-innovation/"},"headline":"Facebook Is Hurting Innovation","datePublished":"2017-10-31T16:00:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:22.415Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5003666/facebook-is-hurting-innovation/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Suicide","Innovation","Education","facebook","democracy","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5003666/facebook-is-hurting-innovation/","name":"Facebook Is Hurting Innovation"}}]}] ```