Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, April 5th, 2018. Today, Zuckerberg's Q&A with reporters, possible social media regulations, Trump may hate Amazon,

but Uncle Sam sure seems to love them, a dreaded 51% attack in crypto, and a new home for movie phone.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. As I mentioned briefly yesterday, Facebook made a lot of changes yesterday

Facebook made a lot of changes yesterday afternoon,

primarily to their developer and app platform. These changes were so

drastic that in his overnight newsletter Owen Williams said it essentially

marked the death of the Facebook platform as we know it.

Going forward, the Events API is in near full lockdown.

Facebook will manually approve all apps.

The Groups API also requires

manual Facebook approval, as well as data review

by a group administrator.

Apps won't be allowed to see members of groups anymore and Facebook login will no longer share data related to religious views political affiliation relationship status

Custom friends lists education and work history among a slew of other things.

App developers will also be blocked from requesting data from people who have ceased using a given app on a regular basis and as hinted over the last several

days the Instagram API is locking down several data sets and features as well.

Now the idea that this is the end of the Facebook platform might be a slight exaggeration.

Developers can still get a ton of information about Facebook's users, and Facebook is still collecting data about you for itself of course.

But it does seem that Facebook wants to move more toward the model that Apple has used for

years with its App Store, manual approvals of apps, more restriction on data collected, and crucially more robust monitoring of the whole process.

But the fact that this new regime is a somewhat drastic change from the past was demonstrated last night by the fact that

Dating app Tinder was down for several hours last night because the changes to Facebook login prevented users from signing into the app.

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