The Intercept
Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
20+ min · · Under the guise of counterterrorism, the government is accelerating pressure on social media companies to crack down on speech the feds deem disinformation. · Shared by 164, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matt Navarra, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Kai Biermann, Rick Powell, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Ridley, Benny Johnson, billy esquires, ACLU
commonsense.news
Free Bird: On Elon Musk and Twitter
6 min · · In more than a decade on Twitter, Walter Kirn watched as the platform manipulated reality in real-time. Now? ‘Let the wild rumpus begin.’ · Shared by 16, including Tara Imani, AIA, Matt Taibbi, Rick Powell
The Intercept
By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Has Created His Own Hilarious Nightmare
5 min · · Musk will likely ruin Twitter for one specific user: himself. · Shared by 87, including Ashoka Mukpo, Rick Powell, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Michael Seemann, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷
queermajority.com
The Soft Bigotry of Algorithmic Moderation — Queer Majority
7 min · · Our algorithmic hall monitors are ushering in a new golden age of conformity. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
The Atlantic
The Decay of Twitter
20+ min · · The social network fundamentally changed in early 2014. And that’s causing big problems for the company. · Shared by 126, including Michael Robinson, Benoît Perrier, Mark Kaigwa, Alex Barrera, ThomNagy, Richard MacManus, julian 🚮✨, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Claudia Sommer, Serge K. Keller ❦, Dominik Grolimund, Rick Powell, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Kim Dik, Mike Butcher, Mihai M, Luzius Meisser, Sara Usinger, Florian Hanke 🍎
Science Magazine
Studying—and fighting—misinformation should be a top scientific priority, biologist argues
13+ min · · Carl Bergstom looks at “bullshit” on social media through an evolutionary lens · Shared by 84, including Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Mathew Ingram, Carl T. Bergstrom, Carlos del Rio, Jon Cohen, Kai Kupferschmidt, News from Science, Martin Enserink, Reto Knutti, Roger Highfield
The Intercept
How CNN, the New York Times, and Other Major Media Outlets Monetize Your Data and Lobby Against Regulation
9 min · · The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible. · Shared by 76, including emily bell, emma best @NatSecGeek@kolektiva.social 🏳️🌈🏴, Rick Powell, Mathew Ingram
The New York Times
Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.
4 min · · Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Australian artist found herself blocked, with seemingly no recourse, from an account documenting nearly a decade of her life and work. · Shared by 232, including Mike Rundle, TonyParisi.eth, Craig Brown, PhD, Rick Powell, Richard Gutjahr, News18, Christopher Lauer™, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Matt Navarra, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Robert Rose, Ekaterina Walter
The New York Times
Opinion | We’re Longing for the One Thing the Metaverse Can’t Give Us
4 min · · After struggling with anorexia and bulimia for more than 20 years, the last thing I want is technology that further estranges me from my body. · Shared by 144, including Claudia Sommer, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Prof. Sally Eaves, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Rick Powell, Nicolas Babin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Scott Galloway, Dennis Schvejda
Gizmodo
We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How
4 min · · Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak. · Shared by 120, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Fabio Chiusi, Andrzej Jóźwik, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rick Powell, Bjorn Larsen, Tactical Tech
The Atlantic
Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole
9 min · · I set up a new Facebook account with the most generic interests possible, and wound up in a place no one should ever have to go. · Shared by 61, including Gisele Navarro, Casey Newton, Jeff Atwood, Tactical Tech, Rick Powell
MIT Technology Review
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
3 min · · The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world. · Shared by 854, including Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Andrew Hutchinson, Mark Kaigwa, Harry Briggs, Mark Little, Karen K. Ho, @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Nicolas Babin, Gerd Leonhard, Tactical Tech, Deborah Blum, Abeba Birhane, Gabriele, Mathew Ingram, Jeff Atwood, Bill Johnston
TechCrunch
Facebook continuing to surveil teens for ads, says report
7 min · · The adtech giant formerly known as Facebook is still tracking teens for ad targeting on its social media platforms, according to new research by Fairplay, Global Action Plan and Reset Australia —… · Shared by 85, including James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Scott Monty, Rick Powell, Sam Maule, Jon Loomer, Bjorn Larsen
Input
How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet
5 min · · The social media site is the bane of non-users’ lives, hijacking image search results with a pushy sign-up screen. It needs to stop. · Shared by 147, including Ed Zitron, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Alexandra Lange, Rick Powell, Austin Kleon
The Washington Post
Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed
8 min · · A new legislative push to regulate social media algorithms — the sophisticated, personalized software that decides which posts you see each time you log in — raises an old question: Why don’t social networks such as Facebook simply let you turn them off? · Shared by 183, including Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Mark Little, Mari Smith, Carolina A. Miranda, Michael (मुकेश), Andrzej Jóźwik, Matt Navarra, Rick Powell
The Washington Post
Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation
10 min · · Facebook engineers gave extra value to emoji reactions, including "angry," pushing more emotional and provocative content into users’ news feeds. · Shared by 370, including Rich Miner, @augieray@mastodon.social, Michael (मुकेश), Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Carl T. Bergstrom, Andy Budd, Mathew Ingram, Cristina Tardáguila, Cat Zakrzewski, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., David Meerman Scott, Steve Silberman, Jon Loomer, Barry Ritholtz, Jessica Valenti, Bethany Brookshire, Christopher Mims 🤌, Liz Plank (SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK), Brian Roemmele, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer