OneZero
Claims Antifa Embedded in Capitol Riots Come From a Deeply Unreliable Facial Recognition Company
3 min · · XRVision also has a track record of spreading conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden · Shared by 33, including Christopher Mims 🤌, rogerverhoeven, Mark Kaigwa, Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️
WIRED
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection
3 min · · Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have spent years fomenting and enabling yesterday's violence at the Capitol. Policymakers need to do something about it. · Shared by 191, including Steve Silberman, Tom Connor, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gabriele, luis antónio santos, Matteo Furia, rogerverhoeven, Amicitia, Backchannel, Morten Gade, Deborah Blum, Zephyr Teachout, Karen K. Ho, Scott Galloway
The New Republic
The Corporations Funding the End of Democracy
5 min · · The GOP’s efforts to undermine our elections did not begin this week, and they were heavily subsidized by some of America’s best-known firms. · Shared by 77, including Laurie Penny, Matt Brennan, Katie Benner, Mo Ryan, rogerverhoeven, Bill Johnston, Ceferino Díaz, The Brick House
Dropbox
Dropbox Paper
1 min · · NOTES / HOME 👋 Intro Hello! I’m . Welcome to my super rough notes. My personal website with ever-so-slightly more organized thoughts is over at notes.busterbenson. · Shared by 17, including rogerverhoeven
Data & Society
Points
· Points is the blog of Data & Society Research Institute. · Shared by 21, including rogerverhoeven
Data & Society
Home Intro
1 min · · Data & Society is an NYC-based think/do tank focused on social, cultural, and ethical issues arising from data-centric technological development. · Shared by 31, including Lluís Codina, rogerverhoeven
EFF
The U.S. Government Is Targeting Cryptocurrency to Expand the Reach of Its Financial Surveillance
3 min · · One of the most important aspects of cryptocurrencies from a civil liberties perspective is that they can provide privacy protections for their users. But EFF is concerned that the U.S. government has… · Shared by 113, including notsofast, rogerverhoeven, Erik Voorhees, CyberCodeTwins, Chris Burniske, Neeraj K Agrawal, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Meltem Demirors
OneZero
Parler Users Are Gathering on Facebook to Complain About Parler
5 min · · ‘Seeming more like social solitude than social networking so far’ · Shared by 46, including Matt Navarra, rogerverhoeven
FiveThirtyEight
The 40 Weirdest (And Best) Charts We Made In This Long, Strange Year
3 min · · Over the course of 2020, FiveThirtyEight’s visual journalists covered a historic election, an unprecedented year in sports, a raging pandemic and an economy in … · Shared by 98, including Tom Connor, Marie-José Kolly, Julia Wolfe, Kenneth Field, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, rogerverhoeven, Maarten Lambrechts @maarten@vis.social, Gisele Navarro, Nathaniel Rakich
The Verge
Instagram would be better off without Facebook
6 min · · The FTC’s antitrust suit gives Instagram a chance to thrive on its own. · Shared by 68, including rogerverhoeven, Matt Navarra, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mari Smith, Katja Evertz, Johannes Lenz
Nieman Lab
How much political news do people see on Facebook? I went inside 173 people’s feeds to find out » Nieman…
10 min · · October 2020 was one of the craziest news months in recent history, but you wouldn't know it by looking in people's Facebook feeds. · Shared by 49, including Nieman Reports, rogerverhoeven, Mark Little, Katja Evertz, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)
The New York Times
How Misinformation ‘Superspreaders’ Seed False Election Theories
5 min · · Researchers have found that a small group of social media accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of the false posts about voter fraud. · Shared by 125, including 💥 Katie Martell, Anita Leirfall, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Ted Coiné, Faik Ersoy, Tim, Judd Legum, Trey Tweets Into the Void, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Rand Fishkin, Dave Kellogg, Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon (see below), Mark Kaigwa, rogerverhoeven, niazakhan, John Koetsier
The New York Times
Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps
7 min · · Since the election, millions have migrated to alternative social media and media sites like Parler, Rumble and Newsmax. · Shared by 95, including Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), @JanWillemTulp@vis.social, Nir Eyal, luis antónio santos, Matt Navarra, Graham Roberts, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Steve Faktor, Katja Evertz, rogerverhoeven
CJR
Five Days of Facebook Fact-Checking
18+ min · · Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content—a realm within which Facebook is trying to establish a… · Shared by 113, including emily bell, rogerverhoeven, Katja Evertz, Tah Wesley 22, Gabriele, Mathew Ingram, Bill Johnston
The New York Times
How the New York Times Technology Teams Prepared for the 2020 Election
11+ min · · “We need a plan for everything, a backup plan for everything, and then an idea of what we should do if both of those plans fail.” · Shared by 33, including rogerverhoeven, Konrad Weber, Beni Buess, Times Open
HuffPost
Data Disappeared
15+ min · · Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed or distorted vast swaths of information vital to public life and safety. This is an account of the damage. · Shared by 58, including luis antónio santos, Mark Kaigwa, OM, Carl Zimmer, Esther Schindler, danah boyd, rogerverhoeven, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Brian Solis