Q&A with ex-Facebook CSO and Stanford Internet Observatory professor Alex Stamos on overestimating mis- and disinformation's impact, Brazil, Gamergate, and more
“Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos. Tweets: @pkafka , @chrisabraham , @pkafka , and @mattnavarra Tweets: Peter Kafka / @pkafka : We've gotten too worried about misinformation - and not nearly worried enough about groups using social media to harass and silence people, says former Facebook security boss @alexstamos. Excerpt here: https://www.vox.com/... Full conversation: https://podcasts.apple.com/... https://twitter.com/... Chris Abraham / @chrisabraham : Are we too worried about misinformation? >"Resist trying to make things better": A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos. https://www.vox.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : Also discussed: *Elon's real-time experiment: what happens if you remove almost all moderation from a social network? *Why Facebook et al won't provide transparency about moderation. *Why platforms should “resist making things better.” Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Are we *too* worried about misinformation? A great, informative discussion between @pkafka and @alexstamos on this much written about topic https://www.vox.com/... Expand More For Next Unexpand More For Next
We've gotten too worried about misinformation - and not nearly worried enough about groups using social media to harass and silence people, says former Facebook security boss @alexstamos. Excerpt here: https://www.vox.com/... Full conversation: https://podcasts.apple.com/... http…
Are we too worried about misinformation? >"Resist trying to make things better": A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos. https://www.vox.com/...
Also discussed: *Elon's real-time experiment: what happens if you remove almost all moderation from a social network? *Why Facebook et al won't provide transparency about moderation. *Why platforms should “resist making things better.”
Are we *too* worried about misinformation? A great, informative discussion between @pkafka and @alexstamos on this much written about topic https://www.vox.com/...
“...there was a massive overestimation of the capability of mis- and disinformation to change people's minds — of its actual persuasive power.” - @alexstamos with @pkafka https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Important piece from @drewharwell, @Cat_Zakrzewski and @viaCristiano- they report the Jan 6 committee avoided detailed discussion of the role of social media in its final report for fear of offending Republicans and tech companies, per sources. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Congress found “tech platforms—especially Twitter—failed to heed their own employees' warnings about violent rhetoric on their platforms and bent their rules to avoid penalizing conservatives, particularly then-president Trump, out of fear of reprisals.” https://www.washingtonpos…
Seems like there may be more material in the Twitter Files that Elon and Matt are not very interested in. “ ... Twitter was terrified of the backlash they would get if they followed their own rules and applied them to Donald Trump,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
"" ... Twitter was terrified of the backlash they would get if they followed their own rules and applied them to Donald Trump," said one former employee, who testified to the committee under the pseudonym J. Johnson."
“But in the end, committee leaders declined to delve into those topics in detail in their final report, reluctant to dig into the roots of domestic extremism taking hold in the Republican Party beyond former president Donald Trump” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...