Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland”
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.” Bluesky: @jonayariley , @jimllmixit , @dankenne...
Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights the shift toward a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag : Threads: @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @stuartathompsonnyt , @taylorlorenz , @robbiekirshner , and @taylorlorenz Mastodon: @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social a...
Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights a shift towards a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum
Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism Threads: @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @robbiekirshner , @taylorl...
Supporters of Israel are using apps to mass report pro-Palestinian content online, raising questions for tech platforms over “citizen-led propaganda” campaigns
which is not actually real.https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Eileen Clancy / @clancynewyork : This level of organization only exists on one side of the conflict," said Emerson T. Brooking...[of] Dig...
Kids are attending virtual pro-Palestine protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war; one virtual protest area has been visited 275K+ times
- Kids are attending virtual pro-Palestine protests on Roblox in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, and so far, one virtual protest area has been visited more than 275,000 times. Mastodon: @carnage4lif...
Adam Mosseri says Threads' blocking of “Covid” and related terms is temporary and will be lifted in “weeks or months”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Threads: @mosseri , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz . Bluesky: @annatarkov.bsky.social Threads: Adam Mosseri / @mosseri : Weeks or months, let me look int...
Some Twitter services are down including t.co links, images, and TweetDeck, producing the error “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint”
Links are completely busted on Twitter at the minute across the company's website and mobile apps. Tweets: @daveleeft , @taylorlorenz , @khurtizz , @dannyjpalmer , @kwestin , @mcwm , @carnage4life , @...
Some US students say hiring managers and college admissions officers are holding their social media content around subjects like mental health against them
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post : Tweets: @marshacollier , @kari_paul , @mattnavarra , @washingtonpost , @taylorlorenz , and @tatum_hunter_ Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier : TikTok loves true ...
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
Study says LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 20M users from 2015 to 2019, may have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @joshelman , @martinsfp , @ca...