CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Michael Anthony Bitoon / ...
Facebook docs detail issues with moderating non-English speech, leading to inflammatory language in Afghanistan, bans on common words in Palestine, and more
but Facebook doesn't have people who speak all those languages to adequately monitor for hate speech and harassment. https://www.cnn.com/... DK Shivakumar / @dkshivakumar : This is absolutely disturbi...
An examination of the 65GB of hacked data from Gab finds that only 1.5M of the total 4M+ Gab accounts in the repository have posted content to the site
Micah Lee / The Intercept : Tweets: @micahflee , @3r1ng , @3r1ng , @theintercept , @quinncy , @natsecgeek , and @3r1ng Tweets: Micah / @micahflee : Inside @getongab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Rig...
Facebook, others made demonstrable progress in combating misinformation during the midterms but the problem is not going away due to engagement-based algorithms
but only within the bounds of a core product and business model that inherently lend themselves to manipulation. http://slate.com/... http://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : A big question ...