The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works
from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction … Tweets: @ngrossman81 , @steve_vladeck , @jeffjarvis , @mschruers , @fernandorgallo , ...
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works
from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction … Tweets: @ngrossman81 , @steve_vladeck , @ericowensdc , @fernandorgallo , @jeffjarvis ...
Apple discontinues the iPod touch, leaving the device on sale “while supplies last” and ending the product line after debuting the original iPod in October 2001
iPod touch will be available while supplies last Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet : It's the end of the road for the iPod Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Apple discontinues the iPod after 20 years Ben Love...
A look at the decade long struggle to bring the script of Tulu, an Indian language, into Unicode, and the problem of keeping languages alive in the digital age
Varsha Bansal / Rest of World : Tweets: @xor , @restofworld , @mvzelenks , @restofworld , @restofworld , @cengizyar , @dlberes , @raju , @varshaabansal , and @restofworld Tweets: Parker Higgins / @xo...
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations
especially highlighting web pages that were part of IO campaigns (h/t @Graphika_NYC). Integrating context like this around the internet helps ensure public debate is resilient, authentic, and informed...
Most of Scots Wikipedia appears to be written by an American attempting a Scottish accent, not Scots, Scotland's official language; the user has 23K+ articles
not the Scots language—with misspellings to imitate a Scottish accent. https://www.vice.com/... Evan Greer / @evan_greer : Tbh it's just nice to know the internet can still be weird https://twitter.co...
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March
@ow https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @vivekxk : 1/5 Seems like the Giphy deal is strategically great for FB and probably gave Giphy the lifeline it needed. FB gets valuable intel...
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy's Shorenstein Center, where I am the director … Tweets: @aaronwall , @thedailybeast , @wrklsshrd ,...
Woman tried for 4 years to get Facebook to remove a business page someone created for her “butthole”; the company removed it only after BuzzFeed wrote about it
This is civic tech: Oh look, here comes UpLink … Tweets: Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : So this woman was 15 when someone created a Facebook business page dedicated to... her butthole. She spends ~4 year...
Imagining the future where regulations of social media platforms didn't end harassment, extremism, or disinformation, and only made the platforms stronger
The way we regulated social media platforms didn't end harassment, extremism or disinformation. It only gave them more power and made the problem worse. Tweets: @javierpallero , @dangillmor , @xor , ...