2023-01-23
“Musk plays a role not just by loosening speech policies and slashing moderation staffing but through personal choices in his interactions, researchers say.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Researchers and ex-Twitter staff: physical attacks in the US track with Twitter spikes in some hate speech, notably anti-Semitic and anti-gay slurs and rhetoric
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
2022-10-31
“Longtime Musk associates David Sacks and Jason Calcanis appeared in a company directory over the weekend, according to photos obtained by The Washington Post.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's workforce in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety
The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce — SAN FRANCISCO …
2022-09-19
DHS to Spend Almost $700,000 Investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’ Lol roughly 3-4 years after some of us noticed ops crittering around this space. Also an ironic in context reminder: “World of Tanks” is a Russian video game https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
The US DHS awards a $699,763 grant to researchers to develop best practices and resources for monitoring and evaluating extremist activities in game communities
2022-09-18
DHS to Spend Almost $700,000 Investigating ‘Radicalization in Gaming’ Lol roughly 3-4 years after some of us noticed ops crittering around this space. Also an ironic in context reminder: “World of Tanks” is a Russian video game https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
The DHS has awarded a ~$700K grant to researchers to develop best practices and resources for monitoring and evaluating extremist activities in game communities
Several groups are coming together to study the little understood phenomenon. — Matthew Gault
2022-03-02
All it took were missiles into a major European capital: Facebook has stopped recommending Russian state media globally https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
MacRumors
Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine
Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …
All it took were missiles into a major European capital: Facebook has stopped recommending Russian state media globally https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
Protocol
Meta will demote content linking to Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram globally and rolls out encrypted Instagram DMs in Ukraine and Russia
a rate of 1.3 billion views a day, or 928,000 views a minute https://www.wired.com/... Aisha S Gani / @aishagani : Wonder what message this gives to the Rohingya and Ethiopians who...
2020-03-01
Where this road leads will make Cambridge Analytica feel like child's play. https://twitter.com/...
BuzzFeed News
Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers
BuzzFeed News :
2020-02-29
Where this road leads will make Cambridge Analytica feel like child's play. https://twitter.com/...
BuzzFeed News
Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers
Apple has disabled the iOS application of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database …