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Carl T. Bergstrom

@ct_bergstrom
37 posts
2022-12-06
Wait, what? (From Reuters: Musk's Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests) https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-06 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the US Department of Agriculture is investigating Neuralink for potential animal welfare violations after staff complaints over rushed animal testing

Elon Musk's Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid …

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If this is true, and not just someone weaseling out of answering the question, this looks to me like Theranos-level buffoonery. Imagine the research report. “In this study, we implanted devices in n=some mice and at least a couple of ducks to establish a safety profile.”
2022-12-06 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the US Department of Agriculture is investigating Neuralink for potential animal welfare violations after staff complaints over rushed animal testing

Elon Musk's Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid …

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2022-12-01
OK it's not going to put https://www.philosophybro.com/ out of business but this is pretty good from OpenAI. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-01 View on X
MIT Technology Review

OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more

A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original.  But it's still not perfect.

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2022-11-29
My guess is that Musk is trying to manufacture a feud with Apple so he can claim retaliation when the twitter app is removed from the app store for violating Apple's TOS. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-29 View on X
MacRumors

Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship

Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

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2021-08-04
We need to know what social media companies are doing and where they are leaving the back door open to nefarious actors. They are becoming increasingly resistant to any sort of scrutiny or forensic analysis. Does @facebookapp have an explanation for this latest? https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations

- Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data  — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October Source: About Facebook .

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2021-07-20
More bullshit from Facebook. Just “supported by the facts” line is mighty convenient when you are in sole possession of the information needed to ascertian them. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-20 View on X
New York Times

Sources: a group of Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure COVID misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request

The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.

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All I've seen by way of focus on outcomes is Guy Rosen's lazy comparison between absolute rates in facebook users and non-users. No causal inference, not even an effort to find adequate comparison groups. Facebook has some of the best data scientists in the world and we get this? https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-20 View on X
New York Times

Sources: a group of Facebook data scientists asked for resources to measure COVID misinfo on Facebook at the start of the pandemic, but execs denied the request

The company doesn't know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network.

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2021-07-19
The fact that the fraction of facebook users who express positive attitudes toward vaccination is larger than the fraction of Americans who have actually been vaccinated—this tells us nothing about the direction of facebook's impact on vaccination.
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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Facebook concludes by asking to be praised for putting bandaid on the gaping wound they created. Don't fall for it. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
About Facebook

Facebook says their data shows a 50% decline in vaccine hesitancy among US users, refuting Biden's claim that it's “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 misinfo

At a time when COVID-19 cases are rising in America, the Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies.

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3. Q: Where does a company find a VP of Integrity, anyway? A: You hire the cofounder and CEO of the spyware company (masquerading as a privacy-promoting service) that you acquired and used to collect information on competitors until you were exposed. https://news.ycombinator.com/ ...
2021-07-19 View on X
About Facebook

Facebook says their data shows a 50% decline in vaccine hesitancy among US users, refuting Biden's claim that it's “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 misinfo

At a time when COVID-19 cases are rising in America, the Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies.

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“Lots of people viewed true information on facebook.” Lots of people viewed disinformation, too Without knowing how many we can't possibly work out the balance sheet to know whether facebook helped or hurt. Problem is, only facebook has that information. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
About Facebook

Facebook says their data shows a 50% decline in vaccine hesitancy among US users, refuting Biden's claim that it's “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 misinfo

At a time when COVID-19 cases are rising in America, the Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies.

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“We have also labeled and reduced the visibility of more than 167 million pieces of COVID-19 content debunked by our network of fact-checking partners.” Flipside: “We left up 167 million pieces of disinformation despite knowing they were false.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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@benedictevans To be clear, what I take issue with is their claim that Facebook is not a problem. What to do about it so much harder question. Fact checking every single post doesn't seem to be the right answer. We need structural changes.
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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This a big part of why social media is such a powerful medium for disseminating propaganda. When you drop leaflets from a plane, everyone knows it's propaganda. When Uncle Rick shares a story he read somewhere, it's much less clear what you are looking at.
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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Finally, when your “Vice President for Integrity” is so adept at packing misdirection, agnatogenesis, deceit, and all-around weaselry into so short a document, you've got big problems with your corporate culture. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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“Vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the US has increased.” This is a red herring, given that vaccine acceptance among everyone in the US has increased—dramatically. Look at the decline in those truly hesitant: the “wait and see” group. Source: https://www.kff.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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“Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed.” This is pure slight of hand. First, they're comparing a survey result with a behavioral response; that's apples and oranges. Second, to evaluate the highlighted claim below, we need to consider a counterfactual. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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“Hearing from a friend is more persuasive.” Can they really not see that this cuts both ways? If hearing from a friend that they were vaccinated helps more than exhortations of a remote agency, seeing a friend post antivax propaganda hurts more than finding it via google etc. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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“Facts, not allegations.” It would be nice to be able to rely on facts. Unfortunately, Facebook has exclusive access to the data we need to know what the facts are, and is not forthcoming with those facts. See e.g. the ongoing CrowdTangle debacle. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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Facebook concludes by asking to be praised for putting bandaid on the gaping wound they created. Don't fall for it. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
@ct_bergstrom

[Thread] The response to Biden from Facebook's VP of Integrity is a textbook example of bluster and obfuscation

Carl T. Bergstrom / @ct_bergstrom : Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @benedictevans , @benedictevans , @terrellrussell , @badlhoch , and @sarthakgh Tweets: Carl T. Bergstro...

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