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Dan Gillmor

@dangillmor
177 posts
2025-01-08
This is vile stuff, and it will invite all kinds of abuses including outright violence.  —  Big Journalism doesn't seem to realize what is at stake here, or care if it does understand.  As usual...  forward.com/news/686...  2/2
2025-01-08 View on X
The Forward

Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism

2025-01-04
Elon Musk's vicious attacks on Wikipedia are only the latest in right-wing fear and loathing campaign against open, accurate information.  See Molly White's newsletter post on this — the context is essential.  —  www.citationneeded.n...  (Please donate to Wikipedia, too!)
2025-01-04 View on X
Citation Needed

An in-depth look at Elon Musk's criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control

the context is essential.  —  www.citationneeded.n...  (Please donate to Wikipedia, too!) Marciano Siniscalchi / @marciano : Looks like Elon fails to understand basic psychology an...

2022-11-22
Sports betting is an addictive practice (like all gambling). It will be the ultimate corruption of sports — and the people who participate. America's self-destructive instincts are endless. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-11-22 View on X
New York Times

An investigation reveals how online US sports betting grew so big, so fast and what the consequences are likely to be for public health, taxpayers, and others

The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers …

2022-11-21
Epic BS from a Musk toady: https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Donald Trump says he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter”, doesn't see any reason to return, and plans to stick to Truth Social

these decisions affect people and they shouldn't be up to @elonmusk's personal whims or a random Twitter poll about whether or not Trump, who incited a violent insurrection when he...

Epic BS from a Musk toady: https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-21 View on X
Reuters

Twitter reinstates Trump's account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes on reinstatement, saying “the people have spoken”

2022-11-20
Epic BS from a Musk toady: https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-20 View on X
Reuters

Twitter reinstates Trump's account, after Elon Musk ran a Twitter poll where 51.8% of 15M+ users voted yes to reinstatement, saying “the people have spoken”

Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor …

2022-11-17
The bigger the crimes, the less likely the punishment. Trump has been the poster child for this, but Sam Bankman-Fried is right up there. https://www.vox.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

The bigger the crimes, the less likely the punishment. Trump has been the poster child for this, but Sam Bankman-Fried is right up there. https://www.vox.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
Vox

A chat via DM with SBF on why regulators “make everything worse”, FTX and Alameda's “messy accounting”, why he regrets filing for bankruptcy, ethics, and more

The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way.

2022-11-08
Mostly good advice for the Great and Mighty Musk, which he almost certainly won't take. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-08 View on X
Platformer

Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US

Will he go through with it?  PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more

2022-11-03
Not a good sign when big companies fuel a “marketplace” so rife with sleaze... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-03 View on X
Decrypt

Meta lets select Instagram creators in the US test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024

Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”

2022-11-01
Latest from @matt_levine on the Musk/Twitter follies is a reminder that one of the new CEO's talents is very Trump-like: signing contracts and then ignoring what he promised. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk violated more contracts when he fired top Twitter executives, including Parag Agrawal, for “cause”, as they did not breach their employment agreements

Massive loss for Twitter. — Musk has been in NYC this week, meeting with advertisers https://twitter.com/...

Latest from @matt_levine on the Musk/Twitter follies is a reminder that one of the new CEO's talents is very Trump-like: signing contracts and then ignoring what he promised. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
Insider

SEC filing: Jack Dorsey rolled over his remaining 2.4% stake in Twitter, worth $1B+, into X Holdings, which Elon Musk didn't have to pay to acquire the company

- Dorsey left his second stint as CEO of Twitter last year.  — A co-founder of the platform and friend of Musk, he's been supportive of the $44 billion takeover.

2022-10-31
Thinking of all the time I'll get back to be productive... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
The Verge

Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired

Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

2022-10-26
How monopolists operate: https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-26 View on X
The Verge

Meta says Apple updated its App Store rules to require IAPs for social media “boosts” to grow its business “while undercutting others in the digital economy”

Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn't get more hostile, here we are.

2022-10-13
What Zuckerberg means by “open” is not what the word actually means, needless to say. Read this piece by @thedextriarchy to see the cartel-meister's slippery language in more detail. https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-10-13 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg touting an “open, interoperable metaverse” stands at odds with Meta using corporate partnerships and case-by-case permissions to build it

Mark Zuckerberg wants to own the future of computing — but not alone.  That's the intended takeaway from this year's Meta …

2022-10-11
Fascism is rising, and this is one of the ways it works. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
@andymstone

Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”

@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, ...

Fascism is rising, and this is one of the ways it works. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
The Wire

Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck

2022-09-19
This NYT story, about Russia's trolling campaign to divide women marching against Trump's misogyny, is a reminder: When we encounter things online that trigger anger, we may well be targets of disinformation specialists. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-09-19 View on X
New York Times

How Russia's IRA troll factories tweeted a torrent of fabricated narratives against the US Women's March and its leaders for 18 months, fracturing the movement

As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia's disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.

2022-09-15
He won't do the right thing on the atrocity called AB 2273, either. Newsom and the overwhelmingly Democratic legislature are making terrible laws that threaten freedom of expression in major ways. Crickets, or support, from Calif's major media companies. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-15 View on X
The Verge

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 587 into law, requiring social networks to share moderation rules, despite concerns it may violate the First Amendment

2022-08-28
We desperately need journalists who understand technology better than most of the ones covering the Mudge-Twitter-Musk story. @mmasnick explains how wretchedly bad the coverage has been, in favor of Musk, naturally. https://www.techdirt.com/...
2022-08-28 View on X
Techdirt

Peiter Zatko's whistleblower report is framed as though it supports Musk's claims that Twitter is lying about spam, but the details actually show the opposite

We already wrote a long story looking at many of the eye-opening claims from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in his whistleblower report …