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Kate Starbird

@katestarbird
51 posts
2025-01-11
As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn't about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports ... but about removing trans people from public life.  And it's working.  This is a big company, making a big change that isn't about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons). …
2025-01-11 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.

2025-01-08
Fact-checking wasn't “biased” against conservatives.  Conservatives just shared more false content.  If there's a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it's not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.  [embedded post]
2025-01-08 View on X
New York Times

Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim

Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.

This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservatives.  And also, because the “bias” isn't with the fact-checking, but with conservatives sharing more false/misleading content. bsky.app/profile/kate...  [embedded post]
2025-01-08 View on X
Wired

Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”

www.wired.com/story/metas-... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservative...

This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservatives.  And also, because the “bias” isn't with the fact-checking, but with conservatives sharing more false/misleading content. bsky.app/profile/kate...  [embedded post]
2025-01-08 View on X
New York Times

Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim

Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.

2025-01-07
One remaining concern for me is that even people who WANT to find accurate information are going to be challenged to do it, because we're going to lose the groups that do this fact-checking work — unless non-profits step in to fill what is going to be a huge funding gap.
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

Meta is dropping its support for fact-checking, which, in addition to degrading users' ability to verify content, will essentially defund all of the little companies that worked to identify false content online.  But our FB feeds are basically just AI slop at this point, so? [embedded post]
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

Fact-checking wasn't “biased” against conservatives.  Conservatives just shared more false content.  If there's a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it's not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.  [embedded post]
2025-01-07 View on X
NBC News

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …

Coping with the news that Dana White (president of the UFC) has been appointed to Meta's board?  Perhaps it's useful to see how the dynamics of social media and improvisational entertainment (pro wrestling, improv) are already intertwined with today's politics: theconversation.com/how-right- wi...
2025-01-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann

Is a Choke Button Coming Soon? Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller : Major Trump Ally Dana White Joins Meta's Board As Zuck Sheds Left-Wing Bias Clyde Hughes / UPI : Meta names Dana...

2022-11-05
What a tragedy. This team was amazing... a brilliant team providing transparency and productive critique from inside Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-05 View on X
Platformer

Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs

I. The Snap  —  The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday.  —  For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …

What a tragedy. This team was amazing... a brilliant team providing transparency and productive critique from inside Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-05 View on X
Washington Post

Twitter lays off about half its staff, sending a “Your Role at Twitter” email to their company account for those staying and personal account for those leaving

which was maybe ~80-100 people — is down to just two people after layoffs today.... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Here's the first official communication from Twitter's new leadershi...

2021-12-11
This doesn't bode well... https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-11 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Kayvon Beykpour and other executives ignored warnings that Twitter lacks the ability to moderate Spaces and launched the product amid investor pressure

Employees who complained about the lack of moderation say they were sidelined  —  Earlier this year, as Twitter raced to roll out Spaces …

2021-12-02
It's good to see this transparency initiative from FB. It will help the research community to better understand how influence operations take shape on Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-02 View on X
Washington Post

In its end-of-year threat report, Meta says it took down several global disinformation networks, including anti-vaccine groups and groups linked to state actors

The takedowns described in the company's latest threat report demonstrate how the cat-and-mouse game between Facebook and bad actors is escalating

2021-10-25
“... FB research ... in 2019 ... found that misinformation shared by politicians was more damaging than that coming from ordinary users. Yet the company maintained a policy that year that explicitly allowed political leaders to lie without facing the possibility of fact checks.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-25 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...

“... FB research ... in 2019 ... found that misinformation shared by politicians was more damaging than that coming from ordinary users. Yet the company maintained a policy that year that explicitly allowed political leaders to lie without facing the possibility of fact checks.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish

Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …

2021-10-24
Again, we hear that instead of holding highly visible, “repeat offender” accounts & domains to higher standards (e.g. around the spread of misinformation), FB whitelisted them, fearing political and PR blowback. And again that private groups are toxic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-24 View on X
Washington Post

A new whistleblower, a former member of Facebook's Integrity team, files an SEC complaint alleging Facebook prized profits over fighting hate speech and misinfo

Craig Timberg / Washington Post :

“... FB research ... in 2019 ... found that misinformation shared by politicians was more damaging than that coming from ordinary users. Yet the company maintained a policy that year that explicitly allowed political leaders to lie without facing the possibility of fact checks.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-24 View on X
Washington Post

Docs: Facebook user reports of “false news” hit ~40K per hour on January 6; the Instagram account reported most often for inciting violence was @realdonaldtrump

Relief flowed through Facebook in the days after the 2020 presidential election.

“... FB research ... in 2019 ... found that misinformation shared by politicians was more damaging than that coming from ordinary users. Yet the company maintained a policy that year that explicitly allowed political leaders to lie without facing the possibility of fact checks.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-24 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.

Again, we hear that instead of holding highly visible, “repeat offender” accounts & domains to higher standards (e.g. around the spread of misinformation), FB whitelisted them, fearing political and PR blowback. And again that private groups are toxic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-24 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous

Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.

2021-10-23
Again, we hear that instead of holding highly visible, “repeat offender” accounts & domains to higher standards (e.g. around the spread of misinformation), FB whitelisted them, fearing political and PR blowback. And again that private groups are toxic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-23 View on X
New York Times

Internal docs show the extent of Facebook's knowledge of extremist Groups on its site but don't offer a complete picture of its decision-making in response

Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies …

Again, we hear that instead of holding highly visible, “repeat offender” accounts & domains to higher standards (e.g. around the spread of misinformation), FB whitelisted them, fearing political and PR blowback. And again that private groups are toxic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-10-23 View on X
Washington Post

A new whistleblower, a former member of Facebook's Integrity team, files an SEC complaint alleging Facebook prized profits over fighting hate speech and misinfo

Latest complaint to the SEC blames top leadership for failing to warn investors about serious problems at the company