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Luke O'Brien

@lukeobrien
16 posts
2023-11-29
Gotta be at least one dude at NASA wondering why Congress thought it was a good idea to make the space program dependent on a dope-addled antisemite with three passports. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-11-29 View on X
Washington Post

In a now-deleted November 28 post and on November 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016

in other words, implying that the debunking was BS because the journo was corrupt ergo Pizzagate is real. … Renato Mariotti / @renato.mariotti : Elon Musk has moved on from promoti...

2022-05-10
So Clearview and Floyd Abrams took a beating in court from the ACLU and agreed to limit use of their mass surveillance database in the U.S. But limited MAINLY to gov agencies while MOST American companies and private individuals can't access it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-05-10 View on X
Washington Post

Clearview AI reaches a settlement with the ACLU by agreeing to stop selling or offering free access to its facial recognition database to most US businesses

2022-04-07
Twitter protects Jack Posobiec, no matter how many dangerous lies he spreads. No matter how many neo-Nazis or Kremlin assets he promotes. Why does Twitter do this? Maybe Elon Musk can find out and build Poso an even bigger botnet. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-07 View on X
Platformer

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal may struggle to balance his own vision against that of Elon Musk, an unpredictable board member with a much louder megaphone

now what? - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Twitter protects Jack Posobiec, no matter how many dangerous lies he spreads. No matter how many neo...

2022-04-02
Incredibly, this almost never gets mentioned in coverage of FB and Twitter: “Yuri Milner, has acknowledged taking Russian government money when he invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Facebook and Twitter more than a decade ago.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-04-02 View on X
Washington Post

A look at the growing skepticism from Silicon Valley investors and companies of Russian money, once welcomed, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

and sometimes raised eyebrows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @xeni : Here's what's missing. It's the biggest story of our time. The link between Yuri Milner, Masha Drokova, J...

2022-03-24
Now one of the world's most powerful mass surveillance companies, Clearview is inking all kinds of government contracts. They're using Jan. 6 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine to burrow deeper into the domestic and international security apparatus. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-24 View on X
Reuters

Ukraine's Mykhailo Fedorov says the country is using Clearview AI's tools to identify the bodies of dead Russian soldiers and inform families

Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform …

2022-02-07
Still circling the core issue here. Are we really meant to think that Rogan being racist is unrelated to him seeking out white nationalists, fascist gang leaders, Holocaust deniers and assorted far-right propagandists to appear on his show? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-02-07 View on X
New York Times

Joe Rogan apologizes for his past use of the N-word after a compilation video of him using the slur went viral; 70 JRE episodes have been removed from Spotify

Still circling the core issue here. Are we really meant to think that Rogan being racist is unrelated to him seeking out white nationalists, fascist gang leaders, Holocaust deniers and assorted far-right propagandists to appear on his show? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-02-07 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

Daniel Ek says “silencing” Rogan is not the answer in a staff email and commits $100M to licensing, developing, and marketing content from marginalized groups

Over the weekend, videos resurfaced by the musician India.Arie showed the podcaster repeatedly using the n-word and making derogatory comments about Black people.

2022-02-06
Still circling the core issue here. Are we really meant to think that Rogan being racist is unrelated to him seeking out white nationalists, fascist gang leaders, Holocaust deniers and assorted far-right propagandists to appear on his show? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-02-06 View on X
New York Times

Joe Rogan apologizes for his past use of the N-word after a compilation video of him using the slur went viral; 70 JRE episodes have been removed from Spotify

His apology came as listeners said that as many as 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast had been quietly taken off Spotify …

2022-01-03
In the rare moments that social media platforms don't purposely aid and abet authoritarianism around the world, they are still used as weapons by authoritarian regimes. But, hey, these companies profit off mass surveillance and algorithmic manipulation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

What jumps out from this story is that Twitter suspended the account of a Chinese student in AUS who mocked Xi Jinping on the platform. Twitter did this after the Chinese gov targeted/tracked the student and hauled her dad in for questioning. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

2022-01-01
What jumps out from this story is that Twitter suspended the account of a Chinese student in AUS who mocked Xi Jinping on the platform. Twitter did this after the Chinese gov targeted/tracked the student and hauled her dad in for questioning. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-01 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

Authorities in China have turned to sophisticated investigative software to track and silence obscure critics on overseas social media.

2020-11-14
Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-11-14 View on X
BuzzFeed News

At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation

Mark Zuckerberg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/... Rat King / @...

2020-11-13
Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-11-13 View on X
BuzzFeed News

At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation

As false claims declaring that Joe Biden isn't the president-elect flourish on his platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees …

2020-09-15
We do, though, have to start asking whether Zuckerberg is simply an immoral greedhead or something else entirely. He has abetted vast amounts of authoritarianism, racist extremism and disinfo on his platform. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2020-09-15 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist says large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders, with Facebook slow to act

Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …

2020-04-22
Of course Trump would give a sweetheart pandemic deal to the mass surveillance company of a billionaire donor who thinks democracy is a failed system. https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-22 View on X
The Daily Beast

Sources say Palantir's data suites are a primary contributor to HHS Protect Now, a US government tool to track the spread of coronavirus in use since April 10

Palantir, a longtime partner of intelligence agencies, co-founded by major Trump backer Peter Thiel, is helping build “the single source for [coronavirus] testing data.”

2019-11-24
Breitbart News isn't just defending its status as Facebook's “trusted” white nationalist news source here. It's attacking the press to preserve far-right extremist access to the most powerful weapon in the world ... which is controlled by an unethical child who hangs w fascists. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-24 View on X
The Guardian

White nationalist outlets including VDare and Red Ice TV still operate on Facebook despite its ban on white nationalism; Facebook says it is investigating

Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban Tweets: @juliacarriew , @adamserwer , @juliacarrie...