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Belinda Barnet

@manjusrii
26 posts
2024-12-12
This is quite a clever incentive in that it is *less expensive* for platforms if they do make deals with media outlets. In other words, it was basically written for Meta, who have walked away from the bargaining table https://www.news.com.au/... [image]
2024-12-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27

President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving

2023-09-12
“While the text may seem plausible and coherent, it isn't always factually correct. LLMs are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence. h/t @huseyinkishi https://ig.ft.com/...
2023-09-12 View on X
Financial Times

An in-depth look at how Google's Transformer model, developed by eight researchers in 2017, radically sped up and augmented how computers understand language

Over the past few years, we have taken a gigantic leap forward in our decades-long quest to build intelligent machines: the advent of the large language model, or LLM. X: @madhumit...

2023-01-11
The slow extinction of the reverse chronological timeline. The rise of “recommended” posts being the default people see on opening. It started when Facebook decided to copy TikTok's For You page https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-11 View on X
The Verge

Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no option to change it, rolling out on iOS first

Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.

2022-05-06
Since the code passed parliament, Facebook have also been negotiating in bad faith or not negotiating at all with some outlets. I've been saying this since the code was passed: we need to designate them. Stop assuming Facebook will behave responsibly or ethically. It won't.
2022-05-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Whistleblowers: Meta deliberately took down Pages for hospitals and other Australian institutions in 2021 as a negotiating tactic over the news bargaining law

When Facebook blocked news pages last year to pre-empt Australian legislation that would force it to pay for content …

2022-02-07
Facebook is really good at threats: specifically, it is good at threatening to withdraw services if governments don't give it what it wants. https://www.cityam.com/...
2022-02-07 View on X
City A.M.

In its annual SEC report, Meta repeats its warning that it may be forced to shut down “significant” services in Europe if new EU data transfer rules are adopted

If Meta is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers … Source: S.E.C. .

2021-04-17
This is a win for Australian consumers. It also sets a precedent in court over the collection of personal data that might be useful for the ACCC in future https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-17 View on X
The Guardian

Australian Federal Court rules Google misled Android users into thinking it would not collect their location data when they turned location history off

Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’

2021-04-16
This is a win for Australian consumers. It also sets a precedent in court over the collection of personal data that might be useful for the ACCC in future https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-16 View on X
The Guardian

Australian Federal Court rules Google misled Android users into thinking it would not collect their location data when they turned location history off

Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’

2021-04-01
You can finally turn them off—a win for news media outlets who were in the ludicrous position of having to monitor a vast number of stories. This was so stupid and unfair https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-04-01 View on X
Medium

Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to continually push users toward more extreme content

In  —  a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”

2021-03-31
You can finally turn them off—a win for news media outlets who were in the ludicrous position of having to monitor a vast number of stories. This was so stupid and unfair https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-03-31 View on X
The Guardian

Facebook now lets users and Pages limit comments on posts, after a 2019 Australian court ruling that news outlets are liable for comments on their Pages

a win for news media outlets who were in the ludicrous position of having to monitor a vast number of stories. This was so stupid and unfair https://www.theguardian.com/ ... @flipp...

You can finally turn them off—a win for news media outlets who were in the ludicrous position of having to monitor a vast number of stories. This was so stupid and unfair https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-03-31 View on X
Medium

Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to push users towards ever more extreme content

In  —  a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”

2021-03-27
“If companies adopt (a code of conduct on misinformation) and harmful content still shows up on their sites, Zuckerberg doesn't believe that platforms should then be liable. Of course he doesn't https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2021-03-27 View on X
The Verge

House tech hearing revealed unorganized lawmakers who conflated issues of competition, privacy, and moderation, and were unable to move past personal grievances

It's time to move past listening and into legislating  —  This story is part of a group of stories called

2020-06-29
Zuck's own employees couldn't budge him - but an advertising boycott might. If they all stick it out and get on board. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-06-29 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US

Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.

Zuck's own employees couldn't budge him - but an advertising boycott might. If they all stick it out and get on board. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-06-29 View on X
Reuters

Organizers of “Stop Hate for Profit” Facebook ad boycott say they plan to take the campaign global, starting with Europe, after the campaign's success in the US

Sheila Dang / Reuters :

2020-06-10
If Facebook even *try* to argue that only 10% of their revenue/traffic is from news content (don't laugh: Google argued exactly this to the ACCC to avoid sharing advertising revenue) I'll launch a campaign
2020-06-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook News, a dedicated section linking to journalism sources, launches in the US, first on mobile, following a limited test that rolled out in October

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :

In addition to all the news content Facebook users post themselves, which is significant, they're launching a dedicated section (accessible under the three-lined “more” menu on mobile). They've got no excuse not to share the revenue of all this eyeball time with news outlets. https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Facebook News, a dedicated section linking to journalism sources, launches in the US, first on mobile, following a limited test that rolled out in October

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :

2020-06-07
Zuck has just published a post to Facebook saying he'll review policies related to threats of state force/violence & voter suppression - and what might violate that. This is about Trump's post and the Facebook executives who quit because Zuck did nothing https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :

I'm very glad Facebook will review it - but given Zuck's strong reluctance to be seen as a publisher (a reluctance he dresses up as “Freedom of Speech") I doubt resulting policy changes will have any teeth. At least, not the kind of teeth that would bite Trump.
2020-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :

2020-06-06
Zuck has just published a post to Facebook saying he'll review policies related to threats of state force/violence & voter suppression - and what might violate that. This is about Trump's post and the Facebook executives who quit because Zuck did nothing https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub

- CEO to look at policies on voter suppression, state force  — Facebook will launch a voter hub for vetted information

I'm very glad Facebook will review it - but given Zuck's strong reluctance to be seen as a publisher (a reluctance he dresses up as “Freedom of Speech") I doubt resulting policy changes will have any teeth. At least, not the kind of teeth that would bite Trump.
2020-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

In post, Zuckerberg vows to review content policies on state force and voter suppression, ensure content moderation diversity, and announces a new voter hub

- CEO to look at policies on voter suppression, state force  — Facebook will launch a voter hub for vetted information

2020-04-20
“The code will require the companies to...pay news media for use of their content, advise news media of algorithm changes that would affect content rankings, favour original source news content in search results, and share data with media companies. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2020-04-20 View on X
ABC

Australia orders the creation of a mandatory code of conduct requiring platforms like Google and Facebook to pay media businesses for news content

The Federal Government has ordered the competition watchdog to develop a mandatory code of conduct to govern commercial dealings between tech giants and news media companies.