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Melissa Gira Grant

@melissagira
16 posts
2022-09-01
Please recall that Cloudflare only ended their business with the Daily Stormer after Unite the Right in 2017, but in 2018 it took them mere weeks to boot off an indie sex worker community after FOSTA. https://arstechnica.com/... https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-01 View on X
VICE

After an outcry over serving anti-trans stalking forum Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare says denying security services due to “despicable” content is the wrong policy

2022-06-02
1. What news timing 2. You can make your last Lean — joke now https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-06-02 View on X
CNBC

Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta this fall after 14 years, and chief growth officer Javier Olivan will take over as COO; Sandberg will stay on Meta's board

Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Source: Sheryl Sandberg .

“Under her tenure, Facebook has helped incite genocide in Myanmar, and acted as a vehicle for white nationalism and white supremacy across the United States.” https://www.vice.com/...
2022-06-02 View on X
CNBC

Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta this fall after 14 years, and chief growth officer Javier Olivan will take over as COO; Sandberg will stay on Meta's board

Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Source: Sheryl Sandberg .

2022-02-02
I'm glad danah said something. But this is as dense and lengthy as the terms of service she admits the people using Crisis Text Line wouldn't read. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-02 View on X
Politico

Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data

and it's striking to be offered so much inside info about the CTL/Loris debacle — but it also doesn't fully connect the dots. A few thoughts/questions: https://www.zephoria.org/......

2022-02-01
I'm glad danah said something. But this is as dense and lengthy as the terms of service she admits the people using Crisis Text Line wouldn't read. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-01 View on X
Politico

Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data

The nonprofit mental-health hotline Crisis Text Line ended its data-sharing relationship with a for-profit spinoff Monday …

2021-08-21
2 million creators. $5B paid out. If these numbers are anywhere near accurate, imagine how many people were just essentially fired with no notice, in a pandemic, with eviction moratoriums lifting... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-21 View on X
Bloomberg

OnlyFans says it will prohibit users from posting any “sexually explicit conduct” starting in October, but will allow nude photos and videos

2 million creators. $5B paid out. If these numbers are anywhere near accurate, imagine how many people were just essentially fired with no notice, in a pandemic, with eviction moratoriums lifting... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-21 View on X
The Verge

OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1

Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren't allowed  —  On Thursday the video and image sharing site …

2021-08-20
2 million creators. $5B paid out. If these numbers are anywhere near accurate, imagine how many people were just essentially fired with no notice, in a pandemic, with eviction moratoriums lifting... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-20 View on X
Bloomberg

OnlyFans says it will prohibit users from posting any “sexually explicit conduct” starting in October, but will allow nude photos and videos

- Popularity of the website has exploded during the pandemic  — Many sex workers use OnlyFans to charge customers online

2021-01-15
Sheryl Sandberg, resign: https://newrepublic.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-15 View on X
New York Times

Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection

I saw this play out in the Philippines too when I was reporting my story about President Duterte “influencers” on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Stua...

2021-01-14
White women will do a lot to erase ourselves—and that's what likening a lynch mob to GBV is doing—from our participation in white supremacist violence. https://newrepublic.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-14 View on X
Washington Post

Sandberg deflected blame for Capitol riot, but fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram weeks beforehand

Fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram in the days and weeks beforehand

2020-08-13
Between Trump and QAnon, the mainstream anti-trafficking movement is finally having to deal with where two decades of their “join us to take down the secretive global child sex trafficking criminal enterprise that no one else is talking about” call-to-action has landed them https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-13 View on X
New York Times

QAnon followers are hijacking #SaveTheChildren, an anti-human-trafficking movement, and joining parenting Facebook Groups in order to gain new followers

whether people realize it or not Daniel Funke / PolitiFact : QAnon, Pizzagate conspiracy theories co-opt #SaveTheChildren Erica Evans / Deseret News : How a recent surge in concern...

2020-06-11
Except “to help rescue victims of human trafficking” with Ashton Kutcher's charity, among others https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-11 View on X
CNBC

Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, as Congress “appears ready” to place stronger regulations on facial recognition tech

- Amazon said on Wednesday that it's putting in place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition.

2019-10-03
Google contractors were told to collect face scans without consent, focusing on people of color, by offering $5 gift cards to “play” with a phone. “They said to target homeless people because they're the least likely to say anything to the media.” https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
2019-10-03 View on X
New York Daily News

Sources say Google contractor Randstad used dubious tactics targeting people of color to gather facial scans for improving the face unlock system on Pixel 4

Tech giant Google wants your face — especially if you've got “darker skin.”  —  To get it, the company has funded …

2019-08-10
And here we go... if this reporting is accurate, Trump has decided to chip away at Section 230 by executive order: https://www.cnn.com/...
2019-08-10 View on X
CNN

Sources: Trump's draft executive order calls for new FCC regulations narrowing CDA Section 230 protections for social media platforms when they suppress content

Washington (CNN Business)A draft executive order from the White House could put the Federal Communications Commission in charge …

2018-04-08
To sum up: it appears that http://Backpage.com , the domain - not necessarily the server on which its content is stored, or its user data - has been seized. This usually precedes a FBI/HSI raid on a physical location to obtain records.
2018-04-08 View on X
BuzzFeed

US seizes classifieds site Backpage.com and related domains, raids founder's home, files 93 counts including money laundering and facilitating prostitution

Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website, went offline Friday after being seized and disabled by the federal government.

2018-04-07
To sum up: it appears that http://Backpage.com , the domain - not necessarily the server on which its content is stored, or its user data - has been seized. This usually precedes a FBI/HSI raid on a physical location to obtain records.
2018-04-07 View on X
BuzzFeed

US seizes classifieds site Backpage.com and related domains, raids founder's home, files 93 counts including money laundering, facilitating prostitution

Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website, went offline Friday after being seized and disabled by the federal government.