2025-07-22
Money over principles. Happens every 👏single 👏time 👏. Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Wired
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and says a “no bad person” rule is impractical
“Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
2025-01-10
What's permissible on Meta now. Importantly, and though not mentioned in article, likely that even on appeal, this content will never be actioned since it's now official policy to allow this speech. Inside Meta's dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people www.platformer.news/meta-new- tra... …
Platformer
Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like “a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it”
“A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it,” reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
What's permissible on Meta now. Importantly, and though not mentioned in article, likely that even on appeal, this content will never be actioned since it's now official policy to allow this speech. Inside Meta's dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people www.platformer.news/meta-new- tra... …
The Intercept
A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more
Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …
2022-09-09
Full marks for being honest the company's leadership doesn't really care about anything beyond profit, even though I know so many wonderful folk who do give a damn, & work everyday to constrain, & redress significant, enduring, deadly harms other teams at Meta unleash. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Meta disbands its Responsible Innovation team set up to address concerns about its products' downsides, but says the company remains committed to the same goals
just a year after company's vice president talked it up Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central : Meta is disbanding the team responsible for making its products more ethical Brendan Si...
2022-07-25
Was part of performative, tokenistic “consultation” to rush this code through early 2022 by former management of Netsafe. Still have notes from review of draft. Gave up because it was so bad, outmoded, & clearly driven by parochial industry motivations. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
New Zealand's internet safety group Netsafe says Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok, and Twitter have agreed to self-regulate to reduce harmful content in the country
Lucy Craymer / Reuters :
2022-04-15
@alexleavitt Suspect India's BJP cells & my own government's propaganda & military-intelligence arms will be in total agreement with you on this! @billyperrigo @hindureporter
TechCrunch
WhatsApp announces Communities with admin tools, file sharing, 32-person calls, and more, to let clubs, schools, and other groups host thousand-user chats
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
2022-03-28
“...Russian Govt, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information & information systems” Kaspersky Named First Russian Company on Security Risk List https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Reuters
The US FCC adds Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom Americas, and China Mobile International USA to its national security threat list, barring them from its USF funds
2022-03-12
@brianfishman Though statement allows for other readings, fair point and on that basis, can't recall similar “extraordinary measures” taken in Myanmar, Syria, with the Palestinians, in Afghanistan & elsewhere, around respective perpetrators & harms against civilians. Perhaps I missed them?
Washington Post
Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison
Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …
@brianfishman What happens when a Ukrainian crosses into Poland? A Ukrainian in the United States with family in Ukraine or refugee in Germany? Ukrainian students in UK? Tourists in Australia? The geo-fencing makes no sense, & this is a policy precedent that is Pandora's Box for harms.
Washington Post
Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison
Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …
A very rare and leaked photo of Facebook's team that makes policy decisions. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison
Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …
2022-01-17
The intentional malevolence, as opposed to carelessness, very worrying. Like 2017's NotPetya, what's aimed at #Ukraine risks migration to other countries & mission critical infra, that readout from Microsoft indicates may result in catastrophic data loss. @ict4peace @DStauffacher https://twitter.com/...
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft identifies a destructive malware operation targeting Ukrainian organizations; the malware looks like ransomware but lacks a ransom recovery mechanism
European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company Vilius Petkauskas / cybernews.com : Belarus state hackers suspected behind Ukraine cyberattack Grugq /...
2021-12-11
Warned about precisely this in June '20, when #Twitter launched audio features: “... Immediately I wonder what implications this will have for the company to manage the volume of audio material it will get that may incite hate, and violence and terrorism.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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 …
2021-10-07
The single greatest tragedy of Facebook - & I mean this as someone who sees great potential, benefits & good as consequence of platform/product use - is to have this man's tone deafness define it https://www.facebook.com/... How can one address a problem if it isn't even acknowledged?
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.
2021-10-06
The single greatest tragedy of Facebook - & I mean this as someone who sees great potential, benefits & good as consequence of platform/product use - is to have this man's tone deafness define it https://www.facebook.com/... How can one address a problem if it isn't even acknowledged?
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.
2021-07-03
Will this work in countries where extremists are elected to govern & normalise violence through political office? (Hint: It won't.) | #Facebook tests prompts that ask users if they're worried a friend is ‘becoming an extremist’ https://cnn.com/...
CNN
New Facebook test prompt asks users if someone they know might be “becoming an extremist”; another notifies users who may have been exposed to extremist content
2021-06-22
The signal to noise ratio is going to have offline consequences | Live Audio Rooms and Podcasts on #Facebook https://about.fb.com/...
TechCrunch
Facebook rolls out Live Audio Rooms, available to verified public figures and select Groups, and its podcast service, available to select partners, in the US
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
2021-06-04
Win for @MiraSissons & team at #Facebook, harmonising a more comprehensive, coherent, rights-based approach to oversight across ecosystem. Still, remarkable degree to which company controlled by US (political) interests, with tone-deafness to other contexts (& bigger markets).
The Verge
Sources: Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to other users
Going forward politicians will be treated more like everyone else — Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that mostly shields politicians …
2021-04-26
“Finally, #Facebook's human rights commitments will be tested most not in the US or Europe but in significant markets like #India and the Philippines with authoritarian leaders.” | It's not just #Twitter that will have to face up to Modi's Govt. https://www.ihrb.org/... https://twitter.com/...
MediaNama
Twitter complies with an emergency order from India and hides 50+ tweets, some of which were critical of Modi's handling of COVID-19, from users in the country
“Finally, #Facebook's human rights commitments will be tested most not in the US or Europe but in significant markets like #India and the Philippines with authoritarian leaders.” | It's not just #Twitter that will have to face up to Modi's Govt. https://www.ihrb.org/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
India's government says it ordered Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to take down dozens of posts critical of its handling of the pandemic; companies complied
New York Times :
2021-04-25
“Finally, #Facebook's human rights commitments will be tested most not in the US or Europe but in significant markets like #India and the Philippines with authoritarian leaders.” | It's not just #Twitter that will have to face up to Modi's Govt. https://www.ihrb.org/... https://twitter.com/...
MediaNama
Twitter complies with an emergency order from India and hides 50+ tweets, some of which were critical of Modi's handling of COVID-19, from users in the country
You're reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India's handling …