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Sophie Zhang

@szhang_ds
69 posts
2023-03-10
As I've stated to the British Parliament, I am strongly opposed to blanket requirements that would effectively outlaw end-to-end encryption in the United Kingdom. I may have disagreements with Meta, but I agree with WhatsApp in this regard. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2023-03-10 View on X
The Guardian

Meta's Head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, says the service would refuse to comply with the UK's Online Safety Bill requirements to remove end-to-end encryption

2022-12-19
Note the commonality: All of the social media now banned on Twitter is Western. Chairman Musk is specifically avoiding banning e.g. PRC social media (TikTok, Weibo, WeChat, etc.) 伟大光荣正确的埃隆马斯克主席 strikes again! https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
Washington Post

Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”

After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls

Note the commonality: All of the social media now banned on Twitter is Western. Chairman Musk is specifically avoiding banning e.g. PRC social media (TikTok, Weibo, WeChat, etc.) 伟大光荣正确的埃隆马斯克主席 strikes again! https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
The Verge

Twitter backtracks and Elon Musk apologizes after saying the service would remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Mastodon, and others

Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.

2022-11-29
The opaque nature of social media means that outsiders can't responsively adjudicate how effectively social media actually deals with problems such as CSAM, bots, etc. My guess is Elon has focused staffers on responsive vs proactive escalations to win PR. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-29 View on X
Wired

Sources: Twitter has one staffer left on a team dedicated to removing CSAM after layoffs, despite Elon Musk saying “removing child exploitation is priority #1”

Just one person remains to enforce the company's ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

2022-10-30
In any case, a lot of people will start being very disappointed very soon. Or maybe Elon will manage to point fingers successfully. He just can't achieve everything he wants to because of the deep company.
2022-10-30 View on X
@alexstamos

[Thread] Elon Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing government pressures even as his Tesla wealth depends on China and others

I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive persona...

2022-10-29
Elon Musk is the equivalent of a politician promising to cut taxes, increase military/social spending, and eliminate the national debt. All of these ideas sound excellent to the aam admi, but are collectively impossible. You hence have no idea what he will do now in-office.
2022-10-29 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

E.g. on free speech: - “Sorry to be a free speech absolutist.” - 3/4/22 - “If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible” - 05/10/22 - “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all-hellscape where anything can be said” - 10/27/22
2022-10-29 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

“don't like Facebook. Gives me the willies.” - 2018 “It is essential to show Twitter users advertising that is as relevant as possible to their needs. Low relevancy ads are spam, but highly relevant ads are actually content!” -10/27 aka, adopting FB's ads model despite willies.
2022-10-29 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

In any case, a lot of people will start being very disappointed very soon. Or maybe Elon will manage to point fingers successfully. He just can't achieve everything he wants to because of the deep company.
2022-10-29 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

2022-10-24
I've never seen an Indian outlet walk back, review, or otherwise suspend a story. Ever. Even when it's patently absurd and ridiculous, no matter how much it's mocked, it remains up. My naïve hope is that the Wire's reviews will lead to greater accountability in Indian media. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-24 View on X
The Wire

The Wire retracts two recent stories about Meta's XCheck program and says it is using “independent external experts” to investigate its coverage

I say this to explain why the Wire indicates a larger problem. Had the article been published in the West, I would have been critical from the start. Instead, I waited, because sloppy articles with tall claims were par for the course in India. Indian readers paid the price.
2022-10-24 View on X
The Wire

The Wire retracts two recent stories about Meta's XCheck program and says it is using “independent external experts” to investigate its coverage

2022-10-18
India deserves better and healthier reporting that can hold the important - incl. the government - accountable. But the recent pieces in the Wire are unhelpful for this cause. I've worked with the Wire, and published an op-ed with them. It saddens me to see them fall like this. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-18 View on X
Platformer

Interviews with journalists at The Wire, sources at Meta, and knowledgeable outside observers describe the messy fight between Meta and The Wire

The journalists behind a controversial series of stories tell us they haven't been hoaxed.  We're not so sure

2022-10-11
The Wire reports that FB Instagram automatically takes down posts reported by major Indian Xchecked figures without any oversight. This isn't familiar to me, but that's no surprise as I wouldn't have encountered this. Some thoughts, if it's true (major caveat): https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
The Wire

Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck

To be clear, if they were fabricated, it was definitely done by a FB current/former employee that knew enough to make a plausible fake and the Wire was innocent other than being fooled.
2022-10-11 View on X
@andymstone

Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”

@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, ...

The Wire reports that FB Instagram automatically takes down posts reported by major Indian Xchecked figures without any oversight. This isn't familiar to me, but that's no surprise as I wouldn't have encountered this. Some thoughts, if it's true (major caveat): https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
@andymstone

Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”

@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, ...

FB says the Wire's docs are fabricated. I'm inclined to believe them. They don't usually take this step - they refused to comment on my docs - and there were a number of discrepancies in the reporting/docs that might have been due to changes in the past two years but seem sus. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-11 View on X
@andymstone

Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”

@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, ...

2022-08-27
People keep suggesting that I go on Joe Rogan, and I've offered (I talk to basically everyone.) But apparently as a counterculture figure, he prefers to just help Mark sell the metaverse instead? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game ...

2022-08-26
People keep suggesting that I go on Joe Rogan, and I've offered (I talk to basically everyone.) But apparently as a counterculture figure, he prefers to just help Mark sell the metaverse instead? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-26 View on X
VICE

Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more

“It's almost like everyday you wake up and you're punched in the stomach,” the billionaire CEO told Rogan.  —  Matthew Gault

2022-07-15
If Union Carbide commissioned an impact report on the Bhopal chemical disaster, the result would be garbage If Philip Morris created a report on the impacts of smoking upon the aam aadmi, it would be trash No surprise that FB's human rights impact assessment is useless as well. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-15 View on X
Reuters

Meta releases its first annual human rights report, covering 2020 and 2021 due diligence and summarizing a controversial human rights impact assessment of India

Katie Paul / Reuters :

It took me 8 hrs to write 7,800 words when I quit FB. It took FB two years to write two paragraphs for its India Human Rights Impact Assessment summary. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-15 View on X
Reuters

Meta releases its first annual human rights report, covering 2020 and 2021 due diligence and summarizing a controversial human rights impact assessment of India

Katie Paul / Reuters :