I’ll play the Musk supporter here; “Noo, YOU!”
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I’m convinced Musk has intentionally made twitter run like shit when linked. 90% of the time I end up on his site is when I accidently click on one of the x posts when it randomly decided to load and auto-scrolls the page.
The other 10% is because an embedded video won’t load unless I go to the damn link, or when clicking “Show more” (which most of the time ends up being just a couple more words). Such a garbage app..
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It’s not that we do not know already… Here is one of the most recent filing against Meta/Facebook (also Google, TikTok, Snapchat, etc.)
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Interested to see how this pans out…
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What a world, eh?
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They renamed the company after a product line that has collapsed after nearly $100b in internal funding produced fuck all of value 
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And you were worried about China collecting your data when using TikTok…It just changed hands. That’s all folks!
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But america are only going to use it for good.
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I believe that the article was previously published on Wired, which is behind paywall.
The fury is coming from the UK (and likely EU as well) during initial test deployment. I am sure users will not be able to fight back in the US with billionaires running the shows in the background.
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This leaves a really bad taste in my palate. More grifting.
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This is a huge ruling and will have a huge effect on Social Media and tech in the coming years. Will also have a huge effect on investments as both Meta and Google have long been a favorite in the tech sector for investirs looking for longterm growth.
Could Australia’s ban fir under 16s be something more government now look at themselves?
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There’s an interesting article in the Guardian regarding Meta’s involvement in child sex trafficking.
It rather surprised me regarding the US not holding social media platforms responsible, although my experience of reporting what appeared to be sexulised images of children seemed to indicate that they didn’t care.
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Most of it comes from the protection they get from a law that makes platforms not responsible for the 3rd party content. You will hear it referred to as Section 230, and that makes content moderation almost exclusively a PR issue rather than a legal one. That is why the focus of the recent law suit was on the algorithm and architecture that boosts certain content and directs people to it.
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There was a breaking story last night about a man running a car into pedestrians in Leipzig:
This seemed to feature heavily on international English language news coverage, and on the Facebook comments page there were the usual snide Islamaphobic comments: “Religion of Peace”, “Doctors and Engineers”, “usual suspects” etc.
The Leipzig police rapidly confirmed that they had arrested the perpetrator and that he was a local German man known to police.
This morning they added that he was a 33 year old boxing trainer called Jeffrey K (names are abbreviated for legal reasons, but it isn’t hard to find out he is called Kloß). They also said that he was known to police and had recently been released from a psychiatric hospital.
Not only was none of this reported, but the original stories with the malicious misinformation remain.
If social media companies are leaving this kind of malicious content in place, then shouldn’t they be held accountable next time an innocent person is assaulted, their business attacked or place of worship destroyed?
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They should be held accountable immediately, because this is the umptieth time this kind of shite happens. Earlier, they said that they hadn’t the means to clean up things rapidly enough. Now, we all know that it is done on purpose. Warfare through social media.
My take: shut these fucking cancers off, and invest into some proper social media, with a high level of information accuracy, and appropriate accountability (should have been done years ago to be fair).
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Even better would be send the concept of social media to the trash altogether.
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I don’t know if many people would support that, but yeah, I agree that we’d be better off without the likes of X, Tiktok and Facebook. Super-toxic stuff.
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