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Meta Following Elon Down The Road Of Making Verification An Upsell Is A...
And here I was thinking that the last few months of Twitter shenanigans with Elon Musk at the helm had done something nearly impossible: made Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership of Meta (Facebook/Instagram)...
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Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t...
As you may have heard, yesterday Meta finally launched Threads, its Twitter-like microblogging service, built on ActivityPub, but using Instagram account credentials for login. The reaction from across...
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Something Stupid This Way Comes: Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads,...
Just fucking fight it out already. The whole stupid “cage match” brawl thing was started when Meta execs made some (accurate) cracks about Elon’s management of Twitter, and Elon couldn’t handle it....
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Elon Musk’s Double Standard On ‘Doxxing’: Says It’s Okay To Reveal Zuck’s...
What, Elon Musk is a hypocrite? Who knew? You may recall that last year, after directly promising that he’d leave up the ElonJet account, which reveals public information regarding the flights of Elon...
View ArticleCourt Dismisses Mark Zuckerberg Personally From Massive ‘Social Media Addicts...
Over the last few years, there have been a ton of lawsuits, pretty much all of them dubious, arguing that social media is inherently harmful to children (something the research does not show) and that...
View ArticleCtrl-Alt-Speech: A Lack Of (Under)Standing
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket...
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Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP...
Two bits of news came out of the letter Mark Zuckerberg sent to Rep. Jim Jordan this week (and how people responded to it), neither of which are what you’re likely to have heard about. First, Donald...
View ArticleNew Trump Book Threatens To Jail Zuckerberg, Putting Zuck’s Groveling Letter...
Was Mark Zuckerberg’s cringey spinelessness just an attempt to grovel before Donald Trump to avoid a vindictive criminal lawsuit? Given the timing of the letter coming out just before Trump’s new book...
View ArticleCtrl-Alt-Speech: The Platform To Prison Pipeline
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket...
View ArticleZuckerberg Vows To Stop Apologizing To Bad Faith Politicians, Right After...
Two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg apologized for something he didn’t actually do to appease a bad faith actor demanding he take responsibility for something that didn’t happen. This week, he’s claiming...
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