Rethinking Facebook: We Need To Make Sure That 'Good For The World' Is More...
I’m sure by now most of you have either seen or read about Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s appearance on 60 Minutes discussing in detail the many problems she saw within Facebook. I’m always a...
View ArticleKlobuchar's Silly Letter To Facebook Raises 1st Amendment Issues And Only...
Senator Amy Klobuchar really is taking to her role as the Senator most eager to set up a Ministry of Truth in the government. Klobuchar has always been terrible on tech/internet issues, but she’s...
View ArticleAlt Right ‘Journalist’ Who’s Lost Every Lawsuit Over Banned Accounts Files...
Laura Loomer still thinks she can sue her way back onto Facebook and Twitter. In support of her argument, she brings arguments that failed in the DC Appeals Court as well as a bill for $124k in legal...
View ArticleSenators Klobuchar And Warren Are Mad That Meta Is Taking Down Abortion...
Almost exactly a year ago, Senator Amy Klobuchar (with Senator Ben Ray Lujan) introduced a bill to create a giant hole in Section 230 for “medical misinformation.” The bill would make social media...
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Employees Reveal Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Vision Is A Clunky, Boring,...
It will never stop being bizarre to me that a social media app tried to claim ownership of VR, AR, and effectively every next-gen, Internet-related technology under the “Metaverse” brand… and the...
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Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And...
Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden’s laptop. If you’re new here, you may not know...
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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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