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2025-01-20

Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives: ‘Zuckerberg’s claim that he would stand up to government pressure on moderation is undermined by the fact that he’s revealing this literally while caving to government pressure on moderation.’

2025-01-19: The US Tiktok ban goes into force

2025-01-19

TikTok ban: App shuts down in the United States hours ahead of a ban: Whether the ban will last is a different story.

2025-01-15

People Left Twitter Because Twitter’s Product Sucks, Not Because of Purity Politics: Hard to know how much of the decline is ethical concerns vs it’s simply not a very good experience for many people.

2025-01-08

Meta surrenders to the right on speech: A good summary of Zuckerberg’s awful announcement about the future of moderation at Meta.

2025-01-08: From 404 Media: Meta’s HR team is deleting internal employee criticism of new board member, …

2025-01-07

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media: Looks like I’m not the only person kinda terrified about Zuckerberg’s latest pronouncement.

2025-01-07: Meta announces that it's doing its best to make 2025 even worse than it already was

2024-12-31

Quitting social media gave me a new creed: only disconnect: ‘…our virtual selves are not our inner selves, but behaviours drawn out from us by the social media platforms’.

2024-12-26

Older music has been getting a second life on TikTok, data shows: An increasing amount of TikTok videos use music that’s at least 5 years old.

2024-12-19

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD: Spending hours a day looking at the worst humanity has to offer is damaging to one’s health.

2024-12-19: Moderating Facebook is giving their less privileged workers PTSD

2024-12-16

Why Romania’s election was annulled – and what happens next?: Romanian courts rule that their presidential election was too contaminated with social media manipulation, Russian interference, cyber attacks and illegal funding to stand.

2024-12-11

Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?: I was somewhat astonished when Meta said it’d build Fediverse compatibility, am less so to hear they’re not doing so overly enthusiastically.

2024-11-28: Some good work by Skeleton Claw:

2024-11-26

Who is winning UK Politics Bluesky so far?: The left, at least as measured by the slightly strange metric of how many MPs follow them.

2024-11-24

Texas AG Declares War On Advertisers Who Snub Musk’s ExTwitter: Ken Paxton seems to want to make it illegal to not give Elon Musk money.

2024-11-23: The Guardian newspaper will no longer post on X

2024-11-21

Blue skies ahead: Leon wrangles with whether to join Bluesky.

2024-11-19

Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of power: How decentralised Bluesky is depends on what exactly you mean by decentralisation.

On Bluesky: Regarding its vibes and its technology.

2024-11-19: I now believe the Bluesky mass migration is for real, having learned that even dril made the leap.

2024-11-04

Bluesky and enshittification: The most well-intentioned service remains at risk of enshittification whilst there remains significant costs incurred when switching away from it.

2024-10-30

Why I Am (Still) a Liberal (For Now): ‘Thin’ vs ‘thick’ liberalism, and the Cruelty Culture of 2022-era Twitter.

2024-10-27

The AI-Generated Product Reviews Choking the Internet Are Now Illegal: The FTC makes certain types of fake reviews illegal, whether human or robots wrote them, in the US.