João C. Magalhães
@jcmagalhaes.bsky.social
Platforms, politics & democracy. Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester. More at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcmagalhaes/
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Not much to see here, just Mark Zuckerberg making sure that Stephen Miller, of all people, greenlights Facebook's new hiring policies.
Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
January 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Not much to see here, just Mark Zuckerberg making sure that Stephen Miller, of all people, greenlights Facebook's new hiring policies.
Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
Gift link to this excellent NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...
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It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media
January 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It's so weird that in the end Twitter became state media
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Passively compounding wealth creates more inequality than anything else IMO. If the stock market didn’t exist, Elon Musk would be just a generationally wealthy dudebro, maybe a co investor in his brother Kimbal’s restaurant
January 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Passively compounding wealth creates more inequality than anything else IMO. If the stock market didn’t exist, Elon Musk would be just a generationally wealthy dudebro, maybe a co investor in his brother Kimbal’s restaurant
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in retrospect, one of the funniest headlines of all time
January 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
in retrospect, one of the funniest headlines of all time
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As @peterpomerantsev says, the time for rebuilding better social media is NOW: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation
How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising – and polarising – influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
As @peterpomerantsev says, the time for rebuilding better social media is NOW: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
theintercept.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
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Many are fleeing major platforms for services like this one. I have an essay on two great books (by @paulgowder.bsky.social + @ntnsndr.in) that offer historically-rooted visions for democratic, social networks that we need to consider in the era of Bluesky and beyond...
jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...
jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...
Can Democracy Survive Online?
The dream of a democratic web has turned into a nightmare of moderation crises, content mines, and billionaire overlords. Rebuilding digital spaces for meaningful participation in a post-X future will...
jacobin.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Many are fleeing major platforms for services like this one. I have an essay on two great books (by @paulgowder.bsky.social + @ntnsndr.in) that offer historically-rooted visions for democratic, social networks that we need to consider in the era of Bluesky and beyond...
jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...
jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...
Posting here for the first time to share my reaction to Meta's autocratic turn, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social
There is nothing normal about a company that helps define what almost half of humanity sees on their screens explicitly promising to support a far-right leader, writes João C. Magalhães.
Meta is Not Returning to its Free Speech Origins – It’s Preparing for an Autocratic Future | TechPolicy.Press
Let’s take what Zuckerberg is saying seriously and admit that we are entering – once again – uncharted waters, writes João C. Magalhães.
www.techpolicy.press
January 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Posting here for the first time to share my reaction to Meta's autocratic turn, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social