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So there’s a protest tomorrow in front of the US district court in manhattan to express support for Sassoon’s courage and call on Hochul to remove Adams, right… right?

My compilation of what you can do to fight the Trump agenda www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

When I worked for Oxfam in South Sudan, we used Fewsnet data all the time to understand and explain the food security situation in the country. This is devastating.

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Someone should write about how tech people became (or acquiesced to) anti-science

From my reading list 👀

"Platforms that removed only content that could be made illegal would rapidly become unusable, mired in spam, porn, harassment, and other graphic but not unlawful speech."

Evelyn Douek in 2022

I took a shot at decoding Peter Thiel’s strange conspiratorial rankings for @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

Short version: the tech billionaires are getting pumped to deploy the U.S. government to stop any *other* government regulating tech companies.

www.techpolicy.press/peter-thiel-...

With the repeal of the AI exec order, the Trump admin has rescinded an effort to regulate new tech for the public good, protect Americans against violations of their rights & liberties when AI is in use, and build the governmental muscle to ensure that AI serves all Americans. 1/4

Community Notes needs Journalism. Here's some scientific evidence for it @andyzhao.bsky.social and I provided last year in the Journal of Online Trust & Safety where we looked at the dynamics of Cofacts, the Taiwanese crowdsourced fact-checked community:

www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

Content moderation on private platforms is imperfect, but the reflexive use of “censorship” in this Zuck statement — a word rendered meaningless by a right-wing propaganda campaign that saw moderating as disadvantaging them — is a purely political statement.

Important thing that is not discussed enough ⬇️ the significant funding FB was giving to fact checking organizations, including in the global south. Community notes are made possible by free labor. Platforms continue to shirk any responsibility for the harm resulting from the algorithms they design.

One of the things we all really need from platform T&S teams — honest, authentic, human conversations about the impossible tradeoffs involved in this work — is made effectively impossible by the deranged ways a small number of people treat platform staff when they speak publicly. Ask me how I know.

While I have FOMO missing this year's #NCA2024 conference, you can catch many of my brilliant colleagues at #NCA over the next few days

There are too many to name them all, but here's a short list of Rutgers students and faculty presenting on **top panels**. You won't want to miss these!

My last tweet was posted on December 3, 2022, when it became clear that Elon was letting the Nazis run rampant. Just sayin'...