Chris
@macker202.bsky.social
Architectural visualisation/CGI specialist & music producer. New dad and loving it.
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🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well after zucks “biased facts” I guess I’m here now. Fucking hell.
We really are in the post truth era.
We really are in the post truth era.
January 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Well after zucks “biased facts” I guess I’m here now. Fucking hell.
We really are in the post truth era.
We really are in the post truth era.
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Oh hello Britain 😳
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
August 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Oh hello Britain 😳
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now.
Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download
We need the right wing here to lock horns with. It’s what makes twitter work. It’s what makes debate worthwhile. It’s what makes it amusing.
What we don’t need are the far right, racists and antisemites etc.
I don’t want or need an echo chamber.
#ukpolitics
What we don’t need are the far right, racists and antisemites etc.
I don’t want or need an echo chamber.
#ukpolitics
August 8, 2024 at 7:25 PM
We need the right wing here to lock horns with. It’s what makes twitter work. It’s what makes debate worthwhile. It’s what makes it amusing.
What we don’t need are the far right, racists and antisemites etc.
I don’t want or need an echo chamber.
#ukpolitics
What we don’t need are the far right, racists and antisemites etc.
I don’t want or need an echo chamber.
#ukpolitics
Some sad act got upset that people were calling themselves twitter refugees, and then blocked me lol
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
August 8, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Some sad act got upset that people were calling themselves twitter refugees, and then blocked me lol
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Whilst I’m glad to be off twitter as it has been taken over by bots, misinformation and the far right… I do miss debating with the right wing/centre right. They need to come here too - it’s what makes the place interesting. Nobody wants an echo chamber.
August 7, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Whilst I’m glad to be off twitter as it has been taken over by bots, misinformation and the far right… I do miss debating with the right wing/centre right. They need to come here too - it’s what makes the place interesting. Nobody wants an echo chamber.
Why have I got so much cartoon/artwork on my feed?
August 7, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Why have I got so much cartoon/artwork on my feed?
Can’t stand Noah lyles.
August 4, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Can’t stand Noah lyles.
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Right, I’m on here now as twitter has descended into the worst cesspit imaginable.
August 4, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Right, I’m on here now as twitter has descended into the worst cesspit imaginable.
How’s this work then? Is it going to be twitter but without the lunatics in charge of the asylum? Needs to be better than threads and mastodon.
November 6, 2023 at 12:40 AM
How’s this work then? Is it going to be twitter but without the lunatics in charge of the asylum? Needs to be better than threads and mastodon.