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Maresa Wolkenstein

@maresawo.bsky.social

experienced project manager with demonstrated history of working in the media industry. passionate about news media and their digital future.

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Veit Dengler

@veitdengler.bsky.social

„Es gibt keine europäische Sprache, in der Worte Friede und Kapitulation gleichbedeutend sind.“

-Ivan Krastev

February 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Casey Newton

@caseynewton.bsky.social

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...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM

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Amber Sparks

@ambersparks.bsky.social

Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were

January 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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Ingrid Brodnig

@brodnig.bsky.social

Facebook & Instagram schaffen die professionellen Faktenchecks ab - ich habe ein Starterpack erstellt mit Menschen & Einrichtungen, die sich für Fakten einsetzen, die Faktenchecks erstellen oder für mehr Aufklärung forschen

Als Reaktion auf diese Entwicklung empfehle ich, solchen Accounts zu folgen

January 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM