Rottem
@rottem.bsky.social
Trust & Safety Researcher | trying to use my sociology degree to make the internet suck less
Oakland turnout for No king's
June 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Oakland turnout for No king's
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for sale: checks & balances, never used
February 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
for sale: checks & balances, never used
In T&S work, I've been repeatedly told to "pick my battles." I was asked to save my political capital for the more important fights. That was wrong, constantly losing ground on the lesser battles paved the way for even worse ideas. I'm seeing the same rhetoric with dems asked to "compromise." Don't.
January 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In T&S work, I've been repeatedly told to "pick my battles." I was asked to save my political capital for the more important fights. That was wrong, constantly losing ground on the lesser battles paved the way for even worse ideas. I'm seeing the same rhetoric with dems asked to "compromise." Don't.
They're promising their stories will be entertaining, not necessarily true, critical, or thoughtful. Well at least now their slogan is more authentic, even if their stories aren't.
scoop: The Washington Post today is unveiling a new mission statement that has been in the works for months
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/b...
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
They're promising their stories will be entertaining, not necessarily true, critical, or thoughtful. Well at least now their slogan is more authentic, even if their stories aren't.
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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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“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries”
Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.
For no particular reason today.
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.
For no particular reason today.
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
When are Fact-Checks Effective? An Experimental Study on the Inclusion of the Misinformation Source and the Source of Fact-Checks in 16 European Countries
Despite increasing academic attention, several questions about fact-checking remain unanswered. First, it remains unclear to what extent fact-checks are effective across different political and med...
doi.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“We find that fact-checks are successful in debunking misperceptions. Moreover, this debunking effect is consistent across countries”
Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.
For no particular reason today.
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
Posting this key finding from our recent 16 country study.
For no particular reason today.
doi.org/10.1080/1520...
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Okay, so just a few* thoughts (*this got longer as I wrote 😅….long thread)-
Having a lot of thoughts & feelings today as someone who’s worked both on FBs misinfo interventions (back when they were making investments) and Birdwatch (pre-Musk Community Notes) 💔. Debating if a thread is worth the inevitable headache 😓
January 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Okay, so just a few* thoughts (*this got longer as I wrote 😅….long thread)-
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
I officially hit my goal of reading/listening to 36 books this year. I'd like to thank the distressing world environment for encouraging this escapist tendency.
Looking for book suggestions!
Looking for book suggestions!
November 15, 2024 at 9:29 PM
I officially hit my goal of reading/listening to 36 books this year. I'd like to thank the distressing world environment for encouraging this escapist tendency.
Looking for book suggestions!
Looking for book suggestions!
I know it's not true but it would make me so happy to find out a troll has infiltrated the billionaires club and if going around convincing these dudes to rebrand their companies to weird, derivative names that are already under copyright from someone else.
July 24, 2023 at 4:27 PM
I know it's not true but it would make me so happy to find out a troll has infiltrated the billionaires club and if going around convincing these dudes to rebrand their companies to weird, derivative names that are already under copyright from someone else.