Tech was supposed to improve caucuses. Instead, it may have doomed them
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
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EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
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Policy vs technology
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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media
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The Yang Gang and its bots
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Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
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What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
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Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
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Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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Why electronic voting is still a bad idea
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Four US congressional reps ask Bill Barr to restart his war on porn
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Google updates their political advertising policies, limits targeting capabilities, and expands which ads are covered by their transparency report
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How activists are getting around Iran’s internet blackout
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Smart TVs collect data for political-advertising use
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Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
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NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
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Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
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How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
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How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
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This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
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NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyber conference at the last minute
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How the women-only Facebook group Minbar-Shat helped overthrow the Sudanese government
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Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
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Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops
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US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’
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Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
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How YouTube radicalized Brazil
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Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after pressure
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A draft executive order from the White House would have the FTC and FCC police alleged social media censorship
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US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock
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How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
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Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
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GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions
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As authoritarian governments surveil the internet, open source projects decide how to respond
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Infowars host, still verified on Twitter, calls for lynching of Barack Obama
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Can the left win YouTube?
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Hey anybody here want to be on a panel about labor rights and tech contracting?
I'm putting together a panel for Tech Worker's Coalition for SXSW 2020 and the focus of my panel is on tech contracting. Specifically we're looking to speak on the issues of labor rights and how...
I'm putting together a panel for Tech Worker's Coalition for SXSW 2020 and the focus of my panel is on tech contracting.
Specifically we're looking to speak on the issues of labor rights and how they are effected by contracting.
Anybody interested or have experience with the subject?
In case I forget to check Tildes (I joined and then I always forget to check it) my email is aslan@jackalope.tech
We've also got a couple of other panels brewing on the subject of unionization in tech and another on the recent controversies between tech workers and their companies over social issues (such as google walkout over sexual harassment, wayfair's walkout over selling beds to ICE etc)
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Twitter announces a plan to apply click-through "notices" to future tweets from politicians that violate Twitter rules but are "in the public interest"
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Ravelry (a popular site/community for knitting and crocheting) bans posts in support of Trump or his administration
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Beware the Cheapfakes: Deepfakes are troubling. But disinformation doesn’t have to be high tech to be damaging.
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Barack and Michelle Obama sign Spotify deal to produce exclusive podcasts
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Twitterbots: Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign
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Break up Big Tech
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