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(DIR) Post #AlLrAC22XxBqeZGl4S by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:10:09Z
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"In #Britain, the canary has sung. This summer we have witnessed something new and unprecedented. The #billionaire owner of a #tech platform publicly confronting an elected leader and using his platform to undermine his authority and incite #violence. Britain’s 2024 summer #riots were #ElonMusk ’s trial balloon.He got away with it."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america#SocialMedia #Disinformation #Propaganda #Lies #Twitter #Musk #Politics #US #USPol #USA #News
(DIR) Post #AlLrAD9WNcli83mFN2 by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:17:18Z
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"If #Musk chooses to “predict” a #CivilWar in the States, what will that look like? If he chooses to contest an #election result? If he decides that #democracy is over-rated? This isn’t #scifi. It’s literally three months away.None of this is happening in a vacuum. For a brief minute after 2016, there was an attempt to understand how these tech platforms had been used to spread lies & falsehoods... But that moment has passed."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america#ElonMusk #Twitter #Disinformation #News
(DIR) Post #AlLrAEieYUSszJDolk by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:23:25Z
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"A #US congressional committee headed by #Republican Jim Jordan, convinced that big tech was silencing conservative voices, went on the warpath... Whole #university departments have collapsed, including the #Stanford #Internet Observatory whose #election integrity unit provided rapid detection and analysis in 2020.Even the #FBI has been prevented from communicating with #tech companies about what officials have warned is a coming onslaught of foreign #disinformation and influence operations"
(DIR) Post #AlLrAG3xYl6P9gCLcO by ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2024-08-18T21:29:58Z
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" #Twitter... has sacked at least half its trust & safety team. But then so has every #tech company we know about. Thousands of workers previously employed to sniff out #misinformation have been laid off by #Meta, #TikTok, #Snap and #Discord.Just last week, #Facebook killed off one of its last remaining transparency tools...In 2020, these efforts seemed pathetic, paltry, inadequate to the scale of the threat.Now they’re gone"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america#SocialMedia #Election2024 #USA #News