YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content
The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indict...
X sues California over AB 587, arguing the law forcing social networks to detail their moderation interferes with X's constitutionally protected editorial calls
Our statement: progresschamber.org/musk-sues-ca-over- content-moderation-law [embedded post] Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : And it looks like just weeks after that case got thrown out, exTwitt...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
Bari Weiss releases “Twitter Files Part Two”, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly put on “blacklists” and screenshots of internal Slack messages
all in secret, without informing users. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left Ashley Feinberg / @ashl...
Source: Elon Musk plans to become Twitter's CEO, but may cede the role in the longer term
It Was Never Taken Down Heather Kelly / Washington Post : You've decided to quit Twitter. Here's what you can use to replace it. Charlie Conchie / City A.M. : Sacked Twitter chiefs could pocket $122m...
Replying to tweets from right-wing users, Elon Musk boosts criticism of Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde and Jim Baker, leading to more users joining the attacks
Yesterday, with as little fanfare as possible, I downloaded my archive and deactivated my Twitter account. Dirt : White hot — Dirt is a daily email about entertainment. … not.not.reading Karissa Bel...
DuckDuckGo, which has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, says it will down-rank sites “associated with Russian disinformation”
no functional search engine is, or can be—and the company did itself no favors imo trying to capitalize on the right's anger with Google search “bias” to promote itself. It opened itself to this kind ...
Facebook's Oversight Board says it is now accepting cases for review, both from users who have exhausted the company's appeals process and from Facebook itself
absolutely the worst. Started at the top with Elliot Schrage. Sad thing is bullying reporters often works. @reciaimthenet : Translation: “Starting today, Facebook and Instagram users can ask the Board...
How YouTube gaming commentators use anger to gain views on their videos, which researchers and some YouTubers say are amplified by YouTube's recommendations
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