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Adrianne Jeffries

@adrjeffries
35 posts
2021-09-05
I'm happy to see this catch on. Company spokespeople are still surprised to hear this is @themarkup's policy. cf @JuliaAngwin https://www.getrevue.co/... and @bcmerchant https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-05 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements

Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.

2021-09-04
I'm happy to see this catch on. Company spokespeople are still surprised to hear this is @themarkup's policy. cf @JuliaAngwin https://www.getrevue.co/... and @bcmerchant https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-04 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements

Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.

2021-01-20
Trump voters were targeted hardest by Facebook political group recommendations https://themarkup.org/...
2021-01-20 View on X
The Markup

Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups”

According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations

2021-01-15
this is wild. post about normal stuff, no likes. post about stop the steal, hundreds of likes https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-15 View on X
New York Times

Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection

I saw this play out in the Philippines too when I was reporting my story about President Duterte “influencers” on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Stua...

2021-01-06
Facebook flipped the switch on political ads in Georgia, and it completely changed what users saw in their feeds — “partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-06 View on X
The Markup

Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban

“partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.c...

More about Citizen Browser here: https://themarkup.org/...
2021-01-06 View on X
The Markup

Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban

“partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.c...

More about Citizen Browser here: https://themarkup.org/...
2021-01-06 View on X
Axios

Facebook says it will resume its political ad ban in Georgia after the polls close in the Georgia runoff elections

Following the Georgia runoff elections, the Facebook ban that restricts ads on social issues, elections and politics nationwide will be reimplemented in the state, the company said...

Facebook flipped the switch on political ads in Georgia, and it completely changed what users saw in their feeds — “partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-06 View on X
Axios

Facebook says it will resume its political ad ban in Georgia after the polls close in the Georgia runoff elections

Following the Georgia runoff elections, the Facebook ban that restricts ads on social issues, elections and politics nationwide will be reimplemented in the state, the company said...

2020-11-20
Is Google losing interest in AMP? https://themarkup.org/...
2020-11-20 View on X
The Markup

Google says it will end preferential search rankings for AMP pages in the spring, but remains “fully committed” to the technology

2020-11-03
I finished this story, about what November 3 will look like online, on Friday. Over the weekend some of the predictions already started to come true https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-03 View on X
New York Times

How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information

So, it's going to be a big week — or weeks. Alexander Hall / Newsbusters : Mark Levin: Facebook Censored My Page on Eve Before Election; ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’ David Gilbert /...

2020-10-29
Ron Johnson just asked Jack Dorsey about this tweet https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-29 View on X
Wired

The Senate's Section 230 hearing, with Dorsey, Zuckerberg, and Pichai, only briefly discussed the law, instead letting Republicans berate Dorsey for soundbites

Republican senators unloaded on Twitter's Jack Dorsey, but had little to say about reforming the foundational internet law.

2020-10-21
Poor Amazon. “Google's anti-forking provisions and policies limited the growth of Amazon's mobile phone, and of Fire OS, because major manufacturers declined to support Amazon's phone out of fear doing so would risk their lucrative deals with Google.”
2020-10-21 View on X
The Keyword

Google calls DOJ's case deeply flawed: “People use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives”

but it's the government's power to police big tech that's on trial Financial Times : Google/antitrust: unparanoid Android Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Why Google is poised to win...

I'm very glad we have @restofworld to tackle these stories on the ground https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-21 View on X
Rest of World

Facebook moderators in India, working for a third-party contractor, say they felt pressured to return to the office this summer, even as the pandemic surged

when Covid-19 cases were surging in the country 1/4 https://restofworld.org/... Nilesh Christopher / @nilchristopher : IMPORTANT: When covid cases were surging, third-party FB mode...

OK, to sum up: DOJ says Google protects its search monopoly through anti-competitive behavior, primarily exclusionary contracts. Search monopoly leads to advertising monopoly. All this makes search worse for users and ads worse for advertisers.
2020-10-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

DOJ and 11 state AGs, all Republican, file a suit alleging that Google acted anticompetitively to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising

not because they're forced to or because they can't find alternatives. We will have a full statement this morning. Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : A few peanut-gallery thoughts on D...

Complaint says: “The revenues Google shares with Apple make up approximately 15-20 percent of Apple's worldwide net income.” Woah if true
2020-10-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

DOJ and 11 state AGs, all Republican, file a suit alleging that Google acted anticompetitively to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising

not because they're forced to or because they can't find alternatives. We will have a full statement this morning. Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : A few peanut-gallery thoughts on D...

Poor Amazon. “Google's anti-forking provisions and policies limited the growth of Amazon's mobile phone, and of Fire OS, because major manufacturers declined to support Amazon's phone out of fear doing so would risk their lucrative deals with Google.”
2020-10-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

DOJ and 11 state AGs, all Republican, file a suit alleging that Google acted anticompetitively to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising

not because they're forced to or because they can't find alternatives. We will have a full statement this morning. Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : A few peanut-gallery thoughts on D...

OK, to sum up: DOJ says Google protects its search monopoly through anti-competitive behavior, primarily exclusionary contracts. Search monopoly leads to advertising monopoly. All this makes search worse for users and ads worse for advertisers.
2020-10-21 View on X
The Keyword

Google calls DOJ's case deeply flawed: “People use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives”

but it's the government's power to police big tech that's on trial Financial Times : Google/antitrust: unparanoid Android Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Why Google is poised to win...

Complaint says: “The revenues Google shares with Apple make up approximately 15-20 percent of Apple's worldwide net income.” Woah if true
2020-10-21 View on X
The Keyword

Google calls DOJ's case deeply flawed: “People use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives”

but it's the government's power to police big tech that's on trial Financial Times : Google/antitrust: unparanoid Android Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Why Google is poised to win...

2020-10-07
I've been sort of waiting for this. The “bipartisan” techlash in the House never really felt bipartisan. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-10-07 View on X
New York Times

Sources: US House report investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook's power has been delayed as Democrats and Republicans are split on the remedies

Good morning!  This Wednesday, let's take a deep breath … Karl Bode / Techdirt : Stop Pretending The Trump GOP Genuinely Cares About Monopoly Power Reuters : U.S. House antitrust f...

I've been sort of waiting for this. The “bipartisan” techlash in the House never really felt bipartisan. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-10-07 View on X
CNBC

After a 16-month probe, House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple enjoy “monopoly power” and suggest antitrust changes that could break them up

- After a 16-month investigation into competitive practices at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google …