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Elise Thomas

@elisethoma5
11 posts
2024-04-06
Dear disinfo researchers, can we please, please not adopt the infosec world's practice of giving the same group 18 different names. It is silly and confusing. Just pick one! I don't care which one, let's just agree https://www.theguardian.com/ ... [image]
2024-04-06 View on X
The Guardian

Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run

Dan Milmo / The Guardian :

For at least seven years, the pro-CCP influence campaign known as Spamouflage (unless you're Google and insist on calling it Dragonbridge) has been infamous among researchers for two things: its enormous scale, and its almost complete ineffectiveness.
2024-04-06 View on X
The Guardian

Microsoft warns that China plans to disrupt US, South Korean, and Indian elections in 2024 with AI-generated content, after using Taiwan's election as a dry run

Dan Milmo / The Guardian :

2022-06-25
CrowdTangle has been super buggy and just not very useful for ages. I guess at least now we have confirmation of what we already knew: it's not being maintained the way it should be. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: in February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle, but paused the plan as the EU's Digital Services Act gained traction

and fund it for a year or two — to ensure that this vital tool is here for the next series of elections. https://twitter.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : NEW from me: CrowdTangle ...

2022-01-27
Oh boy. And now Substack is going to start doing video too, which will be great for all the people who have been banned from Youtube. H/t @MelanieFSmith https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-27 View on X
Axios

Substack plans to launch a native video player in beta next week that will let creators upload or record a video and embed it directly in a Substack post

Writers can chose to make videos available to everyone or only paid subscribers only. Substack authors More on @axios : https://www.axios.com/... Erick Schonfeld / @erickschonfeld ...

2021-09-08
Wow. This is a big deal. https://www.abc.net.au/...
2021-09-08 View on X
ABC

Australia's High Court affirms earlier rulings that media companies can be held responsible for Facebook comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages

The High Court has dismissed an appeal by some of Australia's biggest media outlets including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian …

But also RIP Sky News on Facebook. #auspol
2021-09-08 View on X
ABC

Australia's High Court affirms earlier rulings that media companies can be held responsible for Facebook comments posted under stories on their Facebook Pages

The High Court has dismissed an appeal by some of Australia's biggest media outlets including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian …

2021-03-30
That was my first thought as well. These just seem SO blatant, and it's not clear to me why it would be worth the risk for Amazon when they have such tremendous lobbying power already. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-30 View on X
Insider

Newly created Twitter accounts labeled as Amazon employees are defending the company amid a union drive; Amazon admitted in 2018 to paying for similar tweets

- Amazon's paid army of employee Twitter users is at it again, this time criticizing unionization.

2021-01-28
I'm sure this will go swimmingly, as all sweeping global decisions do. Meanwhile, how many language groups out there have less than one Facebook content moderator per million users? https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-28 View on X
CNBC

Zuckerberg says Facebook will stop recommending civic and political groups to users permanently and is considering reducing political content in News Feeds

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :

2020-11-09
So how many times can a page mention ‘StopTheSteal’ before this Facebook ban kicks in? Because apparently it's more than having it in the name, URL, banner image, profile image... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-09 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook starts putting some political and social groups on a 60 day probation and will closely monitor them, to slow the spread of disinfo about the election

2020-11-08
So how many times can a page mention ‘StopTheSteal’ before this Facebook ban kicks in? Because apparently it's more than having it in the name, URL, banner image, profile image... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-08 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook starts putting some political and social groups on a 60 day probation and will closely monitor them, to slow the spread of disinfo about the election

A new system flags groups that violate community standards, and makes volunteer moderators approve all posts for two months

2020-09-01
@JoshButler How on earth are they planning to enforce that, though? They're not doing great at keeping the things they currently claim to have banned off their platform, their chances of effectively banning something as huge as “the news” seem pretty damn slim.
2020-09-01 View on X
New York Times

Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes

The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.