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VOICE ARCHIVE

Philip Mai

@phmai
9 posts
2023-09-23
The beginning of an AI non-proliferation regime? Similar “know-your-customer” policies, a proposed executive order will force cloud companies to disclose when a customer purchases computing resources beyond a certain threshold to the US Commerce Dept. https://www.semafor.com/...
2023-09-23 View on X
Semafor

Sources: The White House is weighing requiring cloud companies to disclose when a client buys computing resources above a set threshold, as part of an EO on AI

The White House is considering requiring cloud computing firms to report some information about their customers to the U.S. government …

2023-08-02
Another turn of the screw. Meta begins to remove news access for Canadians on Facebook & Instagram. It's not yet clear who'll blink 1st, Meta or the government of Canada. We'll know in a few weeks whether this is just a negotiation tactic or the real deal. https://www.ctvnews.ca/...
2023-08-02 View on X
Reuters

Meta begins the process to end news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, in response to a law forcing some companies to negotiate deals to pay publishers

Here's Why Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Meta Bets Big on AI to Revive Facebook and Instagram Business Post : Meta begins to cut off news access in Canada ChinaTechNews.com : Eveni...

2023-05-12
🚨Twitter search autocomplete/search suggestions seem to have no guardrails right now ... 🚨 https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-12 View on X
VICE

Twitter appears to disable autocomplete in its search bar after users pointed out that the feature was recommending gory videos of animal abuse and war footage

Matthew Gault / VICE :

2023-03-17
“Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore” “The Online Operations Kill Chain: A model to analyze, describe, compare, and disrupt threat activity from influence operations to cybercrime” by @benimmo & Eric Hutchins via @IOpartnership https://carnegieendowment.org/ ...
2023-03-17 View on X
The Record

Q&A with two of Meta's leading security experts about its Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threat activity like influence operations

Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times.

2021-08-06
To enable independent social media research in the public interest, what we really need is a safe harbour law that mandate unfettered access for qualified journalists & researchers. https://www.wired.com/...
2021-08-06 View on X
Washington Post

In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement “inaccurate”

The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …

2021-06-14
Social media has spawned a bevy of new words. ‘Autoliker’ is one of these new words. Here's an interesting explainer on these automated programs and why they pose such a risk to political discourse in countries such Brazil and others in the Global South. https://restofworld.org/...
2021-06-14 View on X
Rest of World

Many Latin American Facebook users are self-compromising their accounts to fuel fake engagement through “autoliker” websites and unwittingly joining bot farms

2021-06-13
Social media has spawned a bevy of new words. ‘Autoliker’ is one of these new words. Here's an interesting explainer on these automated programs and why they pose such a risk to political discourse in countries such Brazil and others in the Global South. https://restofworld.org/...
2021-06-13 View on X
Rest of World

Many Latin American Facebook users are self-compromising their accounts to fuel fake engagement through “autoliker” websites and unwittingly joining bot farms

Global South users often share their accounts with shady middlemen.  The practice is corrupting civil discourse around the world. Tweets: @restofworld , @devi_lockwood , @mtn_rnnr ...

2021-01-14
Wow, the level of pushback on this @donie's tweet by team FBk is v. telling. Just as telling is the subtle use of “don't break us up b/c our size (& resources) is what allows us to stop bad things.” It's not 🤥. Get ready for 10K & 1 vers. of this argument this yr. #antitrust https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-14 View on X
Washington Post

Sandberg deflected blame for Capitol riot, but fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram weeks beforehand

Fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram in the days and weeks beforehand

2020-11-21
How much political news do people see on Facebook? Very little... ~8%, based on a small sample of 173 users. It's inline with what FB execs hav intimated in the past. It explains their willingness to remove news links from people's feed in Australia. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
2020-11-21 View on X
Nieman Lab

Survey of post samples from 173 adult US Facebook users' feeds during October 2020 found that 54% of users saw no news within the first 10 posts of their feeds

What do people see in their Facebook feeds?  How much news do they encounter there — from legitimate outlets or from those known for sowing misinformation? Tweets: @froomkin , @mar...