2021-01-26
Good luck to @twitter. Fact-checking is important, but if it is crowd-sourced, there's always the risk of the more organised, more-passionate, more-patient, and more-persistent folks trying to have the last word and game the system to make facts resemble their preconceptions. https://twitter.com/...
NBC News
Twitter debuts Birdwatch, in testing since last year, which lets select users flag and add notes about tweets they think are misleading or false
Twitter unveiled a feature Monday meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar …
2020-12-14
@Facebook won't remove @BajrangdalOrg from its platform because it fears for the safety of its staff in India, @WSJ reports: https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Facebook fears cracking down on Hindu extremist groups in India because of the likelihood that it could lead to violence toward its staff
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2020-01-15
This is wrong at so many levels - privacy rights and potentially endangering individuals, to start with. @ihrb https://twitter.com/...
Consumer Reports
New study shows how popular apps including Grindr, OkCupid, Tinder, and the period-tracking apps Clue and MyDays share intimate user data with data brokers
A new study shows how information about your sexuality, religion, and location is sent straight from phones to data brokers