"For years, #ImranAhmed has presented his research on how #techplatforms enable the spread of #antisemitism to receptive audiences across the ideological spectrum.

He’s worked with the #AntiDefamationLeague and #JewishFederations of North America; the latter credits Ahmed with the backbone of much of its own policy proposals[...]

He’s joined #Republicans in advocating for an end to #Section230, a law granting special protections to #socialmedia platforms. During the first #Trump administration, on the strength of his research, the #British-born Ahmed received a priority visa as an “alien of extraordinary ability” — the so-called “#Einsteinvisa,” after the German-born #Jewish physicist.

All of that only added to Ahmed’s befuddlement when, just before Christmas, the current Trump #StateDepartment announced it would be revoking his #visa because of what #SecretaryofState #MarcoRubio tweeted were “egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.”

https://www.jta.org/2026/01/06/politics/he-researches-antisemitism-for-a-living-why-does-the-state-department-want-to-kick-him-out-of-the-country

Ashutosh Das I PMP, CSM I presents 'Engineering with Purpose: Building Sustainable Products & Platforms' next week at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#ElevanceHealth #SoftwareEngineering #SustainableTech #TechProducts #TechPlatforms #Nebraska #TechConference #softwaredevelopment #Technology #Programming #lincolnnebraska

The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism

https://petrapalusova.com/articles/tech-platforms-digital-economy-techno-feudalism

#HackerNews #TechnoFeudalism #TechPlatforms #DigitalEconomy #FutureOfWork #Innovation #Disruption

"The #techplatforms aren’t like the Medici in Florence, or those other rich patrons of the arts. They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.

#Addiction is the goal.

They don’t say it openly, but they don’t need to. Just look at what they do.

Everything is designed to lock users into an addictive cycle."

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

Because, of course, the hard facts & reality behind the disastrous #Crowdstrike #ITOutage weren't good enough 🙄
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The trend demonstrates the ability of falsehoods to mutate into #ViralNarratives on #TechPlatforms, which have scaled back #ContentModeration and reinstated accounts that are known purveyors of #misinformation.

#ConspiracyTheories take off after global IT crash
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-conspiracy-theories-global.html