ChandersDec 9, 2022

At this point the most important elite social media network in the western world has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (and possibly user) information for partisan / ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections.

I am not sure if this has fully sunk in.

Show threadChandersDec 9, 2022
Are journalists thinking about this? Are major news organizations internalizing this into their threat models? Are politicians and civil society actors? What are people thinking?
Show threadChandersDec 9, 2022
It just seems like an unmitigated disaster.
Show threadS.E.MacRaeDec 9, 2022
@Chanders given the lack of depth so many news organisations appear to have when writing about social media I would be surprised. I mean they take Jonathan Haidt's word when dealing with subject as if he were an objective actor. It was covered by the BBC on the 10.00 o'clock news last night as legitimate story of how Twitter held back the Biden Story no more than that. Very worrying indeed.
Show threadChanders
@Wsi2016 one of the things I realized is that a major player in this in the twitter end is apparently a well-known anti trans activist in the USA. Very disturbing.
Dec 9, 2022 at 1:24pmWeb
Show threadS.E.MacRaeDec 9, 2022
@Chanders absolutely - a thread today suggests that very person has apparently unfettered access to the sites back channels at an extremely high level