Erin Gallagher

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Disinformation researcher, Technology and Social Change Project @TaSCResearch @ShorensteinCtr
Also at: https://twitter.com/3r1nG (for now)
Rewriting the rules for the way police analyze big data: Federal Constitutional Court’s decision dealt a blow to the 19-year-old police ambitions of #Palantir in Europe’s biggest market https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-germany-gotham-dragnet/
Germany Raises Red Flags About Palantir’s Big Data Dragnet

A court has issued strict limits on how police can pull innocent bystanders into big data investigations.

WIRED

Any journalist who is happy *some* of you have had your #Twitter accounts restored, while others are STILL #suspended without a shred of justification, simply do not understand where #elonmusk is going with this.

He plans on monetizing the mob to humiliate you and keep you compliant. Your intentional targeting and discomfort will be a financially valuable form of entertainment.

Just because I was curious what it would look like, I made a retweet #graph of 19,319 tweets containing query "elonmusk" from today (12/16/22)

The #network includes any account replying to, mentioning or retweeting his tweets, supporters and detractors.

Made with #gephi

#datavisualization #dataviz #twitter

If you're over here, you may have missed that Matt Taibbi is pushing a new batch of "Twitter Files" over on the other site... and once again seems to not understand the context of ANYTHING he's looking at, while presenting it in the most conspiratorially misleading way possible.

Yes, the FBI alerted Twitter to tweets that told people to vote on the wrong day. And asked Twitter if they violated policy. That's basically it.

Oh I just realized there’s no inline translation on here. 😔 That’s too bad, hope it’s in the works.
Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger

Many of the journalists, including from The Washington Post and New York Times, had written about dramas surrounding billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

The Washington Post
Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:

NYT's statement:

"Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action."

RT @brenonade
Here is Elon’s full appearance in @katienotopoulos’ spaces with banned journalists tonight
#Twitter is blocking links out to #Mastodon. Here are the errors I got tonight when I tried to click the link to my Mastodon profile from a tweet and when I tried to tweet a link to my Mastodon profile: "link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful" 🧐