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🧵1/ Social media permanently changed American political campaigning, but only Republicans have changed with it.

Donald Trump won the 2024 election, not because people liked him, but because his party understands network marketing in the social media age.

https://plus.flux.community/p/republicans-treat-politics-like-viral

How tech companies are pushing us to use AI ?

On the occasion of the publication of our scientific paper, we share with you an English translation of our study that analyzes the stratagems exploited in interfaces to encourage or force us to use AI, whether you want it or not.

→ https://limitesnumeriques.fr/travaux-productions/ai-forcing/en

#AIresearch #AI

Finally finished Careless People, and first of all: definitely recommend if you want a better idea of how the insides of some of these tech companies function in practice. Also good if you want to get very upset.

There's a lot to unpack from the book, but what's really sitting with me right now is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar. 🧵

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government [1]

👉Government datasets modified without notice.

▪️We gathered metadata from the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and Veterans Affairs database harvest sources [... ] that were modified between Jan 20 and March 25, 2025.

▪️We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered.

⭐SOME CHANGES⭐

- “Social determinants of health” to “non
medical factors”
- “Gender” to “sex”
- “female details” column deleted

▪️The agencies involved have not issued any statements confirming or explaining these changes [...]

▪️Despite Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's (Department of Health and Humana Services) calls for “radical transparency”, unlogged data manipulation moves away from meaningful transparency.

▪️Only 15 (13%) of the 114 altered datasets logged or otherwise indicated that the change had occurred.

[1] 🌐https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext

@publichealth @psychology @sociology @datascience #publichealth #datascience #science #research #health #government #criticalthinking #hhs #cdc #va @bicmay

Today in 2010, 15 years ago: in Argentina, the government of Cristina Kirchner approves the bill that allows same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. Argentina is the first Latin American country to implement it and the tenth worldwide.

#OnThisDay

“Instead of students presenting class projects, the event featured leading researchers from across the country standing in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.”

👀 On our radar: Fair of cancelled science, via @npr
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5461062/science-fair-canceled-funding-nih-federal

Yours truly's newest article. On gendered disinformation by the manosphere in India. It covers various angles of the disinfo and networked discourse: social, political and religious and how they intermingle. And suggests some solutions. This is no longer a niche issue. It's pervasive and dangerous. Plenty of research (academic and practitioner works) cited in my article.
https://genderit.org/feminist-talk/challenging-gendered-disinformation-indias-manosphere-requires-systemic-change

#gender #disinformation #GenderedDisinformation #manosphere #OGBV #TFGBV #incels #currycels

TIL: if you block someone on Discord, you stop seeing their messages, and they can't ping you anymore, but they can still see your messages.

This feels like an important public service to pass on.

As described here: https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/what-happens-when-you-block-someone-on-discord?op=1 (and described absolutely fucking nowhere in the Discord documentation I found in a quick search on the topic).