Mastodawn

Maleficurious Dec 8, 2022

WesDym Dec 7, 2022

"[Facebook] approved nine of the ten English-language death threats for publication and six of the ten Spanish-language death threats."

https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/02/facebook_ads_screening/

Facebook approved 75% of ads threatening US election workers

Not a good look for Meta's content moderation team

The Register

Maleficurious Dec 8, 2022

GovTrack.us Dec 7, 2022

Apparently Rep. Gosar has tweeted that he supports the former President’s post exhorting someone - unclear who it would be - to “terminate the rules” of the Constitution prohibiting the former President’s immediate installation as current president bc of his fantasy that he didn’t really lose 2020. Like presidents, members of Congress take an oath to _uphold_ the Constitution. There is no exception for “but the guy I like is big mad he lost”. Seems like a good reason for an ethics investigation.

Maleficurious Dec 8, 2022

LOL, I was hoping they'd learn something from public backlash, but who was I kidding? They really are going through with this shit I guess?

Right before the holidays, timed with a price hike, & on the heels of a mostly-disastrous half-ass try at gender representation in their programming, they suddenly care about gender, but only for this.

Fuckin unbelievable, #Disney really is the worst. Oh and you really should support #DisneyMustPay

Maleficurious Dec 4, 2022

Jay Rosen Dec 3, 2022

Politico put it this way:

"The former president and the person that polls show is still the most likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024, today on Truth Social called for the suspension of the Constitution."

This poses a problem for journalists who would cover the 2024 election. By what logic can that coverage proceed?

Neutrality makes sense only within a constitutional order that his candidacy is trying to upend. "Just report the news" pretends this will be a normal campaign.

#journalism

Maleficurious Dec 2, 2022

DeanObeidallah Dec 2, 2022

UNREAL! "Elon Musk Allows Editor of Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer Back on Twitter." This vile person is the one I sued after he and the his followers threatened to kill me for demanding Trump denounce white supremacists. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/neo-nazi-website-hit-4-1-million-defamation-penalty-n1016886

Neo-Nazi website hit with $4.1 million defamation penalty

A federal judge has awarded $4.1 million to a Muslim-American radio host who accused a neo-Nazi website operator of falsely accusing him of terrorism.

NBC News

Maleficurious Dec 2, 2022

DeanObeidallah Dec 2, 2022

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter: Slurs against Blacks up from 1,282 times a day to 3,876 times a day. Antisemitic posts soared by more than 61%. Slurs against gay men up from 2,506 times to 3,964 times a day. Why would corporations advertise on Twitter? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Under Elon Musk Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find

Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said.

The New York Times

Maleficurious Dec 2, 2022

simon.old Dec 2, 2022

I found this setting in the @tootapp:

Enforce image descriptions, Disable posting a new toot until you set descriptions for all images.
It's off by default (I wish it had a middle "reminder option as default instead), but if you're using this app and would like to make sure images all have descriptions, now you can.

Maleficurious Dec 2, 2022

levelbot Dec 2, 2022

bullshit levels are 34% and steady

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Maleficurious Dec 2, 2022

levelbot Nov 28, 2022

tests are showing nightmare levels at 38%

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Maleficurious Nov 26, 2022

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