| Sphere | South African in London |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Birdsite | https://twitter.com/MichaelMoss_1 |
A Kenyan judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the mass redundancy of about 260 Facebook content moderators working for an outsourcing company contracted by the social media site's parent company Meta, court documents show.
Research by the South African National Editors Forum sets out how competition law reform can support sustainable journalism #competitionlaw #digitalmarkets
https://sanef.org.za/sanef-calls-for-competition-reforms-in-support-of-journalism-sustainability/
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) has released a position paper on journalism sustainability and competition in the digital economy, exploring ways in which competition law processes can be used to ensure fair competition between news organisations and tech platforms such as Google and Meta/Facebook.
Insight into how instagram's platform design enables and constrains the spread of #hatespeech and #misinformation on the platform
A simple and digestible piece from @eff outlining the harms of online behaviour-based ad tracking and calling for its ban #privacy #adtracking
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/ban-online-behavioral-advertising
Tech companies earn staggering profits by targeting ads to us based on our online behavior. This incentivizes all online actors to collect as much of our behavioral information as possible, and then sell it to ad tech companies and the data brokers that service them. This pervasive online...
Demanding people remove links to #Mastodon and other social media accounts is unreasonable and anti-competitive.
I won’t be amending my profile details.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
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