Michael Moss

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Journalist Carole Cadwalladr has published and lived at the coalface of big tech, data extraction, and democracy. Six year and a near ruinous SLAPP later, she’s back on the TED stage with a message worth hearing. https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript
Carole Cadwalladr: This is what a digital coup looks like

TED
Claims emerging that 43 Kenyan Facebook moderators contracted by Meta were laid off for unionising - the very same ones we learned were given no mental health support or regular pay last year https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-03-22-kenyan-judge-temporarily-blocks-mass-layoff-of-facebook-moderators/
LABOUR WOES: Kenyan judge temporarily blocks mass layoff of Facebook moderators

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.

Daily Maverick

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/

SANEF calls for competition reforms in support of journalism sustainability   » SANEF | Protecting Media Freedom

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.

SANEF | Protecting Media Freedom
New paper from 42 experts in misinfo (not me!) identifying the 10 most important interventions against online misinformation and manipulation and the evidence for them - paper https://psyarxiv.com/x8ejt/ and website with interactive tables summarizing the evidence https://interventionstoolbox.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/table_evidence.html.

Insight into how instagram's platform design enables and constrains the spread of #hatespeech and #misinformation on the platform

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2022/12/19/instagram-stories-and-the-spread-of-harmful-content-wheres-the-friction/

Instagram Stories and the spread of harmful content; where’s the friction?

Nathalie Van Raemdonck, a PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Media and Communication science, explains the implications of the lack of friction in how content spreads on Inst…

Media@LSE
Hubris doesn’t scrape the surface
Seems like the birdsite curation team missed an important email…something about the free promotion of 3rd-party social media platforms 😁

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

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...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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

#xp

Promotion of Alternative Social Platforms Policy | Twitter Help

New Twitter policy bans links out to several social sites. Deeper into the actual policy, also bans on link aggregators. It’s stupid on its face, but it also kills what makes the site go. These people are so inept.