Stephanie MacLellan

@smaclellan
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Journalist-turned-wonk working at the intersection of comms and policy. Still nerding out over disinfo and security. Honorary Slovak. I don’t normally post this much about football. #AllezLesBleus she/her
@StephduChili 100%. So sad they lost, but with all those injuries at the beginning of the tournament, I was sure they would crash out in the first round. Still #FiersdetreBleus!
I don’t even recognize this team. Maybe they really do all have the flu. #FRA #WorldCup #putain
I know #FRA isn’t off to a good start but I can’t stand #ARG’s “let’s draw a penalty every 2 minutes” strategy. It’s cheap and tedious. #WorldCup
This is what Twitter is now defining as "doxxing people's location." A factual piece of reporting about the company blocking a competitor. Can't do anything until I delete it.
The folks at the margins are the canaries in the coal mine with #tech and #media. They should have been listened to a long time ago. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2018/12/crowdsourced-twitter-study-reveals-shocking-scale-of-online-abuse-against-women/ That said, they also have solutions that need to be heard. The recent banning of #journalists comes after academics who study far-right radicalization were banned and harassed from the site, which comes long, long, long after ordinary femme folks and #peopleofcolor told us about things like brigading and how to stop it.
Amnesty and Element AI release largest ever study into abuse against women on Twitter

Amnesty and Element AI calculated that 1.1 million abusive or problematic tweets were sent to the women in their study in 2017

Amnesty International
@lmgenealogy Thanks! It was super fun!

So I understand that the bird site has started blocking links to common/known Mastodon instances, and that doesn't seem like free speech to me. So... I did a thing.

If you go to https://spacekaren.sucks it is now a URL shortener that blocks the twitter user agent. That means you can share that link that will redirect to your Mastodon account without the pouty baby stopping you. If you find this helpful can you boost so others can find it? #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Musk #introduction

Space Karen Sucks

Free speech really should be free. To bypass the new censorship regime at twitter, use this URL shortener to link to Mastodon or other censored destinations. Considering recent policy decisions on twitter, please be aware that use of links generated from this site may constitute a violation of their policy.

@alexboyd You’re teaching them a valuable journalism skill about how to get people with full inboxes to pay attention to their interview requests
So it looks like I’m going to be on my local CBC (Canadian public radio) station in about an hour talking about my #FRA fandom? Sure, why not! #WorldCup #MastodonFC #allezlesbleus
“The destruction of safety & integrity teams at Twitter has been acutely felt in the US and Western economies, but it brought them in step w/ the rest of the world—abandoned and ignored by social media... Twitter had previously failed to fully develop transparent and accountable systems to ensure safety. It is this lack of structure that Musk has been able to weaponise” — #digitalrights activist Nighat Dad https://www.context.news/big-tech/opinion/safety-and-survival-on-twitter-around-the-world
Safety and survival on Twitter around the world | Context

As Twitter disintegrates, there is an opportunity to build solidarities that centre the experiences of marginalised communities