Bias and b/s would be baked-into the proposed scheme Recently NBC news came into a leaked demo, which was confirmed by Twitter, of a system to allow verified users to correct and flag misinformation, directly below the tweet. Any tweets flagged as misinformation will have their visibility reduced across the system.
Of Interest
It begins: Facebook cancels our ads boosting House of Commons Petition
For the second time in less than a month, Facebook has canceled a boosted post from easyDNS. The first occasion was on Feb 3rd when we posed the question on whether social media platforms should be the final arbiters of truth (response from Facebook: “yes”). Note the boost was originally approved and then canceled mid-run. […]
Should Woke Social Media Barons be the Arbiters of Truth?
On Friday night (Jan 31), a few days after my new book about deplatforming and cancel culture came out, the news broke that Twitter had permanently suspended Zerohedge for breaking the platform’s policies. The move was taken in response to an article penned by Buzzfeed writer Ryan Broderick which falsely accused Zerohedge of “doxxing” a […]
No, Paul Krugman’s IP didn’t get hacked and he didn’t get caught with nasty stuff on his laptop.
Yesterday New York Times columnist tweeted an astonishing comment, saying that his computer had been hacked and it’s IP address was being used to download child p*rn0graphy. He has since deleted the original tweet, but it had been captured enough times and circulated far and wide. I found it curious, to be tweeting that. However, […]
Beware: The Techno-Doom-Loop
[ Update: I’m old enough that I should have known it, but Russ Nelson points out in the comments that there is a jargon file entry for this: Yak-Shaving ] There’s a concept I’ve been trying to articulate for some time. The problem is during the episodes where I want to articulate it, I’m so […]
Unassailable: The book that protects you from Cancel-Culture and Deplatform Attacks
UPDATE April 23,2020: I’ve decided to make the ebook version of my latest book: Unassailable Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks, Cancel-Culture and other Online Disasters available for free, follow this link. You can read why here. Originally, this was supposed to be a 15 or 20 page ebook / report we were going to give […]
