I know it’s had its ups and downs, but I don’t care what anyone says – Twitter is still fun.
This is why the internet laughs at you with every new round of newsroom layoffs.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 13, 2023
I know it’s had its ups and downs, but I don’t care what anyone says – Twitter is still fun.
This is why the internet laughs at you with every new round of newsroom layoffs.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 13, 2023
From this broader thread on tech-enabled state censorship by Michael Shellenberger, so read it all;
The “FBI, the federal law enforcement agency responsible for disrupting foreign malign influence, facilitated censorship requests to American social media companies on behalf of a Ukrainian intelligence agency infiltrated by Russian-aligned actors.”
National Post- Ottawa, Quebec pull advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram
The federal and Quebec governments will stop advertising on Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram as the conflict between the company and Ottawa heats up over legislation that would force web giants to share revenues with news publishers.
Not so fast there buckaroo…
But the Liberal government’s decision does not extend to the party. Liberal Party of Canada spokesperson Parker Lund said in a statement that the party would continue to advertise on Meta-owned platforms. According to the company’s ad library, the party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month.
Happy birthday, America — and RIP to its newly erected “Ministry of Truth.” That term comes directly from federal Judge Terry Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana, who issued an injunction a couple of hours ago that takes direct aim at the government-media censorship complex. Concluding that plaintiffs in the lawsuit have a strong likelihood of proving that the US government suppressed dissent — and particularly conservative dissent — Doughty ordered the Biden administration and its executive agencies to cease any coordination with social-media companies…
Google- An update on Canada’s Bill C-18 and our Search and News products
We have now informed the Government that when the law takes effect, we unfortunately will have to remove links to Canadian news from our Search, News and Discover products in Canada, and that C-18 will also make it untenable for us to continue offering our Google News Showcase product in Canada.
‘Cisgender’ and ‘Cis’ Are Now Considered Slurs on Twitter.
In Feb. 2020, after a @nypost oped said COVID-19 came from a lab leak, Facebook censored the story. Why? Because "independent fact-checkers" said it was "False information." Not only was it true information, one of the fact-checkers had worked at the labhttps://t.co/7sPmKdpOYH
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) June 14, 2023
Brandon Jackson- A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon
I have a smart home, and my primary means of interfacing with all the devices and automations is through Amazon Echo devices via Alexa. This incident left me with a house full of unresponsive devices, a silent Alexa, and a lot of questions.
The sequence of events that led to this digital exile began innocuously enough. A package was delivered to my house on Wednesday, May 24, and everything seemed fine. The following day, however, I found that my Echo Show had signed out, and I was unable to interact with my smart home devices.
When I connected with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked. When I answered I was unsure, their tone turned somewhat accusatory. I was told that the driver who had delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my “Ring doorbell” (it’s actually a Eufy, but I’ll let it slide).
Upload the video here on your X/Twitter account!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2023
Meet Caryn Majorie.
She’s a 23-year-old Snapchat Influencer.
She made an AI version of herself “CarynAI”.
You can chat with her AI bot for $1/min.
She made $71,610 this week.
She says she could earn $5m/month.
Things are about to get weird…
(@cutiecaryn) pic.twitter.com/WTshQeditw
— Lorenzo Green 〰️ (@mrgreen) May 12, 2023
h/t Scott
Twitter Journalist Loses Blue Check pic.twitter.com/fFCgP1qlnL
— Ryan Long (@ryanlongcomedy) April 22, 2023
“I’ve never had a Twitter account. I don’t intend on having a Twitter account, and I’ve had nothing to do with Twitter. “
The Fauci Files are finally out.
1) Twitter Files #FauciPharmaFiles
Last December, @elonmusk sent out his viral tweet about Fauci.
Fauci went on Fox News and said he had "no clue what [Elon] was talking about." pic.twitter.com/L0RIZVRsEO
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) April 20, 2023
Related, from Judicial Watch;
Judicial Watch announced today it received 552 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which include the initial grant application and annual reports to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from EcoHealth Alliance, describing the aim of its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to create mutant viruses “to better predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people.”
Eco Health planned to sequence the spike protein from coronaviruses obtained from bats for the purpose of “creating mutants to identify how significantly each would need to evolve to use ACE2,” which is explained as “the receptor to gain entry to human cells.” […]
In the initial “Application for Federal Assistance” submitted on June 5, 2013, by EcoHealth Alliance, a section is titled “Specific Aims,” which notes the intention to create mutant bat viruses and “predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people:”
Over 1.4 million people are currently listening to Elon musk talking to BBC things are getting heated https://t.co/8WfdTBcZ68
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 12, 2023
@stillgray – Elon Musk is absolutely embarrassing this idiot BBC reporter on stage about the supposed rise in hate speech. The guy can’t name a single example of hate speech.Update: clip here.
OMG
BBC slug: So you took away the Covid misinformation labels
Elon: You mean about the BBC's misinformation about Covid? For example not reporting the side effect of vaccinations because the British govt pressured you?
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) April 12, 2023
One of the most notorious privacy-breaching tech companies in operation, Clearview AI, has, according to its CEO, scraped 30 billion social media photos, packaged and curated them, and passed them along to the surveillance state authorities to do with what they will…