The traumatic lives of Facebook moderators;

Cognizant received a two-year, $200 million contract from Facebook to do the work, according to a former employee familiar with the matter. But in return for policing the boundaries of free expression on one of the internet’s largest platforms, individual contractors in North America make as little as $28,800 a year. They receive two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch each day, along with nine minutes per day of “wellness” time that they can use when they feel overwhelmed by the emotional toll of the job. After regular exposure to graphic violence and child exploitation, many workers are subsequently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and related conditions.

Yet they still manage to summon the strength to censor white bread conservative content. Where’s my violin?

into a hundred million pieces.

Breaking News: Twitter has decided that investigative journalism is in violation of their terms of service – @Project_Veritas has been temporarily suspended from posting for tweeting internal communications from @Pinterest which show them calling @benshapiro a "white supremacist" pic.twitter.com/eJNDWEfanf

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 12, 2019

In a hostile, dangerous environment Twitter will not protect you, your privacy, or your family.

In over 400 public seminars on science communication I spoke of Twitter as a necessary component of science communication, encouraging scientists and farmers to use twitter for sharing content and amplifying the work of others. I promoted the use of Twitter as a forum for discussion and debate.
 
Not any more. Stay away, or be very careful about what you post. The bottom line is that Twitter is now ruled by automated bots that target you, sock puppet accounts that will be dedicated to harming your reputation, and endless legions of trolls that all the blocking and muting will never block or mute. Twitter is the hive of the anonymous slander artist, those that pass out pitchforks and torches and then say, “Go get ‘em.”
 
Your reputation will suffer if you are a target. If you create positive change, Twitter’s trolls will tarnish it. If you make a mistake, you will pay forever with eternal reposting. It is all about character assassination.
 
Twitter also allows malicious posting of personal information, like social security numbers and bank account information. This happened to me, and after I lobbied a complaint, they eventually (after hours available) removed my social security number. Right now my bank account number, routing number and home address remain online 36 hours after posting and 24 hours after I first reported it.

That’s because as a pro-biotech ag researcher, Kevin Folta is the “wrong” kind of Twitter user. He should have told them he was transgender.

Twitter sentiment is a styrofoam iceberg. You may think 9/10 of it is underwater, but actually, 9/10 of it is visible.

It’s come to this.

Update:   Beginning of the end? We can only hope so.

It’s long. Don’t be put off by the political slant.

Into a hundred thousand million pieces.

Last year, Facebook was forced to admit that after months of pestering its users to switch on two-factor by signing up their phone number, it was also using those phone numbers to target users with ads. But some users are finding out just now that Facebook’s default setting allows everyone — with or without an account — to look up a user profile based off the same phone number previously added to their account.

And they wonder why people don’t like them.

More here.