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Old 30th May 2020, 08:05     #281
Cyberbob
 
I love it. They're small stabs but they're sharp.

First his personal account gets slapped with fact checking disclaimers.
Then it gets hit with glorifying violence banners.
Then the official White House account retweets and also gets hit with violence banners.

Hilarious.
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Old 30th May 2020, 17:38     #282
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Laugh

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Twitter's executive offices.
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Old 30th May 2020, 19:11     #283
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Quote:
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Twitter's executive offices.
That conversation where they decided they will put someone full time on flagging his posts
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Old 30th May 2020, 20:32     #284
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Everything Trump is doing is performative and the audience is Zuckerberg
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Old 30th May 2020, 21:43     #285
Cyberbob
 
Quote:
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Everything Trump is doing is performative and the audience is Zuckerberg
Which made this aussie article that much better.


“Social media should not fact check posts” says child molester Mark Zuckerberg
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Old 31st May 2020, 03:12     #286
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Quote:
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Everything Trump is doing is performative and the audience is Zuckerberg
What's Twitters angle? Just having an adventure?
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Old 31st May 2020, 18:30     #287
Ab
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Core difference:
  • Twitter is a broadcast medium and Trump is its biggest celebrity.
  • Facebook determines who becomes President.

Twitter also has a massive leadership vacuum given that it has a part-time CEO who isn't even sure if he lives in the USA. Twitter doesn't have a strong boss who will take a stand against Trump hijacking the service, and Trump knows it. Trump is able to smell weakness and chaos like a shark can smell blood.

Every time some junior employee slaps a "fact check" warning on a Trump tweet, while leaving the Trump account active, it makes Trump stronger. If Twitter leadership had any balls the account @realdonaldtrump would be suspended for the duration of the Trump presidency and he should be required to use the @POTUS account. Posts made there are official publications of the Executive Branch with all that that entails.
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Old 9th June 2020, 11:36     #288
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
https://twitter.com/SiouxsieW/status...80542847807489
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Old 9th June 2020, 12:42     #289
StN
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Old 13th June 2020, 12:30     #290
StN
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Hmmm - Amazon wants to give me $10 if I upload my pics to their hosting platform and display them on my Echo Show as a digital photo frame. Seems innocuous - but why are they paying me? Oh - I see, they turn on image recognition by default to tag your pics and build backend meta data. Terms are TL:DR for me at this stage, but I think if I do, I'll be resetting the defaults before anything else.

Or I'll by a skylightframe.com one instead and just get vSpammed by those who know the email address.
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Old 14th June 2020, 19:58     #291
Lightspeed
 
I live in a world where between fake and real, either option is absurd to me.

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Old 25th June 2020, 13:31     #292
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Facebook is "aiding and abetting the spread of climate misinformation,” said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Drexel University. “They have become the vehicle for climate misinformation, and thus should be held partially responsible for a lack of action on climate change.”

Brulle was reacting to Facebook's recent decision, made at the request of climate science deniers, to create a giant loophole in its fact-checking program. Last year, Facebook partnered with an organization, Science Feedback, that would bring in teams of Ph.D. climate scientists to evaluate the accuracy of viral content. It was an important expansion of the company's third-party fact-checking program.

But now Facebook has reportedly decided to allow its staffers to overrule the climate scientists and make any climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it "opinion."

The organization that requested the change, the CO2 Coalition, is celebrating, E&E news reported on Monday. The group, which has close ties to the fossil fuel industry, says its views on climate change are increasingly ignored by the mainstream media. Now it plans to use Facebook to aggressively push climate misinformation on the public — without having to worry about fact checks from climate scientists.

https://popular.info/p/facebook-crea...king-exemption
In the interests of balance, I will point out that on the other hand... growth. Sweet sweet stock-price-boosting growth.
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Old 22nd July 2020, 17:08     #293
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 


#loveislove
#love-sees-no-race
#love-sees-no-gender
#love-sees-no-age
#wait-what
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Old 22nd July 2020, 18:28     #294
crocos
 
Fucking English with only one word for "love" despite there being many kinds.

Take the question: You love your kids right?

This is QUITE different from asking: You want to boff your kids, right?"

Does that mean you don't love your kids? Don't be stupid. Of course not.

Same with that poster - it's not meant to be about romantic love or anything sexual.
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Old 22nd July 2020, 18:30     #295
crocos
 
And if that last line of mine was wrong, and it IS meant to be about sexual/romantic love, then as you were - sick fuckers need to be taken DOWN.
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Old 22nd July 2020, 20:03     #296
fixed_truth
 
It is meant to be about sexual/romantic love but apparently it's 4chan trolling.
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Old 22nd July 2020, 21:47     #297
Ab
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MAPphobia
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Old 12th August 2020, 20:11     #298
Ab
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jAcInDa tO iMpOsE MaRtIaL lAw
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Old 23rd September 2020, 13:02     #299
Nich
 
Joey B Toonz commentary on "influencers":

Narcissists and #SOCIALMEDIA
Johnny Bravo duck lips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKEGtLsjnA

Dancing on car crashes, amber-lamps, and holocaust memorials for likes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWekLbqIFSk

Stripper poles on the beach with sewerage trucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW6Mp6B2zyw

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Old 25th September 2020, 08:29     #300
pxpx
 
looks like that youtube just rips content from @influencersinthewild on instagram and comments on it

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Old 26th September 2020, 12:36     #301
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Anyone watched "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix?
https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81254224

If you're into this stuff it's some of the most insightful voices (Harris, Zuboff, Lanier, et al) but it's done in a glossy infotainment voice that might actually get through to some people.

BTW just in case I haven't recommended this in the reading thread, Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is one of the greatest things I've read lately:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Age-Survei...1080457&sr=8-1
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Old 15th October 2020, 18:05     #302
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Re-he-healllly

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...t-hunter-biden
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Old 15th October 2020, 23:50     #303
Lightspeed
 
It just seems all very arbitrary.
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Old 16th October 2020, 00:06     #304
crocos
 
FB have deplatformed Advance NZ / NZPP's page - saw them bitching about it on Twitter and laughed.
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Old 16th October 2020, 00:39     #305
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Yeah, I thought that was pretty funny.

It will be interesting to see how Jamie Lee lands. Sounds like he has funding. Will he stake his career on freeing voters from the tyranny of reason?
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Old 16th October 2020, 02:02     #306
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It just seems all very arbitrary.
The number crunchers at these social media companies have looked at the polls, and are calculating their risk exposure if Biden wins.

Turns out that having a business model of "be the President's unofficial PR team and publish his lies about political enemies" only works long-term if the Oval Office never changes hands.

If Biden wins, Elizabeth Warren will be at the cabinet table and she'll be carrying a bat with BREAK UP BIG TECH written on it. These c*nts are just preparing their "please don't hit us Miz Warren, we're the good guys, look at how we banned those posts" performances.
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Old 16th October 2020, 10:25     #307
Ab
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YouTube bans QAnon, other conspiracy content that targets individuals

"Pleeeeeease Ms Warren"
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Old 16th October 2020, 10:37     #308
Ab
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Coming thick and fast now, Biden's numbers must be looking really strong.

Twitter Inc. will remove posts that deny the Holocaust for violating its hateful conduct policy, according to a company spokeswoman.
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Old 17th October 2020, 16:29     #309
xor
 
I always think back to Hitch and his talk about David Irving when I think about censorship. This is terrabad.
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Old 17th October 2020, 20:58     #310
Trigga*happY
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ab
Core difference:
  • Twitter is a broadcast medium and Trump is its biggest celebrity.
  • Facebook determines who becomes President.

Twitter also has a massive leadership vacuum given that it has a part-time CEO who isn't even sure if he lives in the USA. Twitter doesn't have a strong boss who will take a stand against Trump hijacking the service, and Trump knows it. Trump is able to smell weakness and chaos like a shark can smell blood.

Every time some junior employee slaps a "fact check" warning on a Trump tweet, while leaving the Trump account active, it makes Trump stronger. If Twitter leadership had any balls the account @realdonaldtrump would be suspended for the duration of the Trump presidency and he should be required to use the @POTUS account. Posts made there are official publications of the Executive Branch with all that that entails.
TeamTrmp twitter account suspended removing violating material.... Interesting!
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Old 24th October 2020, 18:10     #311
Lightspeed
 
Nurse has registration cancelled following racist social media posts

Seems like a balanced outcome.
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Old 25th October 2020, 20:58     #312
Lightspeed
 
Social media baiting via weaponised lazy journalism:

A new twist on fake news

Quote:
News of a new golliwogs sales outlet here in New Zealand turned out to be a hoax designed to trick the media - which worked. But it was also designed to harass a journalist who lifts the lid on hoaxers, trolls and fake news.
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Old 17th November 2020, 10:14     #313
Nich
 


Claim to be a paragon of truth, get compared to previous monopolies on truth.
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Old 22nd January 2021, 14:19     #314
Lightspeed
 
Did everyone spontaneously applaud Amanda Palmer in a Havelock North café?

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Joe Biden had barely finished calling for unity when Amanda Palmer posted a tweet that split New Zealand in two. Her message began innocuously. “Just walked into a coffee shop here in Aotearoa New Zealand,” she said, believably. But then, the kicker: “and everybody behind the counter, not really knowing me but knowing I was American, erupted in spontaneous applause”

Palmer’s claim was incendiary. It didn’t mesh with the Aotearoa New Zealand many of us thought we knew, where any achievement, from getting an A on an assignment to winning the Rugby World Cup, is met with a grim nod and a stern reminder not to get too full of yourself. She was asserting that New Zealanders were not just nice, but effusively nice in public. It had to be a lie.
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Old 22nd January 2021, 15:27     #315
Ab
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/r/thathappened

white american women love posting invented stories about getting applause in cafes, it's a weird meme.
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Old 22nd January 2021, 21:29     #316
xor
 
Are you saying you don't #believeallwomen?

Misogynistic piece of shit
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Old 22nd January 2021, 23:02     #317
Lightspeed
 
#alwaysdoubtsocialmedia
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Old 23rd January 2021, 01:12     #318
Ab
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I stepped up to the counter for my vegan gluten-free latte without a mask and a nigg--brown person behind the counter did verbal violence to me by saying I needed to wear a mask and I walked out and the last thing I heard was the whole cafe spontaneously applauding
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Old 23rd January 2021, 01:13     #319
Ab
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and this guy was so offended that he vomited and the sight of the vomit made everyone else vomit and then it was a total barf-o-rama and it really 100% happened
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Old 4th April 2021, 09:29     #320
Nich
 
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world...ne/ar-BB1fgzie

FB spokesperson assures us that the data is old. You know, people's old names, old phone numbers, old email . It makes me want to double delete my already deleted FB account.
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