twitter Twitter's new policy: reduced enforcement for hate speech, alleged leaked documents show Mark Frauenfelder
elon musk European Commission gives Twitter 24 hours to stop spreading "illegal content and disinformation" in the EU Mark Frauenfelder
politics Something Awful's "Fuck You and Die" forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it's dead Cory Doctorow
1a The platforms suck at content moderation and demanding they do more won't make them better at it — but there ARE concrete ways to improve moderation Cory Doctorow
censorship The platforms control our public discourse, and who they disconnect is arbitrary and capricious Cory Doctorow
youtube YouTube accused of refusing to remove scam ads featuring deepfaked Elon Musk: "We found that the ad doesn't go against Google's policies" Rob Beschizza
law Australia fines Twitter over failure to co-operate with Child Sexual Abuse Material probe Rob Beschizza
capitalism "Discard Studies" argues that "social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things" Jennifer Sandlin
Science Scientists, disturbed by anti-science and far-right content, starting to leave Twitter Rob Beschizza