tech France summons Musk for X criminal charges Ellsworth Toohey

Technology How Musk's decisions led to Grok making abusive deepfakes of kids Ellsworth Toohey

politics California bill targets social media algorithms spreading hate speech Ellsworth Toohey

Technology YouTube reverses ban on COVID-19 and election misinformation, blames Biden for pressuring it Ellsworth Toohey

social media Why unhinged lifehacks are on the rise Ellsworth Toohey

elon musk Surprise! 11 million Europeans ditch Elon's garbage fire platform Ellsworth Toohey

racism Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement Mark Frauenfelder

social media TikTok's bizarre priorities: Blurring cigarettes but allowing Nazi propaganda Yoy Luadha

social media Instagram's terrifying false positive nearly ruined a tech writer's life Mark Frauenfelder

Nazis, I hate those guys Elon Musk has turned Twitter into X: the Internet's Nazi bar Jason Weisberger

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

censorship Substack CEO refuses to say whether he would ban explicitly racist content Thom Dunn

encryption A glimpse at the messy future of Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app Thom Dunn

politics Something Awful's "Fuck You and Die" forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it's dead Cory Doctorow

twitter An important, elegant thought experiment on content moderation regulation Cory Doctorow

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censorship The platforms control our public discourse, and who they disconnect is arbitrary and capricious Cory Doctorow

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Technology X cuts payments clickbait aggregators Ellsworth Toohey