Tag: Twitter

… Free Our Feeds …

Campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech   As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires. The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the … Continue reading … Free Our Feeds … →

… Twitter just closed the book on academic research …

/ Twitter was once an indispensable resource for academic research. That’s changed under Elon Musk. Twitter was once a mainstay of academic research — a way to take the pulse of the internet. But as new owner Elon Musk has attempted to monetize the service, researchers are struggling to replace a once-crucial tool. Unless Twitter … Continue reading … Twitter just closed the book on academic research … →

… Elon Musk’s Disastrous Weekend On Twitter …

Things are only going to get worse. On Sunday morning, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the new owner of Twitter, replied to a tweet from Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s tweet was a link to an L.A. Times report detailing the troubled, conspiracy-theory-laden online past of the man who invaded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home … Continue reading … Elon Musk’s Disastrous Weekend On Twitter … →

…What Facebook Did to American Democracy…

      ....and why was it so hard to see it coming?............ Luchenko Yana / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic What Facebook Did to American Democracy In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after. Things we … Continue reading …What Facebook Did to American Democracy… →

….Smartphone Dystopia….Our Minds Can Be Hijacked…..

Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet.  Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention Justin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits … Continue reading ….Smartphone Dystopia….Our Minds Can Be Hijacked….. →