Covid
An army of keyboard warriors is being recruited to mass report anti-vaccine social media posts
The group of self-described moderators will take it upon themselves to flag anti-vaccine posts to platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Pelosi calls on advertisers to use their “position of power”, get social media to censor more “misinformation”
Pelosi wants social platforms to be hit where it hurts.
MembersMany apps on your phone have pivoted to selling your location data to coronavirus researchers and others
? And the companies aren’t always disclosing it.
Over 70% of Americans won’t download any contact tracing app
Privacy fears are cited.
Coronavirus lockdowns have decimated small businesses, but Big Tech is booming
The havoc that multi-month lockdowns have wreaked on economies around the world is only starting to become apparent and will take a long time to be fully understood, but not everyone is emerging as a loser from this unprecedented crisis. There’s been a massive transfer of wealth from small busi
YouTube says indie creators are 20x less likely to top corona search results than “high authority channels”
YouTube has previously admitted that users don’t like “authoritative” sources yet it continues propping them up in search.
YouTube simultaneously bans videos about flouting social distancing rules, yet boosts protest videos
YouTube has given an update on the impact of its controversial new rules.
Facebook says meme featuring British band The Cure causes “physical harm”, censors it
Facebook took the meme down as part of its coronavirus rules.
Facebook fact-checks WHO statements, but also uses WHO to fact-check others
Deciding to be the arbiter of truth was always going to end in disaster.
UK contact tracing app breaches GDPR, will store personal user data for 20 years
The apps have been a privacy nightmare from the start.
Straggling journos target Twitch with old-news accusations of corona conspiracies
We’re not out of the zone of lazy journalism just yet.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admits media coverage influences which censored videos get reinstated
Why is YouTube relying on media coverage rather than the content of the video or the qualifications of the doctor when making this decision?