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4 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Is this a premature claim of election victory? Image
That was fast @Twitter. ImageImage
To clarify, Twitter has flagged and hidden the tweet in which Trump claimed "they are trying to STEAL the Election" as potential election misinformation. Trump's "big WIN!" tweet so far has not been flagged under Twitter's policy on premature claims of victory. Image
Twitter spox confirms this is accurate as to their policies and enforcement decisions on Trump's tweets at this time.
Meanwhile, Facebook is labeling posts from *both* Trump and Biden with relatively anodyne messaging about the votes still being counted, but does not appear to have taken enforcement action on any. ImageImage
The one Trump post about "stealing the election" carries a differently worded message on Facebook, but is not hidden as it is on Twitter, and carries no implication that Trump said anything misleading. Feels like a "both-sides" policy crafted to avoid angering the right. Image
Here the @WSJ reports that Facebook is "clarifying" that its policy allows Trump to claim victory in individual battleground states before the race has been called, as long as he doesn't claim victory overall.

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4 Nov
The disconnect I keep coming back to is the one between the Trump that the news media has reported on for 4 years, and the Trump that 60+ million Americans just voted for. They aren't the same person. Those voters for the most part simply do not believe what we write or say.
I think all the media criticism about the need for NYT, CNN etc. to call Trump’s lies and racism for what they are was correct on its own merits. But the idea that the word choices of NYT, CNN etc. have any real *impact* on Trump or the GOP seems a bit deluded at this point, no?
To clarify, as some replies have noted, the issue obviously is not just that Trump voters don't believe the MSM, but that they hardly consume it at all, bc a right-wing media apparatus exists to serve them a very different set of facts and to reinforce their mistrust of the news.
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4 Nov
Everyone's hating on the needles right now, but as analytical tools they should be judged on their stability & alignment w/ ultimate results, not the mood they put people in at a given time. So far, they appear to have been ahead of the curve on Florida and Georgia...
The NYT needles have consistently given Trump a slim lead in NC, while all the cable news channels show Biden leading in early returns and have made vague noises about "encouraging signs" for Biden there.

If Trump wins NC, the needles were ahead of the curve and thus useful.
If and only if Biden goes on to win one of Florida, Georgia, or North Carolina, it will be fair to criticize the NYT needles as having been premature and misleading in their predictions. The needles swung all three toward Trump significantly before any cable news pundits did.
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19 Sep
I see people already throwing in the towel and treating it as a foregone conclusion that the GOP will commit an act of monstrously blatant hypocrisy by filling RBG’s seat before the election.

That’s cowardly. They may do it, but treating it as expected is a form of surrender.
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ginsburg said just days before she died.

How would she feel to see her own allies out here on Twitter declaring the fight over before it has started? With her body still warm?
There was never any doubt Trump & McConnell would *try* to fill the seat. They made that clear long ago. The question is whether the media/dems/public clear the path by framing it as the obvious move, or harder by treating every GOP vote to confirm as the travesty it would be.
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15 Sep
~cranky old man tweet~

Bank of America has been "experiencing longer-than-usual hold times" of 2+ hours to talk to a human about how they screwed up our account for at least 3 solid weeks.

How is a company like this still in business, let alone the 2nd-largest bank in America?
me rn Image
Two hours on hold with Bank if America. Thirty minutes on the phone trying to solve the screwup. And finally...

They dropped the call. They’re not allowed to take my number for a callback. So I have to start over with another two hours on hold and a new service rep. Amazing.
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5 Sep
I wrote about how Facebook’s “operational mistake” in Kenosha wasn’t a mistake so much as the inevitable result of a cynical strategy to distance itself from the hard, ugly, high-stakes work of content moderation by outsourcing it to underpaid contractors. onezero.medium.com/how-facebook-c…
There is no excuse, especially after the Kenosha Guard “mistake,” for Facebook to still be outsourcing content moderation.

This week’s Pattern Matching ft. interviews with @ubiquity75 & @AuthorPMBarrett onezero.medium.com/how-facebook-c…
Content moderation is:
- hard
- high-stakes
- sensitive
- critical to FB’s business

So why doesn’t Facebook treat it like AI or product management, recruiting and training the most skilled people it can find? Here’s @AuthorPMBarrett’s theory: link.medium.com/XGET8lP1A9 Image
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27 Aug
I wrote last fall about Amazon's evolution into a surveillance company—the "everywhere store." onezero.medium.com/amazon-just-be…

Today it announced a fitness band that makes 3D scans of your body and monitors your tone of voice: theverge.com/2020/8/27/2140…
Holy crap. A major insurer, John Hancock, has already partnered with Amazon to give people free Halos in exchange for feeding it their intimate personal data, which it will use to adjust premiums.

My colleague @emilylmullin w/ the dystopian scoop: onezero.medium.com/want-a-free-am…
The idea that you could face discrimination on goods like insurance if you opt out of big tech's surveillance-for-profit regime used to be held up as a theoretical worst-case scenario. But as John Hancock's Amazon partnership shows, it's already here. onezero.medium.com/want-a-free-am… Image
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