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17 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Punchy move from Facebook. It's just turned off news in Australia as part of its mission to - checks notes - 'build innovative & sustainable ways to support journalism for the long term'
Your reminder of how much Facebook values journalism

theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
This is FB exec who's the face of this decision. She was also sent out as the face of FB's response to Cambridge Analytica scandal. Other times, she's serving hors d'oeuvres to senior editors in her 'airy Tribeca apartment'. Spin. Spin. Spin.

nytimes.com/2018/04/21/tec…
Facebook doesn't want Australia to decide what to do news. Facebook wants to decide what to do with news! 'We think we can do more through the Facebook Journalism Project'. Of course, they do. This is the @oversightboard problem all over again. Facebook wants to regulate Facebook
Never forget: Facebook turned off access to evidence-based journalism for an entire country in the middle of a global pandemic.

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18 Feb
Here we go again
Justified anger across Australia now jumping continents. #DeleteFacebook first trended after Cambridge Analytica. Now a regular occurrence. I'm v curious to know how Facebook has gamed this out. It must have known this would happen. So...what's the play?
thewest.com.au/technology/fac…
Then again, this is the take from influential tech journalist, @CaseyNewton. If Facebook's press team took soundings from the journalists it likes and respects, maybe it missed the roiling anger that everyone else feels
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12 Feb
This is a good, careful, exhaustingly researched piece by @klonick. That Facebook, Nick Clegg & the entire Oversight Board must be absolutely thrilled with. The ultimate imprimatur of legitimacy: an insider access piece in the pages of @newyorker.
newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
Here's a few things not in the piece. Meet Brent Harris. The man with the granola bar. You know what else Brent Harris did? He repeatedly pressured the funders of @FBoversight into withdrawing their support & killing the Real Facebook Oversight Board before birth.
Brent Harris's boss is Nick Clegg and Nick Clegg's boss is Mark Zuckerberg and as @klonick says here, decisions about the Oversight Board were being taken at the top.
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12 Feb
Guess which company just won a £2.4 million government contract for ‘Online Harms Data Transformation’? Go on. GUESS
Congratulations to all those who guessed Faculty AI. The firm that has refused to answer any & all questions about what it did with data in EUref, whose founder is friends with Dominic Cummings & whose brother (& ex-director) now sits in the Cabinet Office.
And yes before the trolls arrive, GMG Ventures which is part of @guardian has shares in this company. No I don’t know why. Suggest you ask them
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10 Feb
NEW: Arron Banks's LeaveEU & Eldon Insurance vs the Information Commissioner.

This is the appeal of a failed appeal against the ICO for finding LeaveEU & Eldon in breach of the law in Feb 19.

'The decision of the Upper Tribunal is to dismiss these appeals'
An excerpt from the judgement:

'Mr Banks' letter to the Information Commissioner admitting that he had been untruthful in the past was hardly likely to assuage all regulatory concerns especially as it was followed by his letter of bullying tone which we quote at paragraph 11'
Since all my tweets are apparently being taken down & will be used as potential evidence against me in the upcoming legal case Banks is bringing against me, I'd like to point out that I've tweeted this because it literally hasn't been reported anywhere else
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13 Jan
Omg. I LOVE this so much. It’s almost enough to make me believe the internet can be good again

polygon.com/2021/1/12/2222…
Calling all shanty friends! You will not regret...
@Joanne_OConnor1 @TheUnthanks @petershadbolt @johnmitchinson @IrelandsEdge @peterjukes @gavinsblog @PeterKGeoghegan @donie @LondonShanty

It all started with this guy...

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3 Jan
Where is parliament? Tomorrow is an absolutely critical day. There are still a few key things we can do to prevent 10000s of deaths. But we have to act now. Boris Johnson has proved himself utterly inadequate to the task. We need parliament. Where is it?
This is a national crisis. @Keir_Starmer @EdwardJDavey @Ianblackford_MP Where are you? You were too late in March. And you’re too late now. Where are the calls for parliament to be recalled? You know Boris Johnson is failing. But by your silence, you are too
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