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6 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
'The OAG found that millions of fake comments were submitted through a secret campaign, funded by the country's largest broadband co's, to manufacture support for repeal of net neutrality rules... millions more were submitted by a 19yo college student using made-up identities...'
Another reason this is concerning- given the research I do on computational propaganda I am fairly certain this particular campaign is a harbinger of similar and much more automated attacks to come.
Impersonation as a Service is a reality... and we are going to see even worse attacks and campaigns in the future.
I wrote about this here: techpolicy.press/fake-net-neutr…

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1/ Senator @ChrisCoonsforDE refers to @_KarenHao @techreview reporting around how incentives work at Facebook with regard to growth metrics, asks platforms whether they provide such pay incentives. Bickert say they are "not simply" incentivized for engagement.
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Facebook concluded "designation differences" in its own policies stopped it from enforcement against Stop the Steal and Storm the Capitol groups.
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1/ This is very good and I wish I had written it. key bit: "Without any independent access to internal data, outsiders can’t know how much of a difference Facebook’s break-glass measures make, or where its dials usually sit. But Facebook has a reason for announcing these steps."
2/ Bickert's statement suggests not just a turning of knobs and dials but also a surge of human attention. This begs the question- why not, as Evelyn says, keep the dials tuned for disaster all the time- but also, why not scale up the human effort much more substantially?
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Why Political Sectarianism Is a Growing Threat to American Democracy: The country is increasingly split into camps that don’t just disagree on policy and politics — they see the other as alien, immoral, a threat, says @Nate_Cohn: nytimes.com/2021/04/19/us/…
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