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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook's alternative facts; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/15/thr…

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Facebook's alternative facts: If you don't like your transparency portal's data, shut it down.

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#20yrsago UK lobbyists want "respecting copyright" curriculum in schools web.archive.org/web/2001071813…

#20yrsago Gary Larson on online comics sharing web.archive.org/web/2001061008…

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15 Jul

Facebook acquired a company called Crowdtangle in 2016; it makes a social media analytics tool that the press has used to monitor subject-matter trends on Facebook, especially in the runup to the 2020 elections.

Facebook just gutted Crowtangle.

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Crowdtangle had operated as a semiautonomous unit within Facebook, primarily used by media companies to track the social media performance of their stories. A turning point came when the @nytimes's @kevinroose figured out how to rank posts that included links to the real web.

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14 Jul

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook employees stalk users; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/14/who…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1415367856347176964

Facebook employees stalk users: Moral hazard vs the ACCESS Act.

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#20yrsago Spam blacklist MAPS starts charging for access slashdot.org/story/01/07/13…

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#5yrsago North Carolina adopts the nation’s worst police bodycam law abc11.com/1422569/

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