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Robert G. Reeve

@RobertGReeve

24 Aug

@Cornell

I am losing my mind over a @Cornell chemistry professor and former department chair with 69k followers advocating for a livestock de-worming drug as a Covid-19 treatment. The FDA released a statement saying don’t take this

A thread full of anti-science quotes of his 🧵

Do not take ivermectin. It is not an antiviral. Animal ivermectin is not the same as human ivermectin. fda.gov/consumers/cons…

Pharmacies have restricted sales of ivermectin because they don’t want to be held legally liable for off-label use of a medicine.

David’s out here retweeting Steve Bannon’s conspiracy that restricting treatments is a way for Big Pharma to sell more vaccines.

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Robert G. Reeve

@RobertGReeve

23 Aug

@Cornell

PSA: People who are smart at one thing mistakenly believe that they’re smart at everything.

Dave’s bio says “Prof of Organic Chemistry @Cornell. Libertarian.” His feed’s full of anti-vax rhetoric but it’s clear he doesn’t understand social media or propaganda. A thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/1428055669077389316

@EM_RESUS

Dave’s sharing without verifying. @EM_RESUS's post is real, but when I searched for the copycats… I only saw people talking about this screenshot. Two possible explanations:

1) Twitter’s doing good moderating and taking them down
2) this screenshot is fake

Either way, Dave’s implication of conspiracy is disproven. So why might bots copy this?

Sam’s post is credible, concise, timely, emotional. Importantly, “I just left the ER” suggests credibility without vettable credentials. Is the speaker a nurse? Doctor? Patient?

Easy likes.

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Robert G. Reeve

@RobertGReeve

20 Aug

@levarburton

Wow, you know who would never do this and would also STILL make the best Jeopardy host? @levarburton.

NYT left out that Richards is the executive producer of the show—he named himself as host.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1428723989606764546

https://twitter.com/clairemcnear/status/1428720429615681551

In his note Richards doesn’t mention any specifics of his scandal and makes no apologies.

“I know I have a lot of work to do to regain your trust and confidence” is the language of a guy who has no intention of stepping down as producer.

https://twitter.com/clairemcnear/status/1428720429615681551

Mike Richards has only been the executive producer since 2020. It’s not like he’s been earning this his whole career. jeopardy.com/about/cast/mik…

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Robert G. Reeve

@RobertGReeve

28 Jun

@Sensodyne_US

Sequel time! So you want to clean up your privacy online. Here's how.

Each choice is a tradeoff between privacy and convenience, and the tarnish of capitalism is everywhere. (Speaking of, still waiting on my @Sensodyne_US sponsorship.)

P.S. this is my mom. She's a nurse. 💖🧵

I am a “content designer” (a gag-me industry term that just means writer). I read voraciously on others’ data privacy reporting and I write to make things easy to understand. So I won’t be getting too technical.

First, backstory: cookies. When your device talks to any website, it downloads a tiny file, like the saved file in a video game so it can remember where you left off. Some are useful—”remember I’m logged in”—others just track you for ads.

There’s a tech arms race over cookies.

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Robert G. Reeve

@RobertGReeve

22 Jun

@ohadelaide

I got doxxed last week, and it wasn’t over my privacy tweets. Someone posted my address on Twitter to harass my girlfriend @ohadelaide, who is defending herself against a libel suit for speaking up during #MeToo. Let’s talk the politics of why I’m a target now too. 🧵

In 2019, Adelaide tweeted about her sexual assault, naming her assaulter, amidst a gaming #MeToo moment. It became a new story covered in several outlets, which you can find easily.

Adelaide is American. Her assaulter is a UK citizen. The statute of limitations on libel in the UK is one year. One year to the day after Adelaide’s tweets, he filed a libel suit against her in a UK court.

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Robert G. Reeve

@RobertGReeve

25 May

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

First of all, your social media apps are not listening to you. This is a conspiracy theory. It's been debunked over and over again.

But frankly they don't need to because everything else you give them unthinkingly is way cheaper and way more powerful.

Your apps collect a ton of data from your phone. Your unique device ID. Your location. Your demographics. Weknowdis.

Data aggregators pay to pull in data from EVERYWHERE. When I use my discount card at the grocery store? Every purchase? That's a dataset for sale.