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21 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: 11th annual @freedomonthenet report finds authoritarianism on the rise, and digital freedoms on the decline- 72% of the world's online population live in countries where people were attacked or killed for their online activities in the past year:
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Where the U.S. loses net points on the Freedom House scoring system, it is due to erosion of the information environment due to the saturation of “disinformation,” particularly involving elections and the COVID-19 pandemic: it is the 5th year of decline:
techpolicy.press/revenge-of-the…
“Conditions for internet users in China remained profoundly oppressive, and confirmed the country’s status as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the seventh consecutive year,” says Freedom House.
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What has emerged over time is a set of “best practices” which help ensure freedom, and “worst practices” that indicate its absence. Image
Kudos to @alfunk and @adrianshahbaz for this incredible report and resource.
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21 Sep
Thread of reactions re: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on privacy + competition- @SenMikeLee raises WSJ revelations from @JeffHorwitz et al abt Facebook in opening privacy hearing with @SenAmyKlobuchar. First up is Steve Satterfield, Facebook VP of Privacy & Public Policy. Image
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19 Sep
Today's podcast:

• WSJ reporter @keachhagey, coauthor of Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead, w/ @JeffHorwitz

• @AuthorPMBarrett & Grant Sims from @NYUSternBHR on a new report on social media & polarization:

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@keachhagey @JeffHorwitz @AuthorPMBarrett @NYUSternBHR Background reading, 1: @keachhagey & @JeffHorwitz, part of the series of exclusives, The Facebook Files: wsj.com/articles/faceb…
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17 Sep
WSJ Facebook Files Part V: "Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO’s ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site and using Facebook’s own tools to sow doubt about the Covid-19 vaccine" @samschech @JeffHorwitz @EmilyGlazer
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@samschech @JeffHorwitz @EmilyGlazer "In the weeks before Mr. Zuckerberg made his announcement, another memo said initial testing concluded that roughly 41% of comments on English-language vaccine-related posts risked discouraging vaccinations." wsj.com/articles/faceb…
This confirms the contention of so many, such as @CCDHate's @Imi_Ahmed, who Facebook trashed for suggesting key influencers were warping the vaccine debate on the platform. Image
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17 Sep
NEW: I spoke to @RepLoriTrahan (D-MA3) about the WSJ report on Instagram's internal research on the relationship between use of its app and teen mental health. She has an urgent set of questions and concerns for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to address: techpolicy.press/rep-lori-traha…
On the WSJ report by @dseetharaman, @JeffHorwitz & @georgia_wells, @RepLoriTrahan says she was not surprised, given the company's past behavior, but that she wants to know how Mark Zuckerberg could avert his eyes "to these damning statistics": techpolicy.press/rep-lori-traha…
.@RepLoriTrahan compares Facebook to Big Tobacco:

"They have the research, they know the problems on their platforms and they have the ability to fix them and they’re simply choosing not to. And so my question for him is: why?" techpolicy.press/rep-lori-traha…
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16 Sep
New in the WSJ series based on leaked internal documents:

Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show.

By @ScheckWSJ, @JeffHorwitz, @newley: wsj.com/articles/faceb…
Sex trafficking, drugs, organ selling, thwarting political dissent.... Image
And once again, an insufficient response from Facebook executives: Image
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15 Sep
This week @AuthorPMBarrett, Grant Sims and I published a report on the relationship between social media, political polarization and its consequences. This report by @JeffHorwitz & @keachhagey does more than confirm our conclusions- it shows it is a crisis.wsj.com/articles/faceb…
You can get the summary or link to the full report from @NYUSternBHR here: techpolicy.press/how-social-med…
Our report also handles this particular objection to the role of Facebook in exacerbating division, which is the company line:
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