The point is that so many academics, experts, civil rights groups were warning of exactly this.
The insurrection wasn’t some sort of black swan event impossible to predict. Facebook’s failure to take essential measures to protect against violence was pointed out *repeatedly*
It was why @FBoversight was launched. To warn the public that Facebook’s failure to act was to use @tribelaw’s words to watch ‘a coup d’etat in progress’
My phone threw up this memory yesterday. The last time a whistleblower spoke so directly, Facebook melted down.
It precipitated their biggest corporate crisis to date.
And yet. Not a single executive was held to account.
In fact, that house of cards may be about to fall. The whitewashing job that enabled Facebook to emerge from the Cambridge Analytica wreckage may yet be exposed.
And this new whistleblower brings Facebook again into the spotlight…
Pay attention to how @nickclegg is trying to deflect & divert.
I especially love how he emphasises Facebook removed ‘the original #StopTheSteal group’ conveniently glossing over all the other #StopTheStealgroups Facebook did nothing about. Including the one Steve Bannon was in
And here it is: the Nick Clegg defence in full. This is why they pay him the big bucks.
Social media doesn’t kill people. People kill people.
It’s a direct lift from the NRA school of media management. And if that all Facebook has left, it should be very very worried indeed
A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/
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Palantir recruited the two most senior AI strategists from the Ministry of Defence & NHS…& won multimillion £ contracts with both, a pattern repeated across the UK govt. 2/
NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why?
Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/
The capture of US media orgs is accelerating. And the UK is next in line. The BBC has fallen to an AI hype guy. And my old newspaper, the Observer, is publishing Palantir puff pieces.
Distracted by the slaughter of children in Iran & Lebanon? Me too! But what better time could there be for govt to quietly relaunch its Digital ID plan?
Missed it? Me too! But look who’s celebrating…
The director of ‘govt innovation’ at the Tony Blair Institute! 1/
The govt noisily scrapped Digital ID after huge pushback when nobody bought its ‘it’ll solve immigration’ bollocks. But as markets tanked last week - kudos to the comms team! - it was discreetly re-launched with all-new messaging: a ‘common sense solution to everyday probs’
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Darren Jones, Cabinet Office secretary, put out a press release claiming the govt will be holding a ‘consultation’.
NOT: ‘Do you want the govt & unknown tech companies to have all your data?’
BUT: (I kid you not): ‘At what age should you be able to get a digital id?’ 🤔 3/