While the Commerce Committee is in recess, some reading for you. A few pieces I've written tracking these issues over the past four years. Some details in enforcement have change, but by and large, the conclusions still hold up, and that is frustrating. (1/)
On self-regulation and why it didn't work, for @PostOpinions:
@CindyOtis_@WIRED A reminder that quitting Facebook and its subsidiaries is a privilege many can't afford, and that the platform's decisions and mistakes have ripple effects far outside of your backyard. medium.com/@nina.jankowic…
🧵 The Facebook Oversight Board will announce its decision on whether to uphold the platform’s post-January 6 ban on President Trump tomorrow.
It will have momentous consequences for political speech around the world. But for countering disinfo, it’s somewhat of a distraction.
A few years ago the main thoroughfare near my neighborhood got realigned, and the county put in some nice landscaping, which quickly got neglected and overgrown with weeds.
A little sapling started growing and by the fall, had grown into quite a plucky, woody weed tree, thriving amidst a bed of poison ivy that Jake, to my dismay, relishes walking through on our morning strolls.
Gendered abuse and disinformation are terrifyingly widespread. Of our 13 subjects, 12 faced gendered abuse, and 9 faced gendered disinfo. The overwhelming majority of abuse was posted on Twitter, and targeted @KamalaHarris (78% of our data!).
Here are the most prevalent keywords supporting gendered disinformation targeting the subjects in our study, including @KamalaHarris, @IlhanMN, @GovWhitmer, and @AOC. Women were targeted with abuse across party lines.
Good morning! Lots of men among my followers were giving me suggestions about how to deal with online misogynists in responses to this thread yesterday.
Here are a few reasons why it's not particularly helpful or constructive.
1. If you're a man telling a woman how to deal with online misogyny: nope. Just stop. You may as well be giving me tampon advice. Intellectually, you may think you understand what online (or real life) harassment is, but you can't understand the effect it has on the target.
2. It's highly personal; everyone deals with this differently. Not every target will choose to react the same way. Responses can range from righteous indignation to disengagement to direct response to trolls, and that's the target's choice, not yours.
Andrew is reporting from the unsanctioned protest in Moscow in support of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, arrested last week upon his return to Russia after the FSB tried to poison him.
Events like this happening all around Russia today, and police are beginning to crack down.
A friend in St. Petersburg writes, "I haven't seen such a huge group of people since 1991. A lot of people have come out [to protest] for the first time."
"A Russian politician can only be a Russian politician in Russia," says Vladimir Kara-Murza of Navalny's decision to return to Russia after recovering from the Kremlin's attempt to poison him.
@tvrain now streaming the arrest of a young female Navalny supporter at Vnukova Airport. Police dragging her away by her limbs, reporting that arrests are happening "periodically" every few minutes as Navalny supporters chant "Russia will be free"