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29 Oct, 11 tweets, 3 min read
"Reasonable people" would acknowledge your position is a scarecrow. Hardly anyone believes social media is the prime cause for society's issues. What "reasonable people" object to is your company knowingly making things worse and making billions while at it.
The worst part of this is that Facebook's own researchers are "Reasonable people." "Reasonable people" produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
"Reasonable people" produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse. apnews.com/article/the-fa…
"Reasonable people" produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse.
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"Reasonable people" produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse.
cnn.com/2021/10/25/tec…
"Reasonable people" produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse.
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"Reasonable people" produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse.
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
"Reasonable people" produced this insight into how your platform makes things worse.
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"Reasonable people" pleaded with you not to make things worse.
ft.com/content/67ad6e…
"Reasonable people" are aghast. politico.com/news/2021/10/2…
I'm fed up with Nick Clegg's "be reasonable, this is more complicated than Facebook" shtick. He'll sleep in high threadcount sheets tonight while millions of people he exploited to earn them will go without justice. "Reasonable people" should agree- it's intolerable.

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30 Oct
As Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, John Eastman, an attorney for Donald Trump, emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence had caused the violence by refusing to block certification of Trump’s election loss.
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
WaPo:

“The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened,” Eastman wrote to Jacob, referring to Trump’s claims of voter fraud.
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This is incredible: Eastman- Trump’s lawyer- was still pushing Pence not to certify the electoral college vote AFTER the insurrection:
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28 Oct
For @techpolicypress, @jbakcoleman has a rallying call for academics who study social media:

It's time to build new connections across the social sciences and prepare to dig into the Facebook Papers in depth using qual and quant methods:
techpolicy.press/journalists-ar…
@techpolicypress @jbakcoleman .@jbakcoleman also says Facebook should also take this opportunity to rethink its relationship with academic researchers for the post-whistleblower period. Only maximum transparency will work going forward: techpolicy.press/journalists-ar…
"Understanding how social media impacts society is about as difficult as it is important. We somehow have to make sense of what happens when billions of remarkably complex brains are networked via smartphone to giant server farms leveraging PBs of data..." techpolicy.press/journalists-ar…
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26 Oct
"Hey everyone and thanks for joining today. We made good progress this quarter across a number of product priorities, and our community continues to grow. There are now almost 3.6 billion people who actively use one or more of our services..." politico.com/news/2021/10/2…
"...and I'm excited about our roadmap to keep building great new experiences for them. As expected, we did experience revenue headwinds this quarter, including from Apple's changes that are not only negatively affecting our business..." apnews.com/article/the-fa…
"...but millions of small businesses in what is already a difficult time for them in the economy. Sheryl and Dave will talk about this more later, but the bottom line is we expect we'll be able to navigate these headwinds over time..." cnn.com/2021/10/25/tec…
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25 Oct
1/ Seeing some tweets calling on specific Reps. to be "expelled" or "arrested" for their role in January 6.

A couple of thoughts.

First- it is right to say that any Rep. who played any role in planning violence should be expelled. I am unaware of hard evidence so far.
2/ Second- it may be right to call for anyone that planned to send protestors to the Capitol, with knowledge of the potential for violence, to be expelled. There is some evidence this happened.
3/ Third- calling on anyone to be expelled for participating in the objection is a non-starter. And frankly, counterproductive. Despite the fact that the objection was based on a lie, there was nothing illegal about it.
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25 Oct
1/ @hunterw's report on members of Congress, White House staff and others that coordinated the events of Jan 6 is worth reading.

The story is sourced two anonymous sources who spoke "extensively" to Walker, a rally "organizer" and "planner".
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
@hunterw 2/ These Representatives are named in particular- including many that had been at the White House planning meeting Dec 22 (first reported by Politico) and who Ali Alexander had claimed were involved in the planning.
@hunterw 3/ The sources name Katrina Pierson as the key go between for the protest organizers and the White House.
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24 Oct
In this week's @techpolicypress podcast, a discussion on Amazon Ring, surveillance, and what it means to be a "neighbor" with:

• @hypervisible
• @EvanSelinger

Listen!
techpolicy.press/the-sunday-sho…
Background reading 1: @EvanSelinger and co-author Darin Durrant in the Journal Science as Culture, Amazon's Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope Service tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
@EvanSelinger Background reading 2: @hypervisible in @UrbanOmnibus on networked surveillance urbanomnibus.net/2020/01/caught…
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