We are in deep, deep unchartered waters but I think we may look back & see this as Facebook's Week Zero.
This week's presentation & rebranding needs to be seen for what it is: a scorched earth policy.
The past does not exist. There is only future
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This week's presentation & rebranding needs to be seen for what it is: a scorched earth policy.
The past does not exist. There is only future
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https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1453805979443810315
What Facebook has done this week is to defy reality. To defeat it.
The present does not exist. The multiple front page stories from multiple news orgs based on 20k internal docs never happened.
It doesn’t care. Because its plan is to colonise, own & control the future
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The present does not exist. The multiple front page stories from multiple news orgs based on 20k internal docs never happened.
It doesn’t care. Because its plan is to colonise, own & control the future
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Facebook’s ambition is imperial.
And we are at the point in the movie where they need a new planet to colonise. It’s not ‘the metaverse’. It’s our AI future.
And this is who is building it. A handful of white tech bros & their dutiful lackeys
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And we are at the point in the movie where they need a new planet to colonise. It’s not ‘the metaverse’. It’s our AI future.
And this is who is building it. A handful of white tech bros & their dutiful lackeys
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This is an extractive industry. And it is us who are being extracted. This future is being built on our digital cells & bones. Yet we have no say in it.
It is not our future. It is theirs.
This world we will all shortly be living in is the Future According to Facebook
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It is not our future. It is theirs.
This world we will all shortly be living in is the Future According to Facebook
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https://twitter.com/juliapowles/status/1454822248808783880
This week @FrancesHaugen gave devastating evidence to UK parliament.
And here’s what Facebook did: Zuck gave cosy interviews to his favourite white male American tech journalists. (h/t @karaswisher)
Facebook has given up apologising. This is Blitzkrieg. Total warfare.
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And here’s what Facebook did: Zuck gave cosy interviews to his favourite white male American tech journalists. (h/t @karaswisher)
Facebook has given up apologising. This is Blitzkrieg. Total warfare.
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Our AI future is coming so much faster than we think. Regulation - too late, too slow, too analogue - can’t save us at this point.
It’s too fast. Too pervasive.
Here’s just one eg: It’s no longer possible to hold free & fair elections. But we can’t even acknowledge this.
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It’s too fast. Too pervasive.
Here’s just one eg: It’s no longer possible to hold free & fair elections. But we can’t even acknowledge this.
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Reporting on Facebook has radically shifted in last 5 years. And again since Jan 6.
But it needs to change again. Facebook isn’t an authoritarian state. It’s worse that an authoritarian state. Its plan for our future is totalitarian.
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But it needs to change again. Facebook isn’t an authoritarian state. It’s worse that an authoritarian state. Its plan for our future is totalitarian.
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Too much for a Sunday night thread. But with thanks to those who’ve taught us how we need to treat authoritarians @mariaressa @navalny @Tsihanouskaya.
And why we need a different type of journalism @jayrosen_nyu @Sulliview @chrislhayes @mehdirhasan et al 🙏
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And why we need a different type of journalism @jayrosen_nyu @Sulliview @chrislhayes @mehdirhasan et al 🙏
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https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1420397741516132352
Gah! Typo! Uncharted territory not unchartered, dammit. Grrr
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