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14 Nov, 6 tweets, 6 min read
This week's @techpolicypress podcast is a double-header:

• @IfeomaOzoma talks about the Tech Worker Handbook and her push for more activism

• @anildash and @elipariser consider the Filter Bubble Transparency Act

Listen/subscribe!
techpolicy.press/the-sunday-sho…
@techpolicypress @IfeomaOzoma @anildash @elipariser Background reading 1: here's the transcript to my discussion with @IfeomaOzoma with links to the handbook and more: techpolicy.press/how-to-build-a…
@techpolicypress @IfeomaOzoma @anildash @elipariser Background reading 2: Here are the basics on the Filter Bubble Transparency Act, introduced in the House this week by @RepKenBuck, @RepLoriTrahan, @RepBurgessOwens and @RepCicilline this week and previously by @SenJohnThune in the Senate: techpolicy.press/document-filte…
(ASIDE: I make a shoutout to @WillOremus in the podcast for this piece, which puts the Filter Bubble Transparency Act in context with reporting on experiments inside Facebook to alter the news feed ranking algorithm): washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
@WillOremus You can always listen to the podcast in your browser: player.captivate.fm/episode/f376e4…
@WillOremus Or subscribe via your favorite podcast service: techpolicypress.captivate.fm/listen

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1 Nov
1/ Good morning. Yesterday the Washington Post published a very important report on January 6- before, during, and after. I reckon it's one of the most important accounts published anywhere to date. It is full of new reporting and detail. washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
2/ The article opens with the incredible account of Donell Harvin, a homeland security official who convened the nation's fusion centers which- for the first time since 9/11- were blinking red "coast to coast". He even told DC to prepare for mass casualties ~48 hours in advance.
3/ Based on interviews with more than 230 people and thousands of documents and multimedia assets, the report finds the "red flags were everywhere" and were compounding even weeks before the attack.
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31 Oct
The Washington Post has a new, comprehensive timeline with new details on the before, during and after of January 6.
washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
These details suggest multiple social media firms had sent posts warning of Jan 6 violence (publicly only Parler is known so far to have sent warnings direct to the FBI.)
This is consistent with what Wray and others have said but the details on Dataminr are new.
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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.
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
This is incredible: Eastman- Trump’s lawyer- was still pushing Pence not to certify the electoral college vote AFTER the insurrection: Image
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29 Oct
"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…
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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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