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Nov 18 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
As the Muskberg continues to gouge the hull of the #Twitanic: theguardian.com/technology/202…

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How can you buy something for 44 billion clams and then wreck it so quickly?

That has to be some kind of unique skill, no?
Not good... downdetector.com/status/twitter/
Wow...
We wrote a few days ago about how Musk's chaos had serious, negative implications for human rights...

Things keep going from bad to worse...
hrw.org/news/2022/11/1…
Outages going up again as US comes online... downdetector.com/status/twitter/

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Nov 16
👉 You’re a good person.

👉 You want to do the right thing.

👉 This applies to your shopping habits, too.

❓ But how can you know the things you buy are not linked to human rights abuses and environmental harm?

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Nov 10
The world needs a treaty on #KillerRobots - autonomous weapons systems that could, by themselves, target & attack human beings.

Unfortunately, current talks have been going nowhere.

Going nowhere since 2014, in fact.

Meanwhile, arms developers have been working away…
Since 2014, discussions within the Convention on Conventional Weapons have proved useless, mainly because it relies on a consensus approach to decision-making, which means a single country can reject any proposal, even if everyone else agrees.
To achieve a new treaty to #StopKillerRobots, governments need to take a new tack.

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Nov 10
Who could have predicted this would happen?

(apart from every expert who said it would happen)
… amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/09…
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Nov 9
Twitter confirms they will NOT verify users' identities for the new blue check.

An invitation to scammers & impersonation.

And they've said the new blue checks will have priority in the algorithm. (pay or disappear)

⚠️ The amplification of awful.

reuters.com/technology/twi…
Huge danger in disconnecting the blue check from verification.

⚠️ In some places, impersonation of human rights defenders can lead to death or worse.
Years ago, we pushed Twitter to see rights defenders on the same level - ie worthy of verification - as govt officials, politicians, journalists, etc, because the consequences of impersonation were so serious.
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Nov 9
Twitter's new "official" badge has appeared on some profiles and then disappeared again. For example, @GretaThunberg - first screenshot taken at 10:56 am ET, second at 11:25 am ET.

Wonder what's going on...
Also @nytimes - had it, then lost it...
Also @antonioguterres - had it, then lost it...
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Nov 9
Twitter seems to be worried about governments talking about leaving the platform, so they'll introduce a new "official" label.

Also...

CRITICAL: Twitter has confirmed they will NOT actually verify users' identities for the new blue check.

Very grim.
reut.rs/3UkJqLa
There are a number of serious problems with where Twitter's headed - a pay-or-disappear algorithm, for example, will lock out many voices, and drive misinformation to the fore.
But what concerns me most personally perhaps is the danger of disconnecting the blue check from verification.

⚠️ In some places, impersonation of human rights defenders can lead to death or worse.
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