The CCDH studied the growth rates of 10 influential accounts that pay for X Premium and have posted anti-Jewish and/or anti-Muslim hate speech since October 7, 2023, when Hamas’ attack on Israel sparked the Israel-Gaza conflict. Some of these accounts had previously posted conspiracy theory content related to COVID-19, per the...
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Finally everyone sees the hyperloop as a massive Elmo grift.
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
Article by TechCrunch reporting on the decision by the LGBT+ support ort Trevor Project to abandon exTwitter due to the increasing hate and homo-/transphobia stoked by platform owner Elon Musk
"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "
What do you think?
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other
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Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 company employees.
Reddit may have won by shutting down the protest against its API changes, but not without lasting damage to its relationship with its users.
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