I've found an excellent podcast series about how online companies use your data. The second episode of the new season is all about how social media giants gather data to keep you engaged, enraged and staying in their apps looking at ads.
It's presented in a pleasantly approachable way. The fediverse is mentioned (Flipboard), along with a new platform I haven't heard of, Small Town and the idea of the Pluriverse.
One of the exercises they do in the episode is pull down their data from Instagram (thanks GDPR!). I did the same thing last year and documented my findings - a real eye opener, and one of the reasons I'm now committed to the fediverse.
Nazi-Propaganda, antisemitische Sprüche oder Morddrohungen gegen Politiker - die Zahl der Hasspostings im Internet ist stark gestiegen. Bei einem bundesweiten Aktionstag gegen Hetze durchsuchten Ermittler 70 Wohnungen.
Netanyahu & other Israeli officials are unscrupulous, they're using SM & other means to smear their 'enemies' & prop up their war effort.
In an attempt to sway global public opinion on the war in Gaza, fake accounts & sites spread pro-Israel & Islamophobic content.
Three months ago we exposed a secret Israeli influence campaign targeting US lawmakers over Gaza war. It was orchestrated by the Israeli gov't itself."
@br00t4c The Duggars. Harrison Butker's wife. Any of those "family experts" that appear on Fox News and Newsmax. Televangelist wives. Even the "Sister Wives". They're all examples of "trad wives".
In the Crenshaw District of South Central LA, Destination Crenshaw is transforming the neighborhood into an "open air museum" embedded within a “Digital Equity Zone”
It involves "pocket parks," murals, free community WiFi, and a proposed open-access fiber network
My story at link below on how DC is empowering neighborhood residents with strategic investments rather than displacing them through gentrification
Et voilà, encore obligé de faire le relou de service : encore des parents qui veulent organiser un anniversaire, inviter C. et qui font un p*tain de groupe whatsapp pour ça.
Et moi obligé d'expliquer que non, je n'utilise pas cette app et je n'en ai pas l'intention, j'ai déjà Delta Chat.
@matiu_bidule le pire c’est quand même quand les gens sont persuadés que tu ne l’a pas parce que tu ne sais pas t’en servir et te disent comment l’installer…
By sunsetting Section 230, the US Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it
The proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers from liability from users' actions
This legislation would deal a critical blow to the fundamentally American tradition of free speech and the internet as we know and love it
It was 13 years ago when I registered fourtonfish.com, which I've used as my internet home for the following 11 years, before switching to stefanbohacek.com.
How did you pick the domain name for your personal website?
Two new studies published in the journal of Science this week offer a deeper insight into the spread of misinformation on social media, offering evidence that it not only changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers” — predominately older Republican women — were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at.
The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. @TechCrunch has more.
On a populous colonised Mars in 2059, there are still video rental stores. K.S. Robinson's novel "Red Mars" appeared in 1993, two years before I got dial-up #internet access at home.
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