Meta blocks Barcelona theatre ads for Virginia Woolf play over 'social topics' filter
All these platforms were originally sold to us as being liberating tools of free speech and expression. Now they're being actively used by their owners to suppress it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Mostly piratey21If you are ‘classifying words’, filtering content and advising changes then that makes you a publisher, no?
esmeraldastrongarm.bsky.social13So they could filter out Nazi stuff but they don’t
Sir Andy KBE7I made the mistake of reading a post by Rupert Lowe last week. Within half a day my feed was full of Reform bots and fake "patriots" some of which were clearly duplicates. Took me a whole afternoon of blocking to get my feed same again.
Irritated Llama5An afternoon on Facebook and your feed ends up like a copy of Der Stürmer. Far Right posts with tens of thousands of reactions and shares, organising marches and demonstrations. But those AREN'T activism?
Tinah The Queenah 🇵🇸5Almost like Elon selling himself as the green-energy, save-the-planet guy while Tesla benefited from a $465 million taxpayer-funded government loan - then, once the money was made and he was obscenely wealthy, completely changing direction. And now he want to cook the planet powering his AI empire.
Chris Smith4Oligarchs buy media and other platforms to suppress the voices of the left of centre. That should be obvious.
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧10They can arrange pogroms on Facebook though
Paul Bernal8They were always being used that way, and many of us called them out for it. It’s all over Chapter 5 of my 2018 book.
Irritated Llama5An afternoon on Facebook, and your feed ends up like a copy of Der Stürmer. Far Right posts with tens of thousands of reactions and shares, organising marches and demonstrations. Auditor content playing the algorithm. But those AREN'T activism?
Toria Banks4Artists and arts organisations must take this seriously and not just blithely continue to worry about being ‘good on socials’
