"Just a wee plea to my lefty friends not to get stuck into this idea that if you just show people enough data they will change their minds. Because this government is actively saying, 'we will erase the data'. Because it doesn't matter. It's not real to us it's not what we believe."
"Since end-to-end encrypting communications on the platform as a measure to protect user privacy, Meta no longer has access to the content of messages so cannot monitor what is spreading. But the company now says it has technology to spot accounts engaging in abnormal behaviour, with 8m accounts banned a month – 75% of which are banned before those accounts are reported by users."
> still continue to disseminate terrible pieces of information, untruths, rumours
"[Politicians making blatantly untrue claims] is where media's role should be, to [say] 'no, that's just a lie', and just squash it. But they don't. They just repeat it. They amplify it."
"The mask I wear leaves lines cut into my face after I take it off; 12 hours after stepping outside, getting onto a bus, working an 8-hour shift at a daycare, getting some groceries, going home to the one 3 by 4m bedroom where I know I can safely breathe. I take some pride in these lines; they are physical marks of how I’m tough as shit, that I have faced the risks and care about protecting myself and people around me"
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Brutally powerful piece @ #1of200