#SocialMedia#Twitter#Censorship#FreedomOfSpeech: "Elon Musk is taking an increasingly combative approach against what he claims are government efforts to censor posts on his social media platform X, as the billionaire engages in public battles with political figures over the issue.
X has attacked “takedown” requests in Brazil, India and Australia in recent weeks, after authorities demanded the removal of content on the site they deem as illegal or harmful.
Its owner, a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has gone further, labelling Brazil’s supreme court judge Alexandre de Moraes a “dictator” and Australia’s eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant, a former Twitter employee, a “censorship commissar”.
In one of these disputes, an Australian legal hearing began on Friday to determine whether X must scrub footage of a violent attack in Sydney from the platform."
#Enshittification#SocialMedia#Algorithms: "Social media's enshittification followed a different path. In the beginning, social media presented a deterministic feed: after you told the platform who you wanted to follow, the platform simply gathered up the posts those users made and presented them to you, in reverse-chronological order.
This presented few opportunities for enshittification, but it wasn't perfect. For users who were well-established on a platform, a reverse-chrono feed was an ungovernable torrent, where high-frequency trivialities drowned out the important posts from people whose missives were buried ten screens down in the updates since your last login.
For new users who didn't yet follow many people, this presented the opposite problem: an empty feed, and the sense that you were all alone while everyone else was having a rollicking conversation down the hall, in a room you could never find.
The answer was the algorithmic feed: a feed of recommendations drawn from both the accounts you followed and strangers alike. Theoretically, this could solve both problems, by surfacing the most important materials from your friends while keeping you abreast of the most important and interesting activity beyond your filter bubble. For many of us, this promise was realized, and algorithmic feeds became a source of novelty and relevance.
But these feeds are a profoundly tempting enshittification target."
"#Jack recently deleted his account on #Bluesky, once pitched—by him—as #socialmedia’s decentralized solution to censorship, and left the company’s board. I reached out and asked him why, which is where our call began…what follows is a missing chapter of internet history that sheds light not only on Bluesky, but #Twitter, X, and the past 5 years of censorship & backlash. The future will be decentralized, or it won’t be free." https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana
Apple's controversial "Crush" ad received a negative reaction worldwide - and especially in Japan. We've rounded up some of the most pained reactions from artists and customers on social media.
Zukunftsforscher Tristan Horx und Soziologieprofessorin Katja Rost sehen im zunehmenden Trend der #Dumbphones ein klares Signal gegen die digitale Dauerbeschallung. Und eine Chance, 👉 soziale Medien kritisch zu hinterfragen.
Cybercrime in Social Media: Theory and Solutions by Pradeep Kumar Roy; Asis Kumar Tripathy, 2023
Features:
• Detailed discussion on social-
cyber issues, including hate speech, cyberbullying,
• Discusses usefulness of social platforms
• Includes framework to address the social issues with their
implementations
• Covers fake news and rumor detection models
• Describes analysis of social posts with advanced learning techniques
Butter boards — artfully styled wooden boards with softened, flavored butter — have become a TikTok trend in the last couple of years. But their inexorable rise might not have been entirely organic. Grist reports on how the dairy lobby is claiming credit for the trend because its marketing group worked with the influencer who posted the first video. The organization also has partnerships with McDonald's, Taco Bell, Domino's and General Mills. "Thirty years after the era-defining 'Got Milk?' campaign — itself a project of the California Milk Processor Board — the U.S. dairy lobby’s PR machine appears to be getting a second wind," writes H. Claire Brown.
A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ #Trump returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & #MichaelCohen his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trump’s #criminal trial.
#GeorgiaLongstreet, a paralegal at the Manhattan DA's office who reviews #SocialMedia posts as part of her role, is on the stand. #Longstreet testified about Trump’s social media posts once before during this trial.
#Trump has been hunched over the defense table reviewing & writing on papers in front of him. He only looked up at Longstreet when she started reading his tweets.