Teen blocked from business after facial recognition system falsely flags her
Automated facial recognition has a high false positive rate and amounts to automated racism.
Nigeria blocks all access to Twitter
Twitter argues that access to, apparently, Twitter is a “human right”. Yet Twitter itself frequently cuts others off of Twitter for bizarre reasons. This tweet by Twitter does not seem to have been well thought out.
Old social media posts cost another job
Google’s head of diversity has been re-assigned after old blog posts showed him denigrating Jews and possibly making inappropriate comments about the LGBTQ+ community. Old blog posts and tweets have resulted in many losing their jobs.
Facebook censors now say its okay to mention possible lab created Covid-19
Facebook and Twitter are idea and knowledge suppression services. You are permitted to discuss only what billionaires allow you to discuss.
Manufacturing the news
White House asserts it has a veto privilege over quotes used by news reporters. Hmmmm.
Facebook’s ban on Trump
Should billionaires control our public speech? Should billionaires be the ones to determine truth? Should billionaires have more power than elected government leaders?
Proof of social media as propaganda platform: “Just 12 people are responsible for ‘73% of Facebook’s anti-vaxx content'”
The sole purpose of social media is to serve as a frictionless platform for the spread of propaganda, in order to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Facebook insisted its censorship policies were applied equally
Facebook CEO did, in fact, intercede in FB’s teams decisions regarding acceptable speech on Facebook. Now we get government censorship via proxy – and let billionaires decide what we are allowed to read, see or hear.
Poorly done propaganda using WYSIATI cherry picking: Al Jazeera gets an F on this one
Al Jazeera runs a column by a professor of philosophy who says capitalism is a failure and that only government can deliver the “innovation” necessary to deliver vaccines for Covid-19. Al Jazeera fails to note his background as an avid socialist member of groups opposed to the “neoliberal capitalist model”. Failing to disclose this background context turns this into a propaganda piece versus not legitimate analysis of issues.
How long before a country declares war on Facebook: “Facebook takes down main page of Myanmar military”
The large social media companies have demonstrated they have more power than government, government leaders and government agencies. At what point does this get treated by a government as a declaration of war, and get a corresponding response?