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MEGA GOODBYE THREAD:
2021 was a weird year for Sleeping Giants.
2022 will be different.
Starting with the fact that someone else will be ultimately be running it.
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Unregulated technology allows many, many ways for law enforcement *or* vigilantes to identify and hunt down women suspected of being pregnant.
My new essay explains why avoiding this as an individual—by deleting apps or being careful—will not be feasible.
nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opini…
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It’s incredible what a valuable tool @twitter was in growing the neo-Nazi/white supremacy/alt-right movement.
Just watching these jackholes fiending to get back on years later is proof that deplatforming works and that they’re unable to match Twitter’s reach years later.
Neo-Nazi livestreamer and J6 defendant Anthime Gionet (aka "Baked Alaska" aka "YOBA") is trying to evade his Twitter ban. He advertised the new account this evening on a different social media platform.
Username: @/pawg_collector
ID: 1528158974243127297
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It’s also damning evidence that @twitter did absolutely nothing to stop the growth of this movement prior to about 2017.
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Tell me again, how Elon Musk is for free speech, as he meets with an authoritarian leader known for crushing dissent and suppressing free speech.
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This is a conspiracy theory that Bill Gates is behind monkeypox.
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We need a more sustainable way to do content moderation than to have excellent reporters do the hard work, then only have the platforms react when they’re called for comment.
NEW: I wrote about dangerous homemade baby formula recipes going viral online. They were on all the major tech platforms—Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter.
TikTok and YouTube began to remove the videos after we got in touch. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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NEW: I wrote about dangerous homemade baby formula recipes going viral online. They were on all the major tech platforms—Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter.
TikTok and YouTube began to remove the videos after we got in touch. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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On @HeerJeet's first podcast episode back here at The Nation, @EoinHiggins_ joins him to discuss the ways Glenn Greenwald has been echoing Tucker Carlson, pro bono:
bit.ly/3G1b5KL
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I went on the record in two documentaries, and I was recently interviewed by the NYT about Amber Heard, and I said it was a coordinated disinformation campaign against her. And here it is...
vice.com/en/article/3ab3yk/d…
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Amazing, but not surprising, to see dudes with "libertarian" in their bio excitedly cheering on the idea that Elon might use the state to punish his critics.
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Prominent Tech Leaders and VCs Have Nothing to Say on Buffalo and “Great Replacement Theory”- @Mlsif link.medium.com/y7GOxRK2bqb
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Reporting from Vice shows that at least some of the misogynist disinformation campaign surrounding the Depp v. Heard trial has been funded by the right-wing Daily Wire. vice.com/en/article/3ab3yk/d…
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When you’re definitely not concerned about shareholder lawsuits or the SEC.
Tesla is building a hardcore litigation department where we directly initiate & execute lawsuits. The team will report directly to me.
Please send 3 to 5 bullet points describing evidence of exceptional ability.
justice@tesla.com
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Disinformation exists, and it exists mostly to shift the blame of infrastructural decay and resource limitations from the powerful to the powerless.
You can call it "information warfare" or "information operations" if you want, but it is real.
People are dead because of it.
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Actually, maybe Twitter IS real life.
Tesla's board is between a rock and a hard place. The bleeding will likely continue if they keep Elon Musk on as CEO. However, if they remove him, it will spark a backlash with some of his vocal supporters. His erratic tweeting isn't helping the situation.
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