Oh my, I love how this perspective is anchored on trust dynamics. A few quick thoughts from me then a link to go read it. /1

Deal!

#AIAct

Excellent report by Ioan Grillo on how #narcos are recruiting #Americans on #instagram to be #fentanyl mules. The ease with which bad actors can create new accounts if one is taken down furthers our argument for urgent regulation of these platforms.

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Its almost xmas

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Woah. Watched this panel - to discuss state AGs child harm lawsuits filed vs Facebook - hosted by/with three big tech / Facebook-funded orgs (ITIF, Chamber of Progress, NetChoice). They invited a Gen-Z activist who absolutely owned them (watch in full). My eight highlights. /1

Jason Kint Some of us were screaming this for years. First, journalists didn’t care because tech wasn’t politics celebs or culture(!). Then, late to the party, tech idols could do nothing wrong.

Fascinating read.
“It was that Facebook knew.”
This to me is the operative statement of the company’s entire history. It fit the inflated reach, deceptive video metrics, platform data leakage, even the useless “certification” from Cambridge Analytica. They knew.

Let this sink in:

Over 3/4 of the states are suing one company for harming kids.

It's not a tobacco company.

It's not a food company.

It's not a car company.

It's Meta. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

In an unprecedented legal challenge, 41 states and the District of Columbia are suing Meta, alleging that the tech giant harms children by building addictive features into Instagram and Facebook. Cristiano Lima-Strong Naomi Nix
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

STATEMENT: Meta sued by over three-quarters of the United States for “profoundly” altering “the psychological and social realities” of young Americans.
rfob.medium.com/meta-sued-by-o…

woah. just downloaded last week's appellate opinion reviving sensitive Facebook lawsuit. 5yrs, nearly $6B later, we’re still getting new facts placing FB's entire cover-up and related press reports in a new light (no wonder they just added separate $700m settlement last week). /1

'Meta and Instagram cannot be trusted to keep our nation's kids safe,' added Zamaan Qureshi, policy adviser for the Real Facebook Oversight Board. 'And 41 states say so. This is huge.'
commondreams.org/news/states-su…

#namibia #rugbyworldcup #Marseille #france #rugbyworldcup 2023

€345,000,000 fine for TikTok. Violation of data protection rules. The details are SHOCKING. #GDPR edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2…

In response, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez called the tests 'unacceptable,' Reuters reported. 'When a big tech company... tells us, 'If you don't do this or that, then I'm pulling the plug', that's a threat. I've never done anything because I was afraid of a threat'

ICYMI: It leaked yesterday that Facebook would block news for 5% of Canadians on Facebook and Instagram. It's an intimidation tactic designed to stop lawmakers from passing a journalism protection bill.

Let's get the story right. Good work Toronto Star
thestar.com/politics/feder…

I spoke to Fox News about the power of the 'Facebook Receipts', our new project that pulls back the curtain on Facebook's influence machine.

Facebook claims to want regulation but won't actually work with Republicans or Democrats.
Thanks, Brian Flood!
foxnews.com/media/facebook…

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