David Carroll · @profcarroll
14217 followers · 1491 posts · Server federate.social

5 Years On: My interview on with @justinhendrix deeply examining the legacy of the most significant scandal to date and what the future portends. part I of a two-part series for techpolicy.press/the-cambridge

#CambridgeAnalytica #privacy #TechPolicyPress

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
705 followers · 2218 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

Great question in journalism & culture, more broadly: “Who gets to say what is true?” by Emily Bell with Peter Pomerantzev

#TechPolicyPress #russia #ukraine #propaganda #journalism #putin #warcrimes #communication #likewar #infowar

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
705 followers · 2217 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

How can this NOT be existential? “We are witnessing the structural disintegration of the public sphere” by Peter Pomerantzev with Emily Bell

#TechPolicyPress #russia #ukraine #propaganda #journalism #putin #warcrimes #communication #likewar #infowar

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
705 followers · 2216 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

: One of the many wars happening in & around Ukraine today with Russia: “Can evidence and truth mean anything?” by Peter Pomerantzev

#myparaphrase #TechPolicyPress #russia #ukraine #propaganda #journalism #putin #warcrimes #communication #likewar #infowar

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
705 followers · 2215 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
Siun · @ChristinaSiunOConnell
201 followers · 532 posts · Server federate.social

While discussing how sites like birdsite optimize for outrage with some folks, I remembered how helpful two were to me in disinfo work so wanted to share more widely: did a great tour of podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ and did superb reporting based on including: wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/t (The complete WSJ are remarkable reporting and worth a read (I think are not paywalled?) wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-

#Podcasts #TechPolicyPress #algorithms #wallstreetjournal #franceshaugen #whistleblowing #facebookfiles

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Wesley Fryer (he/him) · @wfryer
521 followers · 841 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
Open Future Foundation · @openfuture
250 followers · 20 posts · Server eupolicy.social

The to Mastodon and the is a unique opportunity to build . But in order to achieve this, the networks need to be maintained in a different way.

In an article on @tarkowski points to Mastodon’s governance and structure as limits to its own growth and sustainability, and proposes three priorities to set to overcome these obstacles.

techpolicy.press/priorities-to

#twittermigration #fediverse #digitalpublicspace #TechPolicyPress

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David Carroll · @profcarroll
11165 followers · 829 posts · Server federate.social

“Part of becoming your own server administrator is confronting the urgent need to block and defederate your community from the absolute worst-of-the-worst.” This quote from my piece this weekend on is so restrained. I’m referring to CSAM, to absolute nazis who have harnessed the occult. I smash these domains and I’m not waiting to defederate until it gets bad. When people tell us who they are we need to believe them.

#TechPolicyPress

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David Carroll · @profcarroll
10777 followers · 794 posts · Server federate.social

Since my once beloved doomscrolling site has been pivoted to an all-out shitposting service by new mgmt, I wrote about starting my own instance for
techpolicy.press/how-to-open-a

#mastodon #TechPolicyPress

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David Carroll · @profcarroll
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