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Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking

Enlisting volunteers is how moderation started on the Internet, long before social media giants realized that centralized efforts were necessary. And volunteer moderation can be successful, allowing for the development of bespoke regulations aligned with the needs of particular communities. But without significant commitment and oversight from Meta, such a system cannot contend with how […]

Elon Musk doesn’t know what it takes to make a digital town square

Elon Musk doesn’t know what it takes to make a digital town square

This, though, is just one possibility in the era of Musk, which is just beginning. Now that “the bird is freed,” as he wrote Thursday after officially taking over, many users are concerned that after years of slow improvements to the site’s functionality, policies, and moderation processes, the billionaire’s buyout will broadly result in its […]

I made it big on Twitter. Now I don’t think I can stay.

I made it big on Twitter. Now I don’t think I can stay.

Sure, just staying on Twitter is theoretically an option, but frankly, so is moving on to the next big platform. In terms of social media, Twitter is already aging out of relevance; a lot of online creators are focusing largely on TikTok or Instagram. Much like Facebook, Twitter stopped being cool as soon as its […]

Bitcoin traders aren’t concerned by whether we’re in a recession or not

Bitcoin traders aren’t concerned by whether we’re in a recession or not

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Bitcoin traders don’t care about a recessionDebate over the definition of a recession, and whether we’re in one, feels like a distraction. (CoinDesk)+ Technically the US may now be in recession, but much of the economy remains strong. (The Guardian)+ Here’s […]

Why Twitter still has those terrible Trends

Why Twitter still has those terrible Trends

So what’s important to the world right now? #ClimateScam trended last Friday and drove users to a river of memes about climate change from those who insist it’s a hoax. Earlier this week, “Sodom and Gomorrah” trended in the US, fueled by far-right anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theorists. The term “Satanic Panic” spiked soon after, along with […]

How the internet’s efforts to become more hospitable to visually-impaired users aren’t working

How the internet’s efforts to become more hospitable to visually-impaired users aren’t working

NASA has released the second set of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing galaxies, planets, and stars in unprecedented detail. The new pictures include an incredible study of the atmosphere of a gas giant planet 1,000 light-years from Earth, called WASP-96 b, a dying star throwing off its outer layers, and an […]

Spilling Silicon Valley’s secrets, one tweet at a time

Spilling Silicon Valley’s secrets, one tweet at a time

It isn’t Wong’s job to do this. In fact, she describes reverse-engineering code as her hobby. “I just like to dig deep into the apps and see how they are structured,” she says from her home in Hong Kong, where she lives with her family. She isn’t a hacker; all the data from which she […]