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Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.

Why We Should Not Trust Chatbots As Sources of Information by News

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Stephania Taladrid writes about Texas women who endure clandestine medical procedures and fear of arrest to end pregnancies after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Reflections on getting suspended from Twitter.

Leave Amy Grant alone by Tyler Huckabee

(RNS) — There is nothing left to kick her out of. She’s free. 

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.

For 11 years, Karl Ashanti represented New York City cops in civil-rights cases. Then he was charged with a crime he didn’t commit.

Amy Grant will host a same-sex wedding, Franklin Graham objects, and where does that leave Michael W. Smith? by Rick Pidcock

Amy Grant is hosting her niece’s same-sex wedding on her farm, and Franklin Graham wants everyone to know he disapproves. Of course, this should come as no surprise to Graham. In a 2013 interview with the LGBTQ news outlet PrideSource, Grant said...

No, The FBI Is NOT ‘Paying Twitter To Censor’ by Mike Masnick

Sigh. Look. I want to stop writing about Twitter. I want to write about lots of other stuff. I have a huge list of other stories that I’m trying to get through, but then Elon Musk does something dumb again, and people run wild with it, and (for reasons that perplex me) much of the […]

I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy by Mike Masnick

The last few days on Twitter have been, well, chaotic, I guess? Beyond the blocking of the ElonJet account, followed by the blocking of the @JoinMastodon account, then the blocking of journalists asking about all this and the silly made up defense of it, over the weekend, Twitter announced a new policy banning linking to […]

On Chanukah and the sweet myths we tell ourselves

Moving Past Two-Mindedness

Pluralistic: Better failure for social media (19 Dec 2022) by Cory Doctorow

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Twitter is a soap opera where Musk is the star, the only actor in the spotlight. The world should look away, says Roger McNamee

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

Why You Should Clarify Which Free Speech Value You’re Debating

The incident last week underscored how Elon Musk’s personal concerns can influence his governance of a social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people.