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Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward

The Verge

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The review follows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussing Bluesky earlier this month, when he called it a “standard for the public conversation layer of the internet.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Why social networks need better blocking tools

The Verge

million to launch Block Party , an anti-harassment startup that helps people filter abuse out of their social media experiences. Behind all these stories, I think, is a kind of despair over what public social networks have done to public debate. Last month, Tracy Chou announced that she had raised a little under $1.5

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Microsoft and VMware vet Paul Maritz backs social app built on promise of user privacy

GeekWire

Former VMware CEO and longtime Microsoft executive Paul Maritz is a major investor in True, a social app that vows not to sell or monetize user data. True shows it’s possible to build a social app “not predicated on a business model that requires you to abuse people’s information,” Maritz said.

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The Supreme Court showdown over social media “censorship,” explained

Vox

. | Alex Wong/Getty Images A rogue federal court effectively put the Republican Party in charge of social media, and now the justices have to deal with this mess. Yet, while the Fifth Circuit’s approach to social media has been partisan and hackish, these cases raise genuinely difficult policy questions.

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The surprising link between Covid-19 deaths and. internet access

Vox

The case for treating internet access as a health necessity. One of the more surprising answers to this question is one that appears to have a relatively straightforward solution: internet access. The study authors estimated that for every additional 1 percent of residents in a county who have internet access, between 2.4

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How unbelievably realistic fake images could take over the internet

Vox

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. We’ve had this issue with text and misinformation on social platforms.

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Why decentralized social media is critical in the age of information?

Dataconomy

Social media platforms are the new railroads in the age of information. However, looking at the developments in recent years, one can only question whether they truly serve the purpose they were designed to deliver at the very beginning. Centralized social media: The weak link! The reason?

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