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Parler, the “free speech” social network, explained

Vox

The largely unmoderated and right-wing social network was also involved in the planning of the insurrection , leading some to worry that Parler is a new hotbed of misinformation and extremist activity. If Parler is looking to become a real competitor to the social media giants it criticizes, the company still has a very long way to go.

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Social media is making a bad political situation worse

Vox

Social media seems to be making a bad situation worse. Some of the political lessons we learned recently include that conspiracy theories have real currency — fake news can spread faster than real facts on social media — and that if we don’t agree on a shared reality, more mundane things like political compromise will remain out of reach.

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Coronavirus scammers are flooding social media with fake cures and tests

Vox

For years, Timothy Mackey has been researching the sale of opioids and illicit drugs online , tracking how dealers have used social media to push controlled substances. There’s no proven treatment for Covid-19, but plenty of social media accounts are nevertheless illegally pushing so-called cures or treatments.

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Civil rights organizations want advertisers to dump Facebook

Vox

That change followed intense internal debate among the social media platform’s employees over the company’s decision not to act against a post by President Donald Trump in which he wrote “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” about the protests in Minneapolis. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The Twitter power users who can’t just quit

Vox

But while many prominent journalists have raised concerns about Musk’s actions — and some have shifted to new social media platforms like Mastodon and Post — few have abandoned Twitter altogether. Since it’s part of Lorenz’s job to cover social media, she remains on the platform.

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How to shape strategy and lead for 2050: SxSW Sydney session

Trends in the Living Networks

It’s like a neural network. Another fundamental shift is preprint and open access journals. Another development which has been absolutely fundamental is open source. Many of the lower levels of the technology stacks are open source, so people can immediately go to higher levels of value creation.

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Why it matters that TikTok wants to reveal its algorithms

Vox

As the leaders of the US tech giants are grilled by Congress, TikTok’s CEO aimed to set a new standard for transparency from social media companies. Ultimately, he said, TikTok would be a model for how other social media companies could be more transparent, a commitment that echoed recent calls for TikTok to become this very example.

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