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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By David Stretfield @ Technology @ nytimes.com, May 20
[.....] Mr. Williams — a Twitter founder, a co-creator of Blogger — set everyone free, providing tools to address the world. In the history of communications technology, it was a development with echoes of Gutenberg.
And so here we are in 2017. How’s it going, Mr. Williams?
“I think the internet is broken,” he says. He has believed this for a few years, actually. But things are getting worse. “And it’s a lot more obvious to a lot of people that it’s broken.”
People are using Facebook to showcase suicides, beatings and murder, in real time. Twitter is a hive of trolling and abuse that it seems unable to stop. Fake news, whether created for ideology or profit, runs rampant. Four out of 10 adult internet users said in a Pew survey that they had been harassed online. And that was before the presidential campaign heated up last year.
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them [....]
For five years, Mr. Williams has been refining a communications platform called Medium. Its ambition: define a new model for media in a world struggling under the weight of fake or worthless content. Medium is supposed to be social and collaborative without rewarding the smash-ups. It is supposed to be a force for good [....]
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The Guardian got a yuge leak of Facebook's internal policy files. They are doing a ton of stories, starting today, on what they found @
https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/facebook-files
starting with:
Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence
Has Facebook become e a forum for misogyny and racism?
The Facebook Files: sex, violence and hate speech – video explainer
Facebook's internal guidance on showing graphic violence
Facebook moderators: a quick guide to their job and its challenges
Facebook's manual on credible threats of violence
Facebook's internal manual on non-sexual child abuse content
Facebook's rules on showing cruelty to animals
Facebook will let users livestream self-harm, leaked documents show
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 1:50pm