axbom’s avataraxbom’s Twitter Archive—№ 29,546

  1. For decades democratic countries worked on putting structures in place to help news media scrutinize power, to discourage false reporting and deter misleading information. Social media circumvented the structures and became the power itself. Lies and threats became currency.
    1. …in reply to @axbom
      — History books of the future 🧐 The implication being that we are currently writing the second paragraph of that chapter...
      1. …in reply to @axbom
        ”What Facebook fails to acknowledge is that it isn’t neutral. It is favoring candidates who smear their opponents [...]” theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/facebook-elizabeth-warren-regulation by ellgood and KarenKornbluh