Seth Dillon notes that the goal of fact-checking isn’t to eliminate misinformation but dissent, to make it impossible to challenge preferred narratives.
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While some think he is merely placating Trump, we may well ask why he should WANT to impose government censorship on the social medium he had built up himself.
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Singal wisely concludes the essay by saying that we don’t have a right-wing or a left-wing problem but a human problem.
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Is it any wonder that Silicon Valley CEOs ban their own children from social media? When did a phone become more fun than parties and people?
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Outright banning alone does not work and will not have the outcome its Aussie supporters believe it will. Give kids reasons for limits and rules.
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Government experts may not be better informed than non-government ones. Banning alternative information multiplies the effect of government misinformation.
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No one is safe from harmful internet content anymore, especially not on algorithm-driven social media sites. It’s no secret that the internet is stuffed with smut, pornography, and other graphic media, but the algorithms that prize engagement over the quality of the content takes the danger to a whole new level. Anthony Bradley, a scholar at the Acton Institute who writes often on fatherhood, masculinity, and religion, warns about the dangers of social media in his latest Substack post. He urges fathers to intervene on behalf of their sons and train them to literally war against these algorithms feeding them total garbage. Bradley writes, While girls are generally recommended content about makeup, music, or social topics, boys are funneled toward Read More ›
Mahlburg on the open triumph of Cancel Culture: “not only is the emperor naked — he’s self-consciously streaking around the town square.”
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Pavel Durov’s arrest chilled social media bosses but elated those who think it is time for governments, worldwide, to exert more control over what we say.
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The internet crashed the cost of independent content creation but it also crashed the cost of censorship via compliant big social media platforms.
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As governments increasingly attempt to control news, a question looms: What they will do when prebunking disapproved information doesn’t prevent Wrongthink?
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One of our readers writes to say, “I resisted the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960s, and I will resist the dictatorship of a judge in 2024.”
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His letter to the House Committee, strategically or otherwise, doesn’t say whether Meta would have made the same decisions without government pressure.
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The platform continues to grow — and may be evolving into a new type of medium — but first it must survive massive industry hostility.
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The judge ruled that Google operates unlawfully: It effectively excludes competitors while its prices and services are unresponsive to consumer market demands.
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Legacy media want something DONE about the new bottom-up news media that are an existential threat to traditional top-down media.
Read More ›The FORCES acronym helps us sense when a website, app, news report, or video source is nudging us to think and act in ways that perhaps we hadn’t expected.
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Video producer Adam Nieri looks at the pros and cons of a post-AI world and recommends structured timeouts to regain perspective.
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YouTube doesn’t want to harm its business model, which thrives on sensation and controversy but it must also avoid at all costs a legal and political powderkeg.
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How much good science would have seen the light in the last 600 years if “Institutional Voices” had been heard from even more often than they were?
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