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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨

➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

hopeful findings👇🏽

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 10h

"Fines against Big Tech don't work" repeat after me

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 1d

Ich teile die Einschätzung – und bin gerade deshalb überrascht, dass ihr mit der Überschrift ("AfD vor der Macht?") genau an das Erfolgs-Geraune anknüpft.

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Amish Super Model @amishsupermodel.bsky.social · Dec 14

Me: What’s your Wi-fi password?

Priest: Sir, this is a funeral.

Me: Is that all caps?

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 4d

Nur so für's Protokoll: Find's voll okay, "KI darf nicht lügen" zu schreiben, weil das inhaltlich den Kern trifft. Vielen Dank für den Hinweis auf die Entscheidung.

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 4d

Habe lange gezögert und bin nun bei Fairmail gelandet, ebenfalls Open Source.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 9d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 5d

@anke.domscheit-berg.de , vielleicht passts ja mit der RE-Verbindung und man sieht sich dort? 🤞

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 6d

One of my favorite pieces of platform research is the econ paper on big tech being driven by FOMO: On TikTok and Instagram, "large shares of active users prefer each platform not to exist".
www.nber.org/papers/w31771

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 7d

Ihr habt wahrgenommen, welchen Unterschied zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in den letzten Tagen bei der Frage der Chatkontrolle gemacht hat?
Gut.
Lasst euch nicht einreden, Engagement nütze nichts.

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 8d

Link ist bei mir ein 404er

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 12d

Wenn Big Tech auf bloßen US-Regierungs*wunsch* (nicht: Rechtspflicht!) Apps entfernt, sollten uns in 🇪🇺 endlich bessere Ideen kommen als "Plattformregulierung", um unsere digitale Souveränität (i.e. Demokratie) zu retten.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration

Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.

www.reuters.com

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12d

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12d

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

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D64 @d-64.org · 13d

Ohne private Kommunikation entsteht eine Atmosphäre der Selbstzensur.

„Wir schaffen damit eine Infrastruktur, die autokratische Staaten in und außerhalb Europas zur Verfolgung von Oppositionellen und zur Unterdrückung von Kritik nutzen könnten“, so @sveawindwehr.bsky.social

#ChatkontrolleStoppen

Chatkontrolle: Zivilgesellschaft warnt vor massiven Grundrechtseinschränkungen | D64 – Zentrum für digitalen Fortschritt

"Die sogenannte Chatkontrolle untergräbt Grundrechte, ohne den Schutz von Betroffenen zu verbessern" erklärt Svea Windwehr, Co-Vorsitzende von D64.

d-64.org

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Bluesky-Briefing 🦋 @bluesky-tipps.bsky.social · 14d

Flashes - die Instagram-Alternative aus Berlin sucht Beta-Tester:innen für ihre Android-Version. Interessierte tragen einfach hier ihre Emailadresse ein: 👇

Flashes App 🌩️ @flashes.blue · 16d

Android people: if you want to be part of the beta test, please leave an email address here:

Flashes Android Beta 🤖

Leave your email to be included in the beta test

forms.gle

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17d

All EU countries appear to be gone in the Google political ad library

By @lizcarolan.com

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 21d

Whenever I thought about the fact that I'd potentially live to see some form of dystopian future, I expected/hoped it would be a lot more Cyberpunk and a lot less shit.

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 22d

... and therefore potentially more relevant and engaging. And for that matter: also more self-regulating/moderating. Such a community might be even harder to establish from within the existing hype networks. But it might be a good application of Mastodon-type of architectures

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 22d

Add re vertical drift: I wonder whether it's mostly us extroverts enjoying the global hype machine. I've been thinking a lot about the potential of social media for local public spheres. Where the discussion is much closer to people's everyday lives ...

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 22d

I could imagine a centralized "baseline" moderation on larger scale (e.g. national or 🇪🇺 level) and sub-communities with stricter/special rules. I think that a certain degree of centralization (in terms of infrastructure, moderation) isn't just a question of (dangerous) power, but also efficiency (?)

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23d

they boutta find out how hard it is to get people to resubscribe once they cancel a service

Jimmy Kimmel's Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday
Night
The network removal of Mr. Kimmel's show last week almost immediately morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America.

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 23d

and re: moderation effort
bsky.app/profile/torb...

Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 23d

One could argue that this is exactly where the societal value of social media (democratic discourse) calls for a societal contribution (moderation effort).
IMHO this is not so different from the idea of public service broadcasting.

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 23d

Isn't this exactly the idea of Mastodon & the Fediverse/ActivityPub? By choosing a certain server, you partake in the network as a whole but at the same time submit to the server's community standards - potentially cutting you off of other instances with laxer rules

bsky.app/profile/neut...

Seasonal Affectation Disorder @neutral.zone · 23d

Tens of thousands of self-contained, slightly overlapping villages. Of course, the impulse to "solve" this kind of problem are still there. I'm already mentally gaming the idea of how you could reframe this with SimClusters to make it more granular. But that's a reductive impulse.

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Torben Klausa @torbatschow.de · 23d

One could argue that this is exactly where the societal value of social media (democratic discourse) calls for a societal contribution (moderation effort).
IMHO this is not so different from the idea of public service broadcasting.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23d

there's going to be a lot of "TikTok was always bad!" comments, but a MAGA owned TikTok will make the days of Chinese ownership look like a summer picnic

ByteDance was at least trying to behave due to past pressures by semi-competent administrations

MAGA TikTok faces zero oversight constraints

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