Tag: Meta
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Lush, Social Media, and the Case for Walking Away
In early January, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a major shift in Meta’s content moderation policy, starting in the United States with significantly scaling back efforts to combat misinformation and harmful content. At the time, I said this decision raises…
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Meta’s Moderation and An Uncomfortable Truth About Social Networks
On 7 January, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to content moderation and fact-checking across Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram and Threads – sparking widespread reaction and debate about the future of online discourse and the role of social networks in…
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Early days experiences on Bluesky
Just over three weeks ago, I signed up for Bluesky, the new social networking service started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and currently in private beta for users who join via an invitation code from someone who already signed up.…
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The metaverse is not your destination
When Meta fka Facebook announced its change of purpose and name last year to become a self-described “social technology company,” it was widely seen as a signficant move in establishing the leading role in defining and enabling the metaverse as…
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Lush shows it’s time for an anti social media policy
At the dawn of the social media age fifteen and more years ago, everything was about blogs. This was the time just before Facebook, before Twitter, even before YouTube, when blogs started to gain momentum from the early-to-mid 2000s when…