As someone who studies social media I truly can’t remember the last time social media felt so warped 🫠

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Ein sehr hörenswertes, wichtiges Interview 👇

THE HORSES SHOULD GET THE MEDALS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKE COACHES

It has been a scary 24 hours on this app. We are back to policing women's bodies, this time with a new level of vitriol.

After six weeks, I am returning to a country that has yet again become considerably less safe for people of color and queer people. This violent hatred is empowered by politicians and media debates about “legitimate concerns”, by those delegitimizing resistance as “radical left”

"According to three intelligence sources, [Amazon/AWS] provides Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate with a server farm which is used to store masses of intelligence information that assists the army in the war." 972mag.com/cloud-israeli-…

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It is horrific to follow what is happening in the UK. I fear for the safety of my friends and colleagues. These images of torched houses are reminiscent of scenes in Germany in the 90s. Politicians are failing us, we are failing us.

1/x RU is trying to massively slow down YouTube. The Kremlin has threatened to do this for years. They already blocked Facebook, Instagram and slowed down Twitter in 2022. Why wait for so long? Possibly because replacing YouTube with RuTube is like trading a Mercedes for a Lada🧵

Thanks so much to Nasef for having me on the Tahrir Podcast - بودكاست التحرير 🎙, I really enjoyed our conversation!

This piece by 🅽oura 🅰ljizawi is such critical reporting on the vulnerabilities refugees face when their digital security tends to barely be an afterthought. The consequences of having your data leaked as a refugee in an increasingly hostile host country are life-threatening.

What could possibly go wrong when you sell blue ticks to anyone and fire all your content moderators...

And if this topic keeps you up at night, please join Coalition for Independent Technology Research's CrowdTangle funeral on Sept 30: ripcrowdtangle.com

🚨Just published! Centre for International Security - Hertie School's Anita Gohdes with ZacharyST in the AJPS. Read here: doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

EP 42 - ⁦Anita Gohdes⁩: Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence youtu.be/NkF-B9hceXY

Oh I don't know, I think that territory is actually very well charted