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Sameer Hasan

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Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

"after the company's own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent, Meta is shutting them off"

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 15

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer.

The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

January 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM

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Maggie Smith

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social

Lucille Clifton, always.

“i am running into a new year” by Lucille Clifton

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me

December 30, 2024 at 12:00 PM

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💙RoamingCaptainRoman💙

@roamingcaptain.bsky.social

December 24, 2024 at 1:47 AM

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Prem Thakker ツ

@premthakker.bsky.social

Today marks 300 days since Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family members, and the medics sent to save her in Gaza.

For months, I have pressed the US government again and again on the killing.

How they’ve responded is shocking.

Watch all 300 days here: zeteo.com/p/300-days-a...

November 24, 2024 at 3:01 PM

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Al Jazeera English

@aljazeera.com

sraeli attacks have caused "massive destruction" in Beirut, Lebanon, while also targeting Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza for a second time.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/34qdmr

November 25, 2024 at 12:10 AM

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Al Jazeera English

@aljazeera.com

Video shows a Palestinian man reciting the Quran beside the body of an infant, believed to be 10 months old, and his father who were both killed in an Israeli air attack on Gaza City.

November 24, 2024 at 2:26 PM

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Anonymous

@youranoncentral.bsky.social

#Bluesky traffic up by 500%, absolutely crushing Threads and X (twitter).

Millions are choosing the good place.

www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g...

Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will they handle the surge?

Unlike other social media sites, Bluesky allows users to create their own algorithm. The site does not have ads, nor harvest data for artificial intelligence training. But it is still very small and has an unproven business record.

www.npr.org

November 20, 2024 at 4:39 AM

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Jay 🦋

@jay.bsky.team

Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app

November 23, 2024 at 5:54 AM

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Omid Safi

@brotheromid.bsky.social

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November 23, 2024 at 3:27 PM

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Jehad Abusalim

@jehadabusalim.bsky.social

There’s a photo circulating of the Zionist army rounding up doctors, nurses, and patients from a hospital in northern Gaza. The detainees are blindfolded, stripped of their clothes, their hands zip-tied. One of them leans on crutches.