Bluesky’s Attie is an AI tool built on AT Protocol that helps people create custom social feeds from public social data. Interesting idea, but it also raises real privacy questions: when AI analyzes your public posts, likes, and follows, it can infer a lot more about you than you may expect.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/blueskys-ai-assistant-attie-expands-into-an-open-social-research-tool/

#Bluesky #ATProto #SocialMedia #AI

"Starting Sunday in #EU, #AI #chatbots, receptionists, #media must reveal they are not human"

https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/02/starting-sunday-eu-ai-chatbots-receptionists-media-must-reveal-human

This is excellent

But:

Laws require enforcement

Or they are just feel-good declarations that rot the rule of law: a corpus of laws without bite means the law has no meaning. A dangerous precedent

So *how* do we fight AI. Especially on #socialMedia

You have to understand it's an existential threat. Not to #Mastodon/ #Fediverse, but *all* social media... all media

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an abstract image of "AI"

Most Australian teens still on #SocialMedia three months after under-16 ban began, study finds

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/most-australian-teens-still-social-media-three-months-after-under-16-ban-began-2026-07-31/

#Australia #SocialMediaBan #AgeVerification #privacy

Amending #AB1709 Doesn’t Fix It: #California’s #SocialMediaBan Still Threatens Free Speech and #Privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/amending-ab-1709-doesnt-fix-it-californias-social-media-ban-still-threatens-free

#SocialMedia #AgeVerification

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens as pressure, lawsuits over child safety mount.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The families are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as 'years of escalating harms.'"

https://flip.it/H7Nxzd

#SocialMedia #Tech #Technology

Lot of fedi commentary on #Australia's #RoyalCommission.

Pretty standard. Five testimonies about firebombing a #synagogue, being cut off from employment opportunities, harrassed in the street, or mass-fucking-murdered on #Bondibeach will get ignored. One person whining people were mean to them for wearing an #Israel pin proves their case against #antisemitism being real.

Things like the royal commission are huge tactical errors on the part of #Jewish #diaspora institutions. They're so stuck on these failed strategies they think doing the same shit harder bigger faster stronger will defeat antisemitism™.

It fuels it.

If the underlying #bigotry believes #Jews control #media, #government and whatever, then anything in the media or by the government, etc that demonstrates antisemitism proves the fucking #conspiracy to them... and the opposite also proves it. Magic!

#Socialmedia is an accelerant. Ya can't win playing a crooked fucking game.

Boomer anti-antisemitism = the wise men of Chelm.

Alt...

Once upon a time, an angel, carrying a sackful of foolish souls back to heaven for repair, snagged his sack on a tree growing on top of a tall mountain top. The sack tore and alas, all the poor, foolish souls spilled out of the ripped sack, rolled down the mountain side into the town of Chelm where they stayed from that day on. - The Wise Men of Helm and their Merry Tales by Solomon Simon Image: Jeffrey Allon, "The Wise Men of Chelm Capture the Moon", from the book Ten Traditional Jewish Children's Stories [a group of bearded men standing around a barrel with the moon's reflection in it mostly wearing Tevye caps, one in a Streimel]]

Mashable: Central Park lawyers’ viral kiss sparks privacy debate. “On July 23, TikTok creator Jay Guapõ, who boasts 3.5 million followers, posted a video showing a man and woman kissing near Central Park West and West 63rd Street. Guapõ approaches them while continuing to record. ‘Get a room. There’s kids around,’ he tells them.”

This is something that stems from the bulletin board system period.

When people started to Flame each other they were just banging at the keyboard

BBS flame wars

What happens now {last 20 years} is the same; they can only be horrific towards each other when banging at the keyboard.

I've been told that people in industrialized countries can be very lonely. Hundreds of them in a building but they are still lonely

Often that loneliness is portrayed in a negative manner on public internet forums by people who often live a miserable life. Some of them in the US many, can also not pay for the psychiatric care they need.

The end result is a mess of a comment section

@rl_dane

#Social #Media #SocialMedia #troll #reaction #any #good #YouTube #no #TV

Sometimes, Sharpie on scraps, done quickly and cheaply, says more than an AI-generated image ever could."

Bettina Makalintal for Eater: https://www.eater.com/trends/975087/restaurants-lean-into-bespoke-handmade-elements-during-ai-flyer-backlash

#Longreads #AI #SocialMedia #Restaurants #Analog

In this article, I share how I approach language learning. Check it out.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/29/anki-meets-chatgpt-for-snacks-in-paris-for-lunch/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #learning #teaching #memory #psychology #blog #podcast #french #anki #italki #youtube #socialmedia #resources #advice #ai #chatgpt #claude

Reuters: US FTC sues Hims & Hers for sending user health info to Meta, Snap. “The U.S. Federal Trade ​Commission sued Hims & Hers on Wednesday alleging the telehealth platform shared users’ health ‌data with online advertisers, despite promising privacy, and engaged in deceptive billing and cancellation practices.”

#Brazil gives parents #SocialMedia controls for their kids. Should the #US?

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/07/28/brazil-gives-parents-social-media-controls-for-their-kids-should-the-u-s

#privacy #SocialMediaBan #AgeVerification

Russia has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism, claiming the popular messaging app had been used by Ukrainian spies to organise attacks. If convicted, the billionaire could face up to life in prison.

https://flip.it/q-sN4F

#Russia #Telegram #SocialMedia

"#Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal,” the organization said in a statement. “Governments must stop reacting after #Jews are attacked and start acting before, with real #securityfunding, stronger laws and #socialmedia platforms that enforce their own rules.”

Fifteen Jews were #murdered at a #Hanukkah celebration on #BondiBeach in #Sydney, two were #killed at #HeatonPark #Synagogue in #Manchester on #YomKippur, two were killed at the Capital #Jewish Museum in #WashingtonDC, and one was killed in #Boulder, #Colorado.

The figure was the highest since 1994, when 85 people — including 67 Jews — were killed in the #AMIA #bombing in #Argentina."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-deadliest-year-in-decades-for-diaspora-jews-task-force-warns-hate-is-our-new-normal/

In 1868 Dostoyevsky perfectly described social media

"Some have only to meet with some idea by hearsay, or to read some stray page, to believe at once that it is their own opinion and has sprung spontaneously from their own brain. The impudence of simplicity, if one may so express it, is amazing in such cases. It is almost incredible, but yet often to be met with. This impudence of simplicity, this unhesitating confidence of the stupid in himself and his talents"

#socialmedia #ageOfStupid

United and American don't just swap miles with hotels and card partners. Airline data broker ARC sells passenger travel records to DHS and marketers, cross-linked with your card spending into a full movement profile.

#privacy #surveillance #socialmedia #indigoprivacy

France plans to require age verification for social media, with access potentially blocked for users under 15 who don't have parental consent.

Supporters say it's about protecting children online. Critics warn that mandatory age verification could impact privacy, anonymity, and data collection.

Read more: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/07/france-social-media-ban-age-verification-privacy.html

#Privacy #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #France #DigitalRights #OnlinePrivacy #TechNews #DigitalEscapeTools

#SocialMedia addiction lawsuit against #Meta is dropped

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/social-media-addiction-lawsuit-against-meta-is-dropped/

#Facebook #Instagram #privacy

Associated Press: EU finds TikTok violates its digital rule book by failing to protect privacy of minors. “The European Commission on Friday said it found TikTok had not adequately protected children’s privacy rights on its platform by allowing adults to view the accounts of minors. The action exposed children to cyberbullying, unwanted contact and predatory behavior, commission spokesperson […]

#France becomes first #EU country to ban #SocialMedia access for under-15s

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/21/france-ban-social-media-access-under-15s

#SocialMediaBan #privacy #politics #Europe #AgeVerification #cybersecurity

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"The mayor of #NorthBay and a #Jewish advocacy organization are condemning a weekend gathering that appears to be taking place somewhere in the area— that organizers themselves are calling “#Bigotfest”— saying hate and discrimination have no place in the community.

The three-day event, scheduled for July 24 to 26, has been promoted on #socialmedia by prominent members and associates of #SecondSonsCanada, a group that describes itself as a “#Canadian men’s #nationalist club” founded in 2024.

On its website, #SecondSons says it’s committed to defending what it claims is a threatened way of life through political activism and fitness training.

“We're deeply concerned with the rise of the Second Sons and with the danger that they present to Canadian society," said #RichardRobertson, #BnaiBrith #Canada’s director of research and advocacy.

"They’re opposed to Canadian values, they’re virulently racist, they’re #antiSemitic."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/bigotfest-active-clubs-north-bay-reaction-9.7281076

#Leaked Document Shows the #Surveillance Tech at ICE’s Fingertips

A leaked document shows the spread of surveillance and investigative capabilities that Immigration and #Customs Enforcement (#ICE ) officials have access to agency wide, from location data harvested from #smartphones , to facial recognition apps that can reveal someone’s #identity , to tools that let the agency stay #anonymous online and approach people #undercover. The document covers everything from monitoring social media to tracking the movements of vehicles.

It is rare for the public to see such a large list of ICE’s technology capabilities in a single document. 404 Media has published the whole document, called “ICE Wide Analytical Tools,” below.
#privacy #socialmedia

https://www.404media.co/leaked-document-shows-the-surveillance-tech-at-ices-fingertips/

After #TikTok, #Snap settles #SocialMedia addiction case

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/after-tiktok-snap-settles-social-media-addiction-case/

#privacy

The checklist for a social media post is ever getting longer:

Is it fake?
Is it by a bot?
Is it by a troll?
Is it click bait?
Is it rage bait?
Is it a dogmatical post?
Is it a fanatical post?
Is it a puritanical post?
Is it by a toxic poster?
Or is it posted only to annoy or tease?

(There is an even longer version...)

#EternalSeptember
#InformationAge
#InformationSociety
#LifeInTheInformationAge
#SocialMedia
#SocialPsychology
#UmbertoEco2015

France passes law banning under-15s from social media

It will be implemented in two stages:
- From September, people under 15 will not be able to open accounts and age verification will be required on all new accounts
- In January 2027, this rule will apply to all existing accounts - meaning everyone in France will have to prove they are over 15 to use social media

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq56l9p4y93o

#France #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #Privacy

RE: https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/116961593297443609

I may be sounding tongue-in-cheek, but I've been humouring the idea of "the email of social media" and/or "social media of email".

I'm trying to see just how viable such an interface will be.

Pretty much embrace the email-like nature of ActivityPub.

The folks who looooove acting competitive (you know, antagonism towards a competing ideas) love to scoff at ActivityPub (well, really, the Mastodon protocols overall).

I actually don't think they're wrong.

For this reason, I think ActivityPub is fine for what it is.

In fact, embrace it.

Treat it like email, with one added feature: the idea of "following".

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Email

I'm not so sure this kind of stuff fits the definition of 'academic and cultural boycott' I keep hearing.

"An anonymous online form asking people to report the locations of #Jews and #Israeli #tourists in #Italy has been taken down after government officials intervened, media reports say.

The Google form, circulated on #socialmedia and messaging groups before it was removed, asked users to identify Jews, #Israelis and people believed to have ties to #Zionism at hotels, vacation rentals, businesses and other public places. Its purpose was to “map #Zionist #tourism” and “Zionist neo-colonization” in Italy, the form said."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/italy-shuts-down-jew-hunting-online-form-after-uproar/

As France follows Australia in banning social media use for the under-15s the key will be the form & practice of the state-approved age-verification process mandated from January.

Here, the debate on such a social media ban (supported by Keir Starmer) has been the age-verification process' invasion of privacy & its data requirement(s).

The Q. is: can France find a way to meet such objections, or merely ride roughshod over them?

#SocialMedia #politics #privacy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq56l9p4y93o

France Jumps Off Cliff, Passes Age Verification Laws

France has passed the failed age verification laws and set the restriction to 15 years of age and younger.

https://www.freezenet.ca/france-jumps-off-cliff-passes-age-verification-laws/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #facepalm #France #legislation #SocialMedia

While doomscrolling a neuroscience news site* I learned that

"Digital media ... By saturating the mind with effortless, instant algorithmic rewards, digital platforms subjectively inflate the cost of mental exertion, training users to abandon deep, demanding tasks in favor of constant, low-friction digital exploration."

Ouch!

*: https://neurosciencenews.com

#socialmedia #neuroscience #science #psychology #doomscrolling

An experienced YouTuber said the following

• When you published something on the Internet any reaction is a good reaction
• If someone attempts to troll you shower them with love and affection
• Trolls hate Love and will run back under their Bridge
• If someone reacts extremely negative see rule number one and silently thank them

The fact that a person reacts to something written by someone thousands of nautical miles away is a feat which should be cherished

@rl_dane

#Social #Media #SocialMedia #troll #reaction #any #good #YouTube #no #TV

The #Fediverse is perhaps the only #socialMedia that still deserves to be called “social media”.

Because this is perhaps the only remaining social media whose primary function is socializing, not advertising.

"As I’ve argued before, I think Haidt’s book has done exactly what Gray was afraid it might do – namely, it has played into and exacerbated a moral panic over smartphones and social media and their alleged impact on the emotional and psychological wellbeing of teenagers. The architect of the Australian social-media age-gating law, South Australian premier Peter Malinouskas, described in an interview how his wife had recommended Haidt’s Anxious Generation to him, and how after reading it he had resolved to take action. His wife “put the book down on her lap and turned to me and said you’ve really got to do something about this,” he said. “And then I stopped and thought about it and thought maybe we actually can.” So he introduced state-level legislation hoping it could win federal support. It did, and since then the UK has passed a new law it says was modeled on the Australian one (modeled so closely that it too offered virtually no evidence that such a law was necessary), and Canada is also considering one.

As a journalist who once worked for the Columbia Journalism Review, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that one of the biggest proponents of Jonathan Haidt’s views about cellphones and social media and their impact on the wellbeing of teenagers has been the media."

https://mathewingram.com/work/2026/07/16/kids-need-to-explore-the-world-and-that-includes-social-media/

#SocialMedia #PlayTime #MentalHealth #MoralPanic #Censorship #Fascism

#WelcomeToTheFediverse, @Lone!

As you might have learned, the #Fediverse is quite different from corporate #SocialMedia sites.

In particular, there's *no* automatic #algorithm. *People* are the algorithm.

As with moving to a new neighborhood, you need to engage consistently.

The first two steps are to create a relevant #Bio and a pinned #Introduction that you (re)boost every week or so.
Here are some further tips to make this a worthwhile experience here:

Good luck!

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109960697083138864

UK Pushes for Baffling Social Media Curfew for Teens

The UK, like others, is experiencing disaster with age verification, so it's now doubling down with a curfew on social media.

https://www.freezenet.ca/uk-pushes-for-baffling-social-media-curfew-for-teens/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #SocialMedia #teens #UK

Age verification plans: “The problem is platform design, not age”

The EU plans stricter rules for online youth protection. Marielle Findorff from vzbv explains why age checks are not the solution.

https://www.heise.de/en/background/Age-verification-plans-The-problem-is-platform-design-not-age-11364562.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #EU #Internet #IT #Netzpolitik #SocialMedia #Wirtschaft #news

Children's #SocialMedia curbs planned across #EU, von der Leyen says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/eu-propose-limit-kids-social-media-access-von-der-leyen-says-2026-07-13/

#AgeVerification #privacy #cybersecurity #Europe #politics #SocialMediaBan

EU Chief: We “Need” to Embarrass Ourselves Further With Age Verification

Ursula von der Leyen continues to double down on failed age verification laws, vaguely pointing to "predatory algorithms".

https://www.freezenet.ca/eu-chief-we-need-to-embarrass-ourselves-further-with-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #EU #Europe #SocialMedia

@collective_truth Was that description your own experience using #SocialTools at the turn of this century with options like blogs, wikis and the early instances of #SocialMedia (i.e. Twitter, Flickr, del.icio.us, etc. etc.).

What you're describing above is the exact opposite of what those social tools once were. Some still are, by the way!

To me, that's the opportunity we have to unlearn & relearn from that experience to do better.

.cc @timbray

@elsua54 @timbray Video about why #Mastodon fails like Twitter [if the aim is for active social movement...]

"Why I'm NEVER Joining Mastodon." #EricMurphy

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Lixz5qTCMGI

Main point:

Neither #Mastodon (or #Twitter) creates / stimulate or make much or a social movement itself - it's better software not socially improving itself.

Mastodon or it's designers aren't doing the people work, which is the real evolution of communication & improvement humanity needs.

#SocialMedia #Twitter #X

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116891415911514354

You know what? Whenever people may ask me why I heart #Mastodon big time and why I'm no longer interested in traditional enshittified #SocialMedia tools, I'm going to start sharing this fabulous blog post by @timbray that pretty much nails it, as far as I am concerned.

In fact, for those folks who were using Twitter circa 2006 to 2010 it's a lovely trip down the memory lane of what #Web20 promised back then 👌🏻😎

#SovereignByDesign #Fediverse #FuckTheAlgorithm #Enshittification

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@timbray@cosocial.ca

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

My people came from Vilna. I have zero desire to go visit Europe. Its just one giant Jewish graveyard in my mind.

"A rare "antisemitic incident in #Lithuania: A local #blogger and #socialmedia activist was arrested after being filmed spitting at three #Israeli #rabbis visiting #Vilnius and urging others to do the same.

According to #Lithuanian authorities, the suspect, #GintarasLiutkevičius, posted a video on social media showing him approaching the three #Jews, who were wearing traditional religious clothing, spitting toward them and encouraging others to follow his example.

“I heard you love to spit on #Christians ... what if I spit on you?” he is heard saying in the video. “You need to go home. This is not your home. This is Lithuania — go home.”

https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/rjjjgezefe?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

@thenewoil Thinking that Meta would choose to keep users thoughts/emotions read only would be naive.

If their AI's can access and read users emotions, they can use their outputs to influence emotions, as Meta's much cruder 2012 study showed.

That pales in comparison to what would be possible now.

The importance of transparency in what the algorithms show you and why has never been more important.

#Meta #Privacy #SocialMedia #Influence

When We Create a Hostile Offline Environment for Teens, They Take Refuge Online

One of the things people talk about with age verification is that teens are sucked in and need to get off. That's not what's happening.

https://www.freezenet.ca/when-we-create-a-hostile-offline-environment-for-teens-they-take-refuge-online/

#Censorship #Editorial #News #ChatRoom #Internet #kids #social #SocialMedia #teens

Instagram and Facebook will likely require a redesign after EU rules they’re "addictive."

@theverge reports: https://flip.it/YyLaHu

#Meta #EU #SocialMedia

Holy moly, I had occasion to look at my old Twitter feed today (I will never willingly call it X), and it's deader than a doornail. There are still people posting there, but the frequency is less than my Fediverse feed with way more users.

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Twitter

The complete dismantling of Meta would offer unambiguous, far reaching benefits for all of humanity.

#Meta #MarkZuckerberg #SocialMedia #BillionairesAreParasites #CorporateParasites

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New York Post @nypost - Jul 7 Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case - a sum equal to tech giant's valuation trib.al/ErF1SrX Photo of Mark Zuckerberg. Medium shot of him standing in what seems to be a hallway. Behind him are people with cameras taking pictures.

Ars Technica: Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC. “Ahead of a July 2 deadline to submit public comments, advocates are warning the Federal Trade Commission that it must keep close watch over Elon Musk’s X and firmly reject a recent bid to end the agency’s ongoing audits of the platform’s data handling.”

@mspro

Chef von Wikipedia (ein traditioneller Frauenjob) ist Bernadette Meehan, zuvor Foreign Service Officer, Botschafterin, line officer für Außenministerin Clinton, Mitglied des National Security Council NSC, chief international officer der Obama Foundation, heute mit der Aufgabe die Mitmachenden von Wikipedia vor staatlicher und nichtstaatlicher Verfolgung zu beschützen.

@wikipedia @wikimediaDE @magnusmanske @wikimediafoundation @Data_is

#predictionMarket #wikipedia #wikimedia #internet #regression #GLAM #pfadgelegenheit #tendenz #besserwisser #besserwisserei #valueCreation #zeitalterDesEnzyklopädismus #Enzyklopädie #socialMedia #Grokipedia

"Learning platform #ShoutOut, designed to teach #students how to recognize and respond to #Holocaust denial and #antisemitism on #socialmedia, has officially launched in #Germany, the University of #DuisburgEssen (UDE) announced.

The new digital program was presented at the Conference on #Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (#ClaimsConference) in #Berlin on June 26.

ShoutOut mainly offers a 15-minute immersive virtual game in which players roleplay as trainees in a resistance movement and learn how to identify and deconstruct #antisemitic patterns and content, while being educated on how it spreads online."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-901795

WOW decentralized and ENCRYPTED social media over #chatmail this is such an epic prototype!

the fun part is that by using chatmail:

- DMs are already end-to-end encrypted
- your identity is your encryption key and doesn't depend on a single home server
- your profile is basically uncensorable

since you need to give people your invite link it is kind of like private social network

https://github.com/lambadalambda/deltanet/

#ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #chatmail #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon #encryption #e2ee

"The extremely obvious truth (which is barely even veiled) is that at least most of these hustlebros are faking it." —Jason Koebler for 404 Media

https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/?src=longreads

#longreads #hustle #scam #socialmedia #reading #writing

🧠📱 Who actually owns the #digitaldiscourse?

💡 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/22/social-bots-desinformation/

📎 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Wissenschaftstheorie/ringvorlesung/aktuelleRV.html

#ChristianGrimme #CenterforPhilosophyofScience #ZfW #UniversityofMünster #Science #ScienceCommunication #SocialMedia #Disinformation #SocialBots #DigitalReality #MichelFoucault #Discourse #DarkParticipation #ComputationalSocialScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MediaLiteracy #Philosophy #PhilosophyofScience #DigitalPublicSphere #Enlightenment #philosophies_de

Alt...

Man with laptop and social media

🧠📱 Wem gehört eigentlich der #digitaleDiskurs ?

💡 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/22/social-bots-desinformation/

📎 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Wissenschaftstheorie/ringvorlesung/aktuelleRV.html

#ChristianGrimme #ZentrumfürWissenschaftstheorie #ZfW #UniMünster #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaftskommunikation #SocialMedia #Desinformation #SocialBots #DigitaleRealität #MichelFoucault #Diskurs #DarkParticipation #ComputationalSocialScience #KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Medienkompetenz #Philosophie #Wissenschaftstheorie #DigitaleÖffentlichkeit #Aufklärung #philosophies_de

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Mann mit Laptop und Social Media

Two More Studies Show that Australia’s Age Verification Laws Have Failed

Research in one analysis show that 7 in 10 teens still have accounts on Facebook. Another shows 60% are still on social media.

https://www.freezenet.ca/two-more-studies-show-that-australias-age-verification-laws-have-failed/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #fail #research #SocialMedia #study

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and DCMS have binned off the cesspit formally known as Twitter 🚮

We can tackle the concentrated power of social media giants by backing federated platforms like BlueSky and Mastodon.

UK politicians and government bodies should join, so people aren’t forced to use X or Meta to get updates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrx1ee2r4o

#x #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #ukpolitics #lisanandy #ukpol

Massachusetts' Senate bill S.3164 tries to protect kids online without the privacy tradeoff. Instead of forcing everyone to upload a government ID to verify their age, it turns off addictive, surveillance-driven features like infinite scroll by default.

#privacy #ageverification #socialmedia #digitalrights #indigoprivacy

What do your opinions of Ronaldo and Messi say about your politics? Nieman Lab interviewed Saifuddin Ahmed, lead author of a study that used the two star footballers to look at how social media shapes preferences.

https://flip.it/H..mNp

#SocialMedia #Algorithms #Soccer

Wiener demonstrates my opinion that we should retreat from participation in the public sphere. Let them "win."

"If you are #Jewish, you now know that your continued presence in #progressive spaces is contingent on a permission that can be revoked at any moment by whoever has the largest crowd and the loudest voice. The only guaranteed safe move is to stay home.

The lesson was proof of concept: this is what works. A coordinated mob, a phone camera, and the willingness to make physical contact is all it takes to drive a Jewish #electedofficial out of a public space at dusk. The technology of exclusion is now documented, tested, and available for replication.

Teaching #exemplaryintimidation means you don’t need to threaten every #Jew in #SanFrancisco. You just need to target the most visible #gay Jewish elected official in the city: you surround him, you mob him, you film the humiliation and the #bystandereffect, and then you broadcast it on #socialmedia as a trophy."

https://thevoicesf.org/friday-nights-new-york-city-style-menacing-in-dolores-park/

That this commentary was in solidarity with Nerdeen Kiswani's is some kind of magical logic.

"A #socialmedia post by popular #columnist and former #attorney #JillFilipovic criticizing an #Orthodox #Jewish religious practice sparked a heated #online debate this week, drawing more than 1 million views and thousands of comments, many defending the custom."

https://vinnews.com/2026/06/30/columnists-post-on-orthodox-jewish-men-avoiding-handshakes-with-women-sparks-fierce-online-debate/

Faced With Age Verification Failure, Australia Doubles Fines for Social Media

Age verification was always an impossible to comply with law, but Australia is doubling fines on social media for failing to do the impossible.

https://www.freezenet.ca/faced-with-age-verification-failure-australia-doubles-fines-for-social-media/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #fine #legislation #SocialMedia

"A survivor of the #BondiBeach terror attack has said he received "an influx of hate, of abuse, of vilification, of #AI manipulation" after the #shooting in December.

#US-based #socialmedia platform #Gab has been "hostile" in its engagement with #Australia's #antisemitism #royalcommission, a counsel assisting says.

The third hearing block of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will focus on the spread of #hatespeech #online and in traditional media sources."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-29/bondi-antisemitism-royal-commission-social-media-hate/106853944

Australia recently became the first country to pass legislation banning under-16 children from social media. Now the government plans to strengthen the law, citing evidence that the ban hasn’t worked since it went into effect last December. Other countries such as Britain, Canada, and Brazil are following Australia’s lead in introducing similar restrictions. Read more from @AssociatedPress:

https://flip.it/XMyyn7

#Tech #Australia #SocialMedia

"A woman who was #elected on Tuesday to a leadership position in the influential #Brooklyn #DemocraticParty has apologized for a #socialmedia post from last year that amplified #antisemitic comments and #conspiracytheories.

#CarmellaCharrington, whose #candidacy was supported by #democraticsocialist lawmakers, recirculated a video that highlighted a series of pamphlets in a newspaper owned by #HenryFord, the industrialist who founded #Ford Motor Company, that later became a book in the 1920s. The book highlighted well-worn conspiracy theories that #Jews controlled business and the media, and it blamed them for many of the country’s problems.

“The only way to change is understanding the truth!” Ms. #Charrington wrote in her post, which was first reported by #Jewish Insider.

Reached by telephone on Friday, Ms. Charrington said she was not antisemitic[...]"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/nyregion/charrington-ford-jews-antisemitic-apology.html

There was a terrible event in #WWII in #Saipan where as American troops advanced the Japanese civilians committed mass suicide. They believed due to #propaganda that the Americans would be monstruously cruel

Here we see a similar sentiment as #Ukraine captures #Russia's troops

Traditional #media and #socialMedia lies lead to this

Pointless #war and stupid #projection of one's own malice

It's why the lies we see can't just be dismissed. They are rat poison. They must be fought

#UkraineWar