@internetarchive @fight I signed. But I see the possibility to share it via #Facebook, #Linkedin, #X (former #Twitter) etc., but not via #Fediverse: #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey etc.

Elon #Musk tries again to escape #FTC audits of #X data handling

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/elon-musk-tries-again-to-escape-ftc-audits-of-x-data-handling/

#Twitter #privacy

The New York Stock Exchange recently

#SpaceX #Musk #Grok #Twitter

Alt...

someone has made multiple projections of the phrase "when you buy spacex you buy child porn" onto the NY Stock Exchange building

Are you still on Elon Musk’s X?

If the answer is yes, ask yourself why.

Are you really okay with a billionaire meddling in your national politics manufacturing outrage and monetising rage?

X has become nothing more than an open sewer and pretending otherwise is self deception.

#twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/04/keir-starmer-elon-musk-division-henry-nowak

#xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged #Grok #Deepfake Nudes Victims of #Anonymity

https://www.wired.com/story/xai-asks-court-to-strip-alleged-grok-deepfake-nudes-victims-of-anonymity/

#privacy #nsfw #AI #Twitter #X

May I point out to Investors that the rocket you just saw successfully take off but only partially come back down to Earth was supposed to be on it's way to Mars by now.......

....and that Twitter was going to become 'the everything app' before he gave up on that idea and turned it into a depravity machine.

#ElonMusk #SpaceXIPO #SpaceX #Starship #Twitter #Musk #XAI

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116602044141539323

Was it Maye or Elon posting as his mother, as he has been proven to do?

#ElonMusk #Musk #MayeMusk #USElection #SocialMedia #Twitter

Collateral Damage: #Grok #AI and the Human Cost of Generative AI

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5770/collateral-damage-grok-ai-and-human-cost-generative-ai

#privacy #deepfake #Twitter

Auch bei Twitter werden Nutzer*innen Daten zum Training von KI verwendet.....

Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect 09/29/23, giving them the right to use your posts & all of your data to train musk's "AI."

view-source:https://twitter.com/en/privacy

#Data #KI #AI #Musk #Twitter #Antireport #Privacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_hmtuAPTY

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Did the Algorithm Change Your Decisions? | How Your Feed Was Engineered

Right now, somewhere on the internet, a video is being uploaded.

Within seconds, a system that no one elected, no one audits, and no one fully understands decides whether anyone else will ever see it.

Sometimes, it decides no one should.

And that’s the end of it.

In this episode of Plain Meaning, we examine how the modern internet quietly transformed from a system designed to deliver information… into one that decides what information exists for you at all.

It didn’t happen all at once.

It happened step by step.

Feed by feed.

Platform by platform.

Until nearly everything you see online is filtered through a machine making decisions on your behalf.

We trace how:

• Social media moved from profile pages to infinite feeds
• Facebook’s News Feed shifted from chronological to algorithmic control
• Advertising—not user experience—drove the need to control timing and visibility
• “EdgeRank” introduced the first large-scale automated editorial system
• By 2016, every major platform—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube—had adopted algorithmic feeds
• Recommendation systems replaced direct navigation across the entire internet

But this isn’t just a story about technology.

It’s a story about incentives.

Because once platforms controlled what you saw, they didn’t just control engagement.

They controlled attention.

And once attention became the product, the system began optimizing for something far more powerful than clicks.

We examine what happened next:

• How foreign influence operations exploited algorithmic feeds during the 2016 election
• The role of Cambridge Analytica and its parent Strategic Communication Laboratories in psychological targeting
• The scale and strategy of Russia’s Internet Research Agency
• How fake local news accounts built trust before deploying disinformation
• Why most influence content wasn’t political—but divisive
• How algorithms amplified all of it without distinction

And then we go further.

Because 2016 wasn’t the end of the story.

It was the beginning.

We look at how:

• Algorithmic systems shape not just what you see—but how you think
• Platforms reward emotional, extreme, and addictive content
• Foreign-owned platforms introduce new geopolitical risks
• Systems like ByteDance’s TikTok operate differently across countries
• The same algorithmic architecture can produce completely different realities depending on its objectives

This episode is not about one platform.

It’s not about one political party.

And it’s not about one country.

It’s about the system itself.

Because the algorithm isn’t just recommending content.

It’s acting as an editor.

And most of the time, you don’t even realize it’s there.

By the end of this video, the next time you open a social media app, you’ll understand:

Why your attention isn’t fully yours.

Why the world you see isn’t necessarily the world that exists.

And how to recognize when a machine—not you—is deciding what matters.

#Algorithm #SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #YouTube #Facebook #Instagram #NewsFeed #TikTok #Twitter

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I tested for long, and I found just two scripts that are able to nuke your Twitter account from everything for good, without need of APIs (just request your data archive):

- Twitter Delete Script: https://github.com/MadeXel/Tweet-Delete-Script.V1/blob/main/asahi-tweet-dm-delete.script.js

- TweetXter: https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer/blob/main/tweetXer.js

Keep in mind, if you have a lot of stuff, you have need to do repeated runs and ask the archive multiple times, because that platform is technically a mess that isn't able to find your data in a single query.

#twitter #twittermigration

The Twitter Bitcoin scam

https://negativepid.blog/the-twitter-bitcoin-scam/

#BarackObama #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #BillGates #Apple #twitter #bitcoin #crypto #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

I find #X / #Twitter interesting and I am very pro-#FreeSpeech, but... there's something terribly wrong when a site’s moderators turn down a report on a post referring to “the JQ" approvingly, saying it doesn't qualify as hateful content. A term referring to killing millions of people is... not hateful? Do better X.

#Antisemitism #Jews #Holocaust

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116312883173526888

There we go!

I feel like i keep reposting this every week or so..

Bit by bit #Bsky is sliding towards just another clone of #Twitter and #Facebook

Actions speak louder then words

The #Fediverse remains the only true open source, self-hosted world wide community driven by the people

Going #AI (#LLM) is a CHOICE, they again chose wrong

Not sure we've ever said womp womp before, but if ever a story deserved it... A U.S. judge has tossed Elon Musk's X lawsuit against advertisers who he claimed illegally boycotted his platform. Here's @BBCNews with more.

https://flip.it/ukdkNz

#Twitter #ElonMusk #USLaw #Advertising

We're writing this in the fediverse so we're guessing most of you don't need this reminder from @parismarx, but just in case, here are all the reasons you should stop posting on Twitter.

https://flip.it/YmTcJQ

#SocialMedia #Technology #Tech #Twitter

@impactology

*#SocialMedia and the #Fediverse*

(1/n)

"...Different people disagree. Different contexts clash. Feedback exposes gaps..."

Sigh; this is exactly what I miss not having the old #Twitter anymore.

I have contacts here on different continents, in different walks of life and stages if life, but we have to admit that--in contrast to the old Twitter--we live in a (luckily) "sanitized #DMZ" 1): those with opposing #AlternativeFacts-indoctrinated,..

1) DMZ = Demilitarized Zone

RE: https://masto.es/@aperalesf/116256850349827312

A new Twitter/Facebook feed creator appeared. Those services while very useful tend to be short lived. The content silos dislike crawling. For the moment you can get public Twitter feeds again.

#rss #twitter

#Warren presses #Pentagon over decision to grant #xAI access to classified networks

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/warren-presses-pentagon-over-decision-to-grant-xai-access-to-classified-networks/

#AI #Twitter #X #Musk #ElonMusk #cybersecurity #privacy #politics

@stefan

#bluesky is going the way of #twitter

with new leadership due to financial pressure, they are going to cave and ruin some aspect of it

my unfounded speculation is some #crypto tie-in shit, since it's owned and run by #cryptobros

also as @mastodonmigration noted, it's interesting timing with the #midterms coming up

enjoy bluesky folks!

but its days are numbered

@mastodonmigration @ikuturso

the play is easy

#bluesky genuinely likes their audience

but.. #finances are finances

the goons who control the purse strings lick their chops with very goon-based #crypto dreams, replace the leadership, and then fucking ruin it

just like #twitter

just like traditional #media ( #WaPo, #nytimes, etc)

so a warning for all:

enjoy bluesky

but its days are numbered

it will become a cesspool #socialMedia like twitter eventually

with certainty

These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and #surveillance #BigTech

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/these-alternatives-to-popular-apps-can-help-reclaim-your-online-life-from-billionaires-and-surveillance/

#Data #Privacy #Capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #twitter #Musk #Bluesky #Meta #instagram #antireport

X's documentation explicitly states:

"Direct messages are not protected against hacking or unauthorised access."

If messages aren't protected against hacking, they're not encrypted properly.

This is encryption theatre, not encryption.

Words matter in security.

#Encryption #Cybersecurity #Twitter #Privacy

What X actually has:

"Encryption in transit and at rest"

Translation:
✅ Encrypted traveling to X's servers
✅ Encrypted sitting on X's servers
❌ X holds the decryption keys
❌ X can read everything

That's not end-to-end encryption. That's just locked with X holding the key.

#Encryption #E2EE #Twitter #Privacy

The biopolitical surveillance regime - friendly sponsered by Twitter's official partners

U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
"Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show.
Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, alerted a federal law enforcement agency to pro-abortion protests and rallies in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request."

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/

#tracking #Profiling #surveillance #criminalisation #USA #antireport #abortion #Twitter #Dataminr

I know this is going to be a hard lesson for people on the #Fediverse to learn, but here we go:

NOT EVERYONE ON THE FUCKING PLANET KNOWS HOW TO DO THE THINGS WE DO!

While I’ll take #ActivityPub over #Bluesky, #Threads, and #Twitter, some of y’all make it so difficult to just exist in a space without having to “well, actually” every fucking thing!

Understand that not everyone has all the answers (you sure as shit don’t) and treat people with some fucking grace and respect!

For fuck’s sake!

@boscoandpeck
Copy that! I have the same experience.

Some people I was able to find in the #fediverse, a significant number of people I lost track of, found new interesting accounts to follow and a segnificant number of new accounts I follow are surprisingly high quality. I might even say that posts are better, more balanced and more in-depth than what I was used to on #twitter. The #algorithms on a lot of platforms tend to push clickbait and don't do quality posts justice.

@OpenMediaOrg

this may be the first thing i've ever posted where i got significantly more engagement on the #fediverse than on the hellsite. feels like the hellsite might be throttling discussion of the #EpsteinFiles somewhat.

#uspol #epstein #twitter #elonmusk #elon #X

@lauren

Why is the #BBC @BBCRadio4 still tied to an online platform that promotes paedophilia and sexual exploitation ?

#twitter #X #Grok #Xitter #musk #elonmusk

@EUCommission #Twitter 👉 #Xitter 🚽, so twits still tweeting are 💩s.

#DoNotCollaborateWithFascists.

@EUCommission

That's curiously complicated wording, when you can just say "child sexual abuse material" (c.f. #ChatControl).

Please, folks: just leave X, and as you do so, use the powers the Commission has to raze it to the ground.

#X #Twitter #Grok

X deactivates @EUCommission ad account after the company was fined €120M - https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/x-deactivates-european-commissions-ad-account-after-the-company-was-fined-e120m/ so much for freedom of speech, musk. EU should close down all its #twitter accounts now

A team at three U.S. universities developed an AI-powered browser extension that modifies how content appears on X and then tested it on 1,200 participants in the run up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The tool scans posts for anti-democratic and negative partisan views (such as calling for violence towards supporters of an opposing party) and then re-orders the posts so polarizing content is shown either more or less to participants. The scientists found that attitudes towards the opposing party changed on average by two points, and that the participants who saw less hostile content reported feeling less angry and sad while using X. The extension did not need the participation of X and, the team behind it noted, could be a way of reranking social media posts "without platform collaboration." Here's more from @euronews.

https://flip.it/hD.OWw

#USNews #USPolitics #Technology #Twitter #X #SocialMedia

‘The algorithm hates me,’ my latest from #Overmorrow.

An algorithmic timeline is NOT part of this balanced breakfast.

https://overmorrow.tech/the-algorithm-hates-me/
#twitter #mastodon #tech #newsletter

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111050422873237025

what with #EpsteinFiles on our minds, let me repeat myself from 2020:

❝ QAnon was created by Trump’s fascists to take attention away from the Anons working on Opeation Death Eaters and the Jeffrey Epstein case.

QAnon is a new form of COINTELPRO ❞

#fascism #twitter #propaganda