Social Media is for the Birds #nobodycares

[Khamon]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Wesleytron]

I've never checked out Discord, but I feel like that video is setting me up for a huge disappointment.

 

[Free]

 

[bubblesort]

This is great! Youtube is banning sky news for a week due to pandemic misinformation.

Politically, though? I don't know what to make of it. Google is definitely trying to make a statement, but that's a pretty strong statement. Sky News is Rupert Murdoch. Is google tangling with him directly? Biden's press secretary has said they are helping to direct anti-misinformation activity on social media. Maybe Biden is on bad terms with Murdoch? That's probably reaching.

I hope this is just the first move in a bigger anti-disinformation campaign. They meed to start hitting Fox, and others.

Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation

Digital giant issues strike after channel posted videos denying the existence of disease and encouraging people to use discredited medication

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

 

[Fionalein]

what a strange way to say "the umptienth reincarnation of ICQ"...

 

[Free]

IRC! IRC! IRC!

 

[Free]

Thought about putting this in the Food section, but nah - this is pure TikTok.

TikTokers are eating frozen honey and getting diarrhea

Experts back up common sense by warning against the #frozenhoney challenge

www.avclub.com

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

Twitter’s photo-cropping algorithm prefers young, beautiful, and light-skinned faces

Social biases become AI biases

www.theverge.com

Twitter has announced the results of an open competition to find algorithmic bias in its photo-cropping system. The company disabled automatic photo-cropping in March after experiments by Twitter users last year suggested it favored white faces over Black faces. It then launched an algorithmic bug bounty to try and analyze the problem more closely.

The competition has confirmed these earlier findings. The top-placed entry showed that Twitter’s cropping algorithm favors faces that are “slim, young, of light or warm skin color and smooth skin texture, and with stereotypically feminine facial traits.” The second and third-placed entries showed that the system was biased against people with white or grey hair, suggesting age discrimination, and favors English over Arabic script in images.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

(This could have also gone in the Web/App Development section...)

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[bubblesort]

Danny Devito lost his blue check mark for supporting the Nabisco strike. They claim it's because his profile was incomplete, but that's clearly bullshit. Blue checks aren't about verifying identities. It's about largesse. The blue check is how the platform puts their thumb on the scales to give political power to people they like. So it's obvious that Twitter is anti-union. Dorsey probably owns Nabisco stock or something.

Danny DeVito Abruptly Loses Twitter Verification After Tweeting Support For Nabisco Strike [Update] - IGN

Update: Twitter says Danny DeVito's Twitter verification was not removed because of his tweet about a Nabisco Strike, but because his account information was incomplete.

www.ign.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds

New research indicates the internet doesn't make people act like jerks, but it sure gives the jerks a big megaphone.

gizmodo.com

 

[Free]

Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds

New research indicates the internet doesn't make people act like jerks, but it sure gives the jerks a big megaphone.

gizmodo.com

 

[bubblesort]

I hate things like this. This thread is on the front page of reddit almost every day, with a slightly different title. "Wihout telling me where you live, where do you live?" "Without telling me what your job is, what is your job?" This one is "Using only food, where do you live?"

These are clearly attempts by some big data asshole to learn more ways to take data that is not legally categorized as personally identifying information, and turn that into personally identifying information anyway.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Facebook is down (omg!)