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Davey Alba
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@technology reporter covering Google and big tech / daveyalba.com / Bluesky profile: bsky.app/profile/davey.…
- I have a dummy account that follows one Twitter account -- @taylorswift13. Unprompted, I started getting notifications from that account every time Andrew Tate tweets. I don't understand what's going on with Twitter's algorithm, to be honest.
- NEW: Spent the day immersed in viral falsehoods about the Israel-Hamas conflict that spread over the weekend and into Monday. Here's what we're bringing back from the misinformation trenches. (gift link) w/ @dzuidijk bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- don't know what to say. vile accusations without basis have consequencesTwitter's former head of trust and safety has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon Musk's campaign of criticism against him, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. cnn.it/3Wb4BQl
- Summing the reactions of ex-Twitter workers to "The Twitter Files Pt 2" Ex-employees seemingly saying three main things: 1) This has long been public; 2) The platform features called out are innocuous; 3) The new T&S head handed everything over, making this little more than PR
- NEW: We analyzed hundreds of posts with misinformation about the Israel-Gaza conflict carrying Community Notes. We found that X has transformed from a flawed but policy-driven system to a free-for-all where falsehoods are prominently served up to users
- you guys. mastodon is FINE, or pretty good even. some starter tips (most of these c/o @mmasnick): 1. movetodon.org is the easiest tool so far to find and follow all your friends from Twitter who are on Mastodon 2. pinafore.social lets you pin the main timeline
- NEW: We documented an experiment run by @accountabletech that shows, tangibly, that Elon Musk's popular Twitter polls can be gamed by bot-for-hire manipulation services originating in Russia, India and Turkey
- NEW: Ella Irwin, Twitter’s current head of trust and safety, has become the chief executor of Musk’s whims—even when it goes against established protocols for social media content work that Twitter and its peers have refined for the past decade.
- im exhausted by this meticulous account of Elon's Twitter by @KurtWagner8 @sarahfrier @BradStone, charted by the day. but—excuse my bias—it's one of the smartest & most engaging versions of the story i've followed so closely from the start that's out there
- Replying to @daveyalbaGoogle asked ~80k employees to "dogfood" and test generative AI tools like Bard. Some employees concluded: Bard was "a pathological liar," "cringe-worthy" and gave dangerous advice, according to internal messages we reviewed. Google launched Bard anyway. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
- Replying to @daveyalbaAccording to researcher @rothschildmd, Twitter is failing spectacularly in this moment. “It's now almost impossible to tell what's a fact, what's a rumor, what's a conspiracy theory, and what's trolling." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- First (!) @BW cover: Investigators are increasingly using warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and can end up looking through the user data of people who had nothing to do with a crime. With @byJuliaLove bloomberg.com/news/features/…
