Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate
Ze zijn in silicon valley toch echt wel de prioriteit-pedalen kwijt: Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped button and that it would be getting rid of it “soon”.
The world is a terrible place right now, and that’s largely because it is what we make it.
Wil Wheaton (ja, die van TV): I see this in the online space all the time now: mobs of people, acting in bad faith, can make people they don’t know and will likely never meet miserable, or even try to ruin their lives and careers (look at what they did to James Gunn). And those mobs’ […]
Good riddance, Twitter
Thomas Fuchs: Fuck you Jack Dorsey. Fuck you, all you douchebros and douchesisters running Twitter. You’re abusers. You ceaselessly optimize Twitter for the most possible abuse of its users to drive “engagement” and keep those eyes on the timelines with a never ending barrage of abusive crap. I feel this more and more every day. […]
Inside Twitter’s Struggle Over What Gets Banned
The New York Times mocht langsgaan bij een vergadering van Twitter… For about an hour, the group tried to get a handle on what constituted dehumanizing speech. At one point, Mr. Dorsey wondered if there was a technology solution. There was no agreement on an answer.
Twitter and Shadow Banning
MJ Tsai: I guess I have no way of knowing whether any tweets have been hidden from me by Twitter’s ranking algorithm. As far as I know, no one I follow has complained about being censored. But I would prefer to just always see everything. If someone I follow is posting bad stuff, I want […]