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The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled

by pulisse on 6/13/24, 11:30 PM with 14 comments

• by jauntywundrkind on 6/14/24, 12:04 AM

  Semi related, one of the key things Musk is doing by eliminating Twitter likes is removing a core ability to monitor platform manipulation. It's wild what an intensely dark dark forest Twitter has been turned into.

  Really sad to see such an interesting noble effort to figure out what all is happening in this chaotic age dismantled by the powers that be. There seems like so many forces pushing to make social media chaotic & tolerant to truly hostile forces.

• by ffhhj on 6/14/24, 12:31 AM

  > And in an actual weaponization of government, Jordan’s committee has included students — both undergraduates and graduates — in its subpoena requests, publishing their names and putting them at risk of threats or worse.

  1984 at work.

• by r721 on 6/13/24, 11:43 PM

  Yeah, it seems like anti-anti-disinformation efforts are becoming one of focuses of Republicans.

  "One shouldn't research our methods of lying at scale".

• by pseudo0 on 6/14/24, 2:02 AM

  > Two of SIO’s major initiatives — the peer-reviewed Journal of Online Trust and Safety and its Trust and Safety Research Conference — will also continue. (The journal is funded through a separate grant from the Omidyar Network.)

  "Trust and safety" - brought to you by a left-wing activist billionaire megadonor.