Episode 56: The Age of the Moderator
02/05/21 • 41 min
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk Twitter's new Birdwatch experiment, Signal's resistance to moderation, and Redditors' impact on the stock market.
Show notes:
[02:06]: Twitter outsourcing content moderation with expirimental Birdwatch feature.
[13:32]: Signal's founder has pushed back against internal efforts to have some sort of mechanism to prevent misuse of the platform.
[26:25]: Redditors take on hedge funds and the stock market with Game Stop and others. Robinhood and Discord respond.
Reality 2.0 around the web:
Site/Blog/Newsletter
FaceBook
Twitter
YouTube
Mastodon
Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.
Links:
- Twitter introduces 'Birdwatch' to fight misinformation | Engadget — “Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context,” Twitter writes in a blog post. “We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads, adding context that people trust and find valuable.”
- Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil - The Verge — Employees worry that, should Signal fail to build policies and enforcement mechanisms to identify and remove bad actors, the fallout could bring more negative attention to encryption technologies from regulators at a time when their existence is threatened around the world.
- The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook - WSJ — Deciding what does and doesn’t belong online is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the technology world—and perhaps the most grueling. The equivalent of 65 years of video are uploaded to YouTube each day. Facebook receives more than a million user reports of potentially objectionable content a day.
- Mind Your Own Business! - YouTube — Gladys Kravitz.
- Amazon.com: Shephard's Drone: A Novel (9780960051908): Frischmann, Brett: Books
- Amazon.com: The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World (9781984897787): Hyde, Lewis: Books
- Amazon.com: COMMON AS AIR (9780374532796): Hyde, Lewis: Books
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Zuboff, Shoshana: 9781610395694: Amazon.com: Books
- Opinion | Facebook and the Surveillance Society: Th...
Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk Twitter's new Birdwatch experiment, Signal's resistance to moderation, and Redditors' impact on the stock market.
Show notes:
[02:06]: Twitter outsourcing content moderation with expirimental Birdwatch feature.
[13:32]: Signal's founder has pushed back against internal efforts to have some sort of mechanism to prevent misuse of the platform.
[26:25]: Redditors take on hedge funds and the stock market with Game Stop and others. Robinhood and Discord respond.
Reality 2.0 around the web:
Site/Blog/Newsletter
FaceBook
Twitter
YouTube
Mastodon
Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.
Links:
- Twitter introduces 'Birdwatch' to fight misinformation | Engadget — “Birdwatch allows people to identify information in Tweets they believe is misleading and write notes that provide informative context,” Twitter writes in a blog post. “We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads, adding context that people trust and find valuable.”
- Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil - The Verge — Employees worry that, should Signal fail to build policies and enforcement mechanisms to identify and remove bad actors, the fallout could bring more negative attention to encryption technologies from regulators at a time when their existence is threatened around the world.
- The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook - WSJ — Deciding what does and doesn’t belong online is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the technology world—and perhaps the most grueling. The equivalent of 65 years of video are uploaded to YouTube each day. Facebook receives more than a million user reports of potentially objectionable content a day.
- Mind Your Own Business! - YouTube — Gladys Kravitz.
- Amazon.com: Shephard's Drone: A Novel (9780960051908): Frischmann, Brett: Books
- Amazon.com: The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World (9781984897787): Hyde, Lewis: Books
- Amazon.com: COMMON AS AIR (9780374532796): Hyde, Lewis: Books
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Zuboff, Shoshana: 9781610395694: Amazon.com: Books
- Opinion | Facebook and the Surveillance Society: Th...
Previous Episode
Episode 55: Radio Broadcasting
Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dean Landsman and Paul Walker about radio broadcasting, including long distance coverage.
Reality 2.0 around the web:
Site/Blog/Newsletter
FaceBook
Twitter
YouTube
Mastodon
Special Guests: Dean Landsman and Petros Koutoupis.
Links:
- :: Dean Landsman :: Landsman Communications Group ::
- Doc Searls on Twitter: "Interesting to see my uncredited photo of Boston’s Deer Island, @creative commons licensed only to require attribution, I suppose found by @msnbc on @Wikipedia, on the @maddow show. You’re welcome. :-) https://t.co/N6BiNNHbiN" / Twitter — Interesting to see my uncredited photo of Boston’s Deer Island, @creative commons licensed only to require attribution, I suppose found by @msnbc on @Wikipedia , on the @maddow show. You’re welcome. :-)
- KROY — This website was developed and is maintained by a group of former staff members and pays tribute to the memories of those and other eras in KROY’s storied history. We’re glad you stopped by this virtual “KROY window.” Stay awhile and have a look around.
Next Episode
Episode 57: You Look Familiar, Did I See You on the Internet?
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk facial recognition AI using our photos for training, and how we collectively negotiate our own privacy online.
Reality 2.0 around the web:
Site/Blog/Newsletter
FaceBook
Twitter
YouTube
Mastodon
Links:
- This new tool can tell you if your online photos are helping train facial recognition systems - CNN — Exposing.ai, unveiled in January, lets you know whether photos you've posted to image-sharing site Flickr have been used to advance this controversial application of artificial intelligence by allowing you to search more than 3.6 million photos in six facial-recognition image datasets.
- Check if your photos were used in AI surveillance research projects — Check if your Flickr photos were used to build face recognition
- Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Called Illegal in Canada - The New York Times — Canadian authorities declared that the company needed citizens’ consent to use their biometric information, and told the firm to delete facial images from its database.
- This 'Anonymizer' Tool Replaces Your Face With a Fake to Trick Facial Recognition | Debugger — Try the Anonymizer tool to create a fake face that looks like you
- Doc Searls Weblog · About face — We know more than we can tell.
- Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network ONN - YouTube
- Sun on Privacy: 'Get Over It' | WIRED — "You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology. "Get over it."
- The Andromeda Strain - MichaelCrichton.com
- A Vast Web of Vengeance - The New York Times — Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.
- Canadian Woman Accused of Defaming Dozens Online Is Arrested in Toronto - The New York Times — Nadire Atas, a Canadian woman who wrote thousands of online posts defaming her perceived enemies, was arrested on Tuesday by the police in Toronto. She was charged with crimes including harassment and libel, a Toronto police spokeswoman said.
- CORE Response: Community Organized Relief Effort — Together, we save lives.
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