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15 years ago, 5 friends and I drunkenly painted a crosswalk on a dangerous street in our College Town. Shockingly, people actually used it and the city installed a legitimate crosswalk there soon after. Now it's in a national publication
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @CityLab
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Let's steelman @elonmusk's concern about political influence on the content decisions of major platforms. and come up with practical steps Musk could take to set a new standard:
1) Commit to releasing all communications by global political actors related to content moderation.
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1. Some thoughts on the Twitter thread put out by @elonmusk and @mtaibbi. My purpose here isn't to promote or rebut, but evaluate and consider. I will try my best to be fair-minded.
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It's hard to come up with a generalized rule banning stories based on illegal material, but banning leaked sexual material of celebrities/notable figures is something social media companies have lots of experience with, they're on firm ground there
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Andrew Prokop @awprokop
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Obviously there’s an element of gotcha to this but it’s honestly a really big deal that the owner of an important communications platform also runs a car manufacturing company that depends on the goodwill of the PRC leadership. https://t.co/9jYEdhSOib
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Tommy Vietor @TVietor08
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One reason media was cautious about the Hunter docs is: they were being given to conservative journos predisposed to find what Trump’s team wanted rather than people who might take a more skeptical eye.
In unrelated news, Musk is giving Twitter docs to Taibbi and Bari Weiss…
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Of course if a more skeptical journalist was given the docs they probably would not have ominously tweeted this out without checking and finding out these “handled” tweets were sexual material about Hunter Biden
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Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi