Marloes de Koning

@marloesdekoning.eurosky.social

Ik ben journalist bij NRC

An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...

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Having slept on it, I am far more troubled by this settlement. The government should not be able to use its power to bully a defendant into silencing lawful third party speech. That's what the govt did to bookstores in Bantam Books. The Court held that it violated publishers' 1st Amendment rights.

Daphne Keller@daphnek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This thread has my scattered takes on the Meta settlement agreement, at first skim. It covers a lot of the big pieces, despite beginning with a more tangential interest of mine about the MPA (nee MPAA). I think a settlement like this should be unconstitutional. But it's a weird new legal Q.

Meta has been advocating for it for a long time because they know how accurate and secure age verification isn't and desperately want the error rate to be someone else's problem so they stop being the scapegoat

A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 4mo ago

We have now joined W, a new European social media network. We’re present on 15+ platforms, and are especially happy to join one based in Europe and with the ambition to foster open and safer online conversations. Keep the conversation going - whether from W, Bluesky or other compatible apps.

A promotional graphic with a deep purple background, inviting viewers to "Connect with us on" a platform symbolized by a large stylized letter "W." 

 

The "W" has a 3D effect, with the left half in white and the right half in a light mint green. Five large, yellow five-pointed stars curve along the top, right, and bottom edges, reminiscent of the European Union flag. In the bottom right corner, there is a small, white institutional logo representing the European Commission.

This one point is proving remarkably challenging to get across: ALGORITHMIC FEEDS ARE EDITORIAL You wouldn't expect to do well pitching your ideas to a newspaper or TV that hates you. Why expect anything better from X or Insta, which are openly authoritarian media?

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 4mo ago

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.