Lessons on posting falsehoods from the imaginary Ferrari dealership that dissed Steph Curry’s mother

Lessons on posting falsehoods from the imaginary Ferrari dealership that dissed Steph Curry’s mother

A LinkedIn connection of mine recently reposted a story about Sonya Curry, the mother of the extremely talented NBA player Steph Curry. I clicked through to the original post, which had been posted by a lawyer who runs a foundation and is a visiting fellow at a major university — let’s call her “Mary” (not…

Did 1.5 billion people rush to get in on Trump’s “Truth Social?”

Did 1.5 billion people rush to get in on Trump’s “Truth Social?”

According to the Washington Examiner: By Tuesday morning, 1.5 billion people had viewed the app in the iPhone App Store, with nearly 400,000 people receiving notices they were placed on a waitlist upon trying to sign up. Could this be true? When it comes to numbers, be skeptical It pays to understand the world that numbers…

Facebook is secretly rating your trustworthiness. Excellent!
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Facebook is secretly rating your trustworthiness. Excellent!

According to the Washington Post, Facebook is rating your trustworthiness on a zero-to-one scale. Not only that, they won’t tell you how they rate people. Here’s why that’s a necessary first step in squashing the spread of fake news. First, let’s get this out of the way. Facebook is biased. All social media and search…

Facebook’s rationale for booting Alex Jones and InfoWars: you can lie, but you can’t be hateful
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Facebook’s rationale for booting Alex Jones and InfoWars: you can lie, but you can’t be hateful

Facebook has joined Apple, Youtube, and Disqus in banning Alex Jones and yanking his InfoWars pages. Jones and his supporters are livid, claiming free speech violations, while liberals are wondering what took so long. The challenge here is that lying on Facebook is perfectly fine; only “hate speech” will get you banned. Let’s take a…