A time to rest, reflect and say thank you
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A time to rest, reflect and say thank you
It’s been a crazy few weeks that people will spend years analyzing. Make sure to take care of yourself.
So much has happened in the last three weeks. Everyone I know - including myself - is pretty exhausted. Just look at how many links to stories and things to read that I have below.
Thus, I decided I’m not going to stress myself out this week trying to make sense of any of it. Instead, I’m going to give myself a break to go put up holiday decorations and work my way through some of this reading. I encourage you to do the same.
For those of you looking for jobs and/or impacted by the layoffs, I’ve put more links than usual in the jobs section along with some resources people have set up to help those affected. I’ll try to make this more robust going forward.
As we go into Thanksgiving, however, I do want to say thank you. Every week I hear from some of you about how much you like this newsletter. That means so much to me and I really enjoy putting it together. I am starting to plan out what I’d like to do here in 2023 so if you have any ideas of what you’d like to see please let me know! I’ll probably do a survey in the coming weeks to try to get more of a sense of what you all might like.
Take care of yourselves and Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the states.
What I’m Reading
Tech Crunch: TikTok begins testing an early version of its platform research API
The Problem with Jon Stewart: Hillary Clinton & Condoleezza Rice on America’s Global Role
New York Times: Opinion | What’s Twitter’s Future? The Former Head of Trust And Safety Weighs In
Washington Post: Democrats fear Musk may retaliate against Twitter researchers
Gizmodo: End of an Era: Facebook Takes Sexuality, Religion, Address, and Politics Off of Your Profile.
WSJ: The Midterms Revealed the Real Challenges Facing Our Elections
Bloomberg: Meta Confronts an Apple-Sized Hole in Its Once-Mighty Advertising Business
AP: Facebook still banning Trump — for now — despite campaign
Bloomberg: TikTok CEO Argues Content Moderation Vital as Twitter Cuts Staff
Guardian: UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse
Bloomberg: TikTok CEO Says ‘Project Texas’ to Allay US Security Concern
Latin America Daily Briefing: Mexicans protest INE reform
CNN: Facebook fact-checkers will stop checking Trump after presidential bid announcement
New York Times: TikTok Builds Itself Into an Ads Juggernaut
Technology Review: Twitter's potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history
Washington Post: Fake Eli Lilly account may cost Twitter millions
NPR: Turnout among young voters was the second highest for a midterm in past 30 years
Spectator: The best way to stop Russian trolls is to ignore them
MarketWatch: Exclusive: How TikTok scrutinizes and scores the creators on its shopping platform
Technology Review: Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
The Diplomat: Vietnam Introduces 24-Hour Take-Down Requirement for Social Media Platforms
New York Times: Elon Musk’s Twitter Did Not Perform at Its Best on Election Day
Washington Post: Opinion | Marco Rubio, Mike Gallagher: Ban TikTok in America
New York Times: The World’s Democracies Ask: Why Can’t America Fix Itself?
New York Times: Voter Fraud Claims Are Not as Prominent as in 2020
The Information: As Meta and Twitter Lay Off Thousands in Bay Area, TikTok Plans to Double Staff
Think Tanks/Academia/Other
Brandon Silverman: Pulled together an informal document that is meant to be a kind of one-stop shop for all the technical language that has been adopted or meaningfully proposed to date around data sharing
President Obama: My Remarks at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum
President Bush: The Struggle for Freedom: A Conversation with President George W. Bush and David J. Kramer
DFR Lab: Election fraud narratives surge on Brazilian Twitter following Bolsonaro defeat
DFR Lab: How inauthentic Facebook accounts targeted detained Moroccan journalists
Journal of Society and Media: The Usage of Social Media and Political Branding of Public Official during Covid-19
Civic Shout: Digital Election Campaigns Survey
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Peters Presses Social Media Companies on Efforts to Monitor and Remove Violent Extremist Content
Alliance of Democracies: TCEI Web Talk: U.S. Midterms '22 - The battle for the "true" integrity of the election
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Networked Trust & the Future of Media
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Institutions, Experts & the Loss of Trust
European Council: Declaration on digital rights and principles: EU values and citizens at the centre of digital transformation - Consilium
Ofcom: Regulators collaborate through new global network to counter online harm
Trust in Tech Podcast: Global Threat Analysis with Zara Perumal
Yale Law School: ISP Launches Majority World Initiative to Support Social Media Scholarship
Social Science & Medicine: Promoting blood donation through social media: Evidence from Brazil, India and the USA
Coalition for Independent Technology Research: Manifesto: The Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Institute for Strategic Dialogue: Beam: Defending Information
FOSI: Making Sense of Age Assurance: Enabling Safer Online Experiences
DFR Lab: China spearheads social media campaign to attack civil society in Zimbabwe
Carnegie Endowment: The Problem With Defining “Disinformation”
NDI: Countering Illiberal Influences through Open Government
Jobs
European Commission: Job opportunity: European Commission is hiring experts to enforce the Digital Services Act
No Labels: Sr. Fundraiser
Arnold Ventures: Director of Advocacy, Criminal Justice
McCain Institute: Social Media Manager, Digital Communications
National Alliance of Forest Owners: Director for Communications
Woodberry Associates: Senior Associate, Advocacy Management
Bipartisan Policy Center: Project Assistant, Campus Free Expression Project
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Form: Tech industry resume book for people affected by layoffs