‘Free Our Feeds’ campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create ...
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What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg made it clear he was ready to do business: In his peculiar black T-shirt and gold chain — ...
The dynamics that polarize us on social media are about to get worse
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes in how the company addresses misinformation across Facebook, ...
A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires
An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, aims to protect the social media technology that ...
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Facebook was right to ditch fact-checking—but it should learn from the limits of Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’
The previous fact-checking/moderation practices at both Meta and X were problematic and in need of an overhaul. The Community ...
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Publicly Funded Social Media Roads; Good SSPs Get Treats
Would the internet be a better place if it weren’t run by billionaires? Plus, more brands are cutting out the ad tech ...
Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in ...
In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet
Over the past two decades, the free-to-use online encyclopedia has carried on with its mission, expanding its global ...
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Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky
In a challenge to billionaire-controlled social media platforms, a group of nine less affluent technology leaders have formed ...
This Campaign Wants To Raise $4 Million To Make Social Media Immune To Billionaire Takeover
Free Our Feeds, which includes support from the Mozilla Foundation, is working with Bluesky to make sure the open source ...
Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem
A cadre of celebrities and former Twitter users are trying to create a vast social network that is freed from profit motive.