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    • davel [he/him]English
      3•1 year ago

      Not for long: the Global North countries have the fediverse on their radars now.

      Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)

      Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.

        • davel [he/him]English
          2•1 year ago
          • First they came for the lemmygrads, and I did not speak out because I was not a Marxist-Leninist
          • Then they came for the Hexbears, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist
          • Then they came for the lemmy.mls, and I did not speak out because I was not a security nerd
          • Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me
    • davel [he/him]English
      -3•1 year ago

      Which is some bullshit, because Russiagate was long-ago debunked, as well as the actual efficacy of Cambridge Analytica (it largely wasn’t). But thanks to Rachel Maddow’s daily conspiracy theorizing over the span of years, most liberals still believe that foreign State propaganda is going to Manchurian Candidate the populace and steal their democracy. Which makes them rather accepting of the idea that the government should decide what is mis/dis/malinformation. In other words they’ve been primed to accept censorship.

      • TWeaKEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        The Mueller report did find plenty of evidence of Russian interference, just not enough to charge Trump. It was a damn site better than the British report on the matter, though, which basically just said “we didn’t find anything because we didn’t look”.

        Cambridge Analytica absolutely had a role to play as well. The company was disbanded to try and prevent any fallback, however the same players are acting under different brands. Targeted Facebook ads have proven too effective, you can tell whatever lies you want if you select the right audience, then there will be no one to challenge them - particularly if you do it just before the election.

        Based on your vernacular, it sounds like you’re a hexbear user washed up on our shores and circumventing the defederation, shilling for Russia.