Eli Sugarman

I return to the point I made last year: Elon seems to be reinventing everything that Twitter was actually trying to do, but only after firing everyone who knew what they were doing, so inevitably doing it way, way worse.

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

We've totally, utterly, completely lost the plot. The theater criticism is just so deeply inadequate to the moment.

A Trial in France Raises Hard Questions about the Financing of Terrorism Two mothers, two journalists, a lawyer, and a stepfather recently stood trial in Paris for charges related to the financing of terrorism. They argued they were trying to save lives.

"Its outcome could heighten legal risks for any individuals who have attempted to aid foreign fighters or their families, irrespective of the aims behind that assistance."
Tia Sewell examines a trial in France related to the financing of terrorism.

or as I may take to calling it, "a good ole fashioned common carrying speech website."

It's days like this that I REALLY miss Twitter.

JUSTICE ALITO: I mean, if your -- if -- let's say YouTube were a newspaper, how much would it weigh?

The other runner up for the "WTF of the day" award goes to Justice Alito:

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: CPAC Kicks Off Week of Right-Wing Extremism - Accountable US Today marks the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the MAGA confab filled with debunked conspiracy theories, far-right extremist beliefs, and attacks on our democracy.

What You Need to Know: CPAC Kicks Off Week of Right-Wing Extremism

What's Behind the Video-Game Layoffs? Players Sticking With Old Favorites With video-game players increasingly sticking with the titles they’ve been hooked on for years, leaders in the $184 billion industry are cutting thousands of staffers and canceling riskier projects.

A top 20 list features older titles, including some from 2009

José Díaz Briseño @diazbriseno • The Mexican President reading aloud today the phone number of the NYT’s Mexico City bureau chief during a press conference is a whole different level of press bullying. • A strategy to kill a story that the NYT is preparing about alleged ties of his Govt to drug traffickers Quote Luis Fernando García @tumbolian · 2h El presidente no solo mostró el número de teléfono de @Nataliekitro. LO LEYÓ EN VOZ ALTA. El presidente haciéndole doxing a una periodista. Qué tipo tan miserable. Se nota su enojo y desesperación. Show more 10:23 AM · Feb 22, 2024 · 50.4K Views

Mexican reporter José Díaz Briseño shares that Mexican president read aloud the personal phone number of Natalie Kitroeff during a press conference!

She's NYT Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. (Bio: "Maternity leave.")

Twitter to follow this:
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Brutal.

Anti-trans bills keep citing the New York Times “By any objective measure, the paper seems clearly devoted to advocating against this care.”

“By any objective measure, the NYT seems clearly devoted to advocating against this care.” www.motherjones.com/media/2024/0...

FTC Fines Avast $16.5 Million For Selling Browsing Data Harvested by Antivirus I previously revealed that Jumpshot, part of the cybersecurity company Avast, was selling products based on users’ browsing data harvested by its antivirus software. Now the FTC has issued a multimill...

Here's one to round the day out, published just now. Impact from an earlier investigation that happened today. FTC fines Avast $16.5 million after mine and PCMag's investigation into how the AV harvested and sold browsing data www.404media.co/impact-ftc-f...

Journalist Tim Burke Indicted For Leaking Tucker Carlson Clips That Embarrassed Fox News The clips, which included unaired, antisemitic remarks by Kanye West, were published by Vice and Media Matters.

Fucking ridiculous.

Kinda gotta point out that the defining and constantly tinkering with "what is political" and therefore what won't be promoted is, inherently, a political decision

ZERO DAY Stories about hackers, spies, cybercrime and the intersection between cybersecurity and national security.

I've left Substack and have moved my ZERO DAY publication to Ghost. It took a while to get it set up and move the content and subscribers, and I still need to tweak the design a bit and get a logo (anyone have a suggestion for a logo?) but this is where you'll find ZERO DAY now:

Very excited about Columbia SIPA's new Trust and Safety Tooling Consortium focused on building a robust #opensource #trustandsafety ecosystem! Kudos to @camillefrancois.bsky.social for leading it and @dfrlab.bsky.social for inspiration: igp.sipa.columbia.edu/news/institu...

A company tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations for anti-abortion ads, senator says The details in Wyden's letter, sent Tuesday morning, reveal what’s believed to be the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign.

The results of my investigation are shocking. If data brokers can help extremists target misinformation to patients at Planned Parenthood, right-wing prosecutors in red states could use that same information to put women in jail. Protecting Americans' private health data has never been more urgent.

FOSI - The GenAI Generation: Shaping the Future Registerrong>15, 2024 Time: 11 am – 12 pm ET In the past year, AI and genAI have become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. What does this mean for caregivers and policymakers who are working t...

@CenDemTech’s Samir Jain is joining FOSI’s “The GenAI Generation,” alongside Stephen Balkam on February 15th @ 11am ET. Later discussion will also feature a #GenerativeAi researcher, a parent, and a teen for added perspective on #policy implications from recent FOSI research.

What’s real and what’s not — Wisconsin lawmakers grapple with AI in elections Lawmakers in the Wisconsin Assembly are poised to vote Thursday on legislation that would require a disclosure when campaign communications feature content generated by artificial intelligence.

The Joe Biden robocall was identified quickly as a fake, but that probably won't be the case for local elections. Zeve Sanderson talks to Wisconsin Watch about the impact of AI on local politics.

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Meta removes Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s Supreme Leader | CNN Business Meta has removed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"Meta did not give a specific reason as to why Khamenei’s account fell under the Dangerous Orgs and Individuals Policy" [now]

It's a completely different content moderation world. Meta removes heads of state, doesn't explain, and it barely breaks into the news

www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/t...