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Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. Rare leaders unite integrity with realpolitik. Balance is almost always superior to extremes. Except for AI. #FckAI

[VK @GreatCircus]

Big tech is a cancer to the society - X, Meta, Google, all of them.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

this is an absolute disaster for meta.

and most people don’t know the tenth of it.

meta studied the solutions to child safety problems, calculated the growth impact, then shelved the fixes for years because metrics mattered more than protecting kids.

in 2019, safety researchers recommended making teen accounts private by default to stop adult strangers from messaging minors. the growth team ran the numbers and found it would cost 1.5 million monthly active teens per year.

policy, legal, communications, privacy, and safety teams all pushed for the change. one safety researcher asked: “isn’t safety the whole point of this team?”

meta waited five years. during that time, teens experienced billions of unwanted interactions with adults. billions. instagram had 38 times more inappropriate adult-teen interactions than facebook messenger.

the company had a 17-strike policy for accounts trafficking humans for sex. you could violate prostitution and solicitation policies 16 times before meta suspended your account. when the head of safety joined in 2020, she was shocked to find instagram had no way to report child sexual abuse content, even though users could easily report spam or intellectual property violations.

meta’s own employees saw what was happening. one wrote: “targeting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago. like we’re seriously saying ‘we have to hook them young’ here.”

another researcher studying problematic use said: “oh my gosh yall ig is a drug. we’re basically pushers.”

when meta ran a study showing that deactivating facebook and instagram reduced anxiety, depression, and loneliness, they killed the research and never published results. one employee worried internally: “is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves?”

then in 2020, when congress asked if meta could determine whether increased platform use among teenage girls correlated with depression or anxiety, meta answered: “no.”

they had the data. they had the solutions. they had employees begging them to act. meta chose growth metrics instead, then lied to congress about what they knew.

they knew kids were being trafficked. they knew adults were messaging minors. they knew their products were addictive. they knew the fixes. they ran the math on protecting children and decided it cost too much engagement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

absolute disgrace.

[bONGO🪻 @wariocolosseum]

we live in a world where the ppl in power are more interested in spending money on destroying the planet than spending money on actually fixing it

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

As @DeepHumor said, everyone needs to realize that every company and government around the world wants to harvest as much info from you as possible. And these “child safety” laws only mandate that they collect even more

[Atul singh @atuljmd123]

NEET re-exam के लिए #Mumbai के परेल स्थित एक कॉलेज में 2 min late आई एक छात्रा को entry से रोका गया..वहाँ खड़े अभिभावकों ने सेंटर का गेट तय समय से 7 min पहले बंद करने का आरोप लगाया..भारी हंगामा हुआ

@TNNavbharat
@EduMinOfIndia
@dpradhanbjp

[AAP Mumbai @AAPMumbai]

AAP NEET Student Helpline

77100 77100

Tomorrow is the NEET re-exam and and there is a BEST bus strike, which has crippled public transport in Mumbai.

BJP is busy buying MPs and breaking parties. BJP’s mayor is busy looting the BMC and Maharashtra’s exchequer. BJP doesn’t care for the students.

Our leader, @ArvindKejriwal has asked all volunteers in Mumbai to help NEET students.

If any student appearing for tomorrow’s exam wants a ride, then they may contact the helpline and our volunteers will help them.

Please do spread out helpline number - 77100 77100 extensively.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

@PreetiSMenon
Mumbai President,
Aam Aadmi Party

[Sanjay Maurya @MeSanjayy]

Education Minister @dpradhanbjp
says medical aspirants sitting for NEET-UG re-examination on June 21 "have faith in India's system and will continue to have it."

He also asks "true Indian citizens" to take responsibility.

Who will take responsibility of death of 18 students?

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Ha. And he immediately let ANI know so that it could be all over the news media. Sources never told or were never asked why he did not sack Pradhan when papers were leaked and the CBSE failed in its assessment.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

NOT AT ALL SUSPICIOUS 🤨

[Akshay Marathe @AkshayMarathe]

ANI is sitting with its camera at Jantar Mantar and hasn’t posted a single post about a youth movement, but it has gone inside Modi ji’s head and reported his deep concern for NEET students based on traffic decisions! This is why Godi media is hated and reviled

[Gss🇮🇳 @Gss_Views]

And Modi gov priority is Ethanol & Data Centres !!

Reason a leader ruling the country should be educated, not just based on that he was once a chai-wala.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

and there it is.
if you want to one-shot mario you have to log in to palantir first.

[VK @GreatCircus]

@RahulGandhi Is it true?

https://t.co/cnhDqxe5n8

[IANS @ians_india]

Bengaluru, Karnataka: A parent of one of the students says, "Rahul Gandhi, D.K. Shivakumar, and even the Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru, do not seem to be concerned. Rahul Gandhi went to Kota for the cause of students, right? But because of his party's function today, four students missed their examination."

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

In a billion years time you jackass.

All life on earth more likely to be destroyed by you

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Losing a war to terrorists is a severe narcissistic injury. He will need to repair his self-image through a sadistic performance of dominance. He’s looking for his next target.

[Harmeet Kaur K 🇮🇳 @iamharmeetK]

Modi's big hugs, reaching out to hold hand... It's so embarrassing.

Seriously why does he do this ??

[IANS @ians_india]

Bengaluru, Karnataka: A parent of one of the students says, "... Everyone across India knows that today, on the 21st, the NEET re-examination is being conducted. Yet the Congress has organized a rally here at the Palace Grounds. The roads have been blocked here for the last three hours, so how will the students reach the examination centers? They are stuck in traffic jams..."

[VK @GreatCircus]

@chirag @TriflingAlesman You’re not a thinking person then

[Bandkhor Future Aamdaar A 🇮🇳 @AdvanceDexter]

I don't understand this idea of closing the door. Abee jaane de na jab aayenge tab. They'd get less time whatever. Let them give the exam at least. Koi flight pakadne hai kya! WTF is this chutyaapa. They came late. They will face the consequences eventually.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

There has to be a better way than this torture - board exam marks are fine for college admissions.