Kate Coyer

Center for Media, Data and Society, School of Public Policy, Central European University and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

[Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock]

If you're a journalist who covered AI doomer calls for regulation, now you must cover what is actually going on with AI regulation.

I don't make the rules.

Here are some starting points:
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- White House national R&D strategy for AI: https://t.co/TXBLXu4rs2

[emily bell @emilybell]

Twitter vs not Twitter isn't a simple binary, particularly not for news journalism. The 24 hour global connectivity has changed almost everything about workflows in newsrooms and even for freelance journalists. It changes commissioning, newsgathering, sourcing, verification...

[Victor Pickard @VWPickard]

Every billionaire-owned platform is a policy failure.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight

[Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] @ubiquity75]

FYI, reporters:

Around 3,000+ contractor employees of Twitter were canned last night (totally normal thing to do, btw). How does Twitter have so many contractors? This is where the CONTENT MODERATOR numbers are hidden. They are called “agents” at Twitter.

[Kate Coyer @kcoyer]

I feel seen.

[ruchowdh.bsky.social @ruchowdh]

Elon’s mdau chart should have a special line for all the people who are just here to watch the site collapse slowly

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

Twitter employees could stop all layoffs by having all employees stick together and shut down all operations til they reinstate all.

Strike. Form a union.

We're in the biggest strike wave in the US since the 40s, w thousands of strikes in last 2yrs. Tech workers- get on board.

[Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] @ubiquity75]

THE ENTIRE HUMAN RIGHTS TEAM. Read that again. Read it. Let it sink in.

[Kate Coyer @kcoyer]

I read that in my best NPR voice but yes.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since the woke mob shut down the old rainbow fentanyl factory. So when Elon Musk promised everyone they could post Nazi slogans on Twitter, they finally had something to celebrate. But then the advertiser boycott began.

[Frank Lesser @sadmonsters]

lololo—and I cannot stress this enough—l

[Kate Coyer @kcoyer]

THIS.

[Prof Gina Neff @ginasue]

Right now, and I mean this instant, delete every digital trace of any menstrual tracking. Please.

[Kate Coyer @kcoyer]

Hate and rage. That's where I'm at right now.

[Ellery Biddle @ellerybiddle]

ICYMI: Read this serious deep-dive into #surveillance of immigrants and asylum-seekers in the US, by my new @CodaStory colleague @E_Hellerstein. Proud to have edited this. H/t terrific sources @LaylaMRazavi @ConMijente @sairahussain87

Some highlights👇🏻

https://t.co/bbhnKRxqux

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Years in the making. We're also seen his impunity and the way fanboys in "AI" were idolizing him and benefiting from doing so.

[Dr. Mona Elswah منى السواح @monaelswah]

This is the amount of paperwork I needed to prepare for my visa to #ICA22 . I was told after that it is most likely going to be rejected.

I am frustrated and don't want to start a thread on visas inequality but I am tired.

[Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz @RochDW]

We need to focus on the ways in which social media companies profit from extremism - beyond production and reception, the role of intermediaries matters - says @kcoyer at #EULOC #CIVICA workshop @ceu @CIVICA_EU @lseideas @lsenews @SNSPA_oficial

[Ellery Biddle @ellerybiddle]

Delighted to be working with the crew at @CodaStory these days! Last week, I got to think a bit on Elon Musk's possible takeover of @Twitter and speak with some great brains on the subject. Thank you @nixxin @MishiChoudhary @feathersproject @endalk2006 https://t.co/YfTdvqLqN9

[emily bell @emilybell]

Taking a moment to think about how utterly crazy it is that in 2022 a company with a significant dataset of private and public communications, that has municipalities, companies and governments on the platform, can switch ownership with pretty much zero scrutiny

[Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock]

Twitter should convert to a platform coop owned and democratically governed by Twitter workers and users, before Musk can fuck it up.