Madelyn Webb

I'm short but I'm healthy | Views are my own | She/Her

[RI DaSēr @so_treu]

Lol during the Black Twitter Summit last year, Yoel Roth told me, in front of everyone, that #YourSlipIsShowing shook the company up & literally made them shift moderation strategies. He did not reach out before the summit, he has not reached out since.

[Madelyn Webb @mdywebb]

@Jansplain If I can leave one legacy on this Earth

[Jolie McCullough @jsmccullou]

Yesterday, I was laid off by @TexasTribune after nearly 9 years.

New leadership got rid of its longest-tenured reporters and said they’ll no longer cover the criminal justice beat.

No one on police, prisons, courts, the death penalty. In Texas.

Here’s some of what we’ll lose:

[Alexa Ura @alexazura]

We quite literally finished it in the space between getting the emails scheduling the meetings at which we’d be laid off and the actual meetings.

[Alexa Ura @alexazura]

I was laid off by The Texas Tribune yesterday after more than 10 years there — most spent centering communities of color in my reporting.

This is my last story, which was set to run before I was called in. This is the kind of reporting I was doing: https://t.co/Y0XeeKDIrw

[Ren Larson @renLarson_]

Yesterday 11 employees at The Texas Tribune were laid off: More than 10% of the staff.

My former colleagues whose jobs were cut span the newsroom: Copy editors, video and multimedia, reporters, an editor, design, engineering, admin.

To support them: https://t.co/wssxBA30Ek

[Kayla Gogarty @ohhkaygo]

Join me for a timely convo with @uvadatascience on how social media and its algorithms can harm or protect the LGBTQ community @mmfa @gaytascience @unc_citap @https://dei.virginia.edu/conversation-every-data-point-tells-story

[Diara J.🌍 @CuriousScout]

Spent the last few weeks digging into research reports, models, frameworks, even declarations around the need for internet ethics. In this piece, I explore a collaborative ethical framework and its potential to create a just and equitable internet as the net continues to evolve.

[Rhea Bhatnagar @rheabhatnagar_]

In 2021, activists called on Facebook to take accountability for its role in the military coup in Myanmar.

A year later, the company still hasn’t listened.

https://t.co/QQoga8E3l6

[Booker G. Washington @BookerGWash]

This morning, a third anonymous mass bomb threat was made against at least seven HBCUs:
Howard (third time)
Alcorn
Mississippi Valley
Jackson State
Edward Waters
Kentucky State
Morgan State

Since January 4, a total of 21 bomb threats have been made targeting 19 different HBCUs.

[Bailey Koch-Farwana @bailey_koch]

Every worker deserves to be respected, protected and paid! Take action by urging @onnigroup to do the right thing and uphold the labor standard Chicagoans have fought long and hard for.

Take action here⬇️
https://t.co/JjHTW12ZFr

[Bailey Koch-Farwana @bailey_koch]

Have you heard of @onnigroup? Well, let me tell you about them.

They’re a development company from Canada who is building mega-complexes across Chicago and paying their workers low wages with few benefits.

@onnigroup, do the right thing — hire union! #WorkersUnite

[Spencer @wordsmithsilva]

New: We found dozens of examples of Disinfo Dozen members, and others who have been supposedly banned from Instagram, using the new link sticker feature to monetize their misinformation. https://t.co/Aad33DNhsr

[Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @McMisoprostol]

🧵🧵 Abortion funds in states that are likely to ban abortion when Roe is overturned:

1. Alabama: @YellowFund, @ARC_Southeast

2. Arizona: @abortionfundAZ, https://t.co/BZc8E2y9Em

3. Arkansas: @ARAbortionSppt

4. Georgia: @ARC_Southeast

5. Idaho: @nwaafund

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[Rhea Bhatnagar @rheabhatnagar_]

For years, Facebook has routinely ignored violent hate speech proliferating in Ethiopia — despite many warnings from activists and human rights groups.

new from me:
https://t.co/LnAUgOVMkP