Leeam Azoulay

NYC

38 years old, whip smart, conservative, strategic, and actually cares about the rule of law. Well done.

So there’s a protest tomorrow in front of the US district court in manhattan to express support for Sassoon’s courage and call on Hochul to remove Adams, right… right?

אבל את מעולה!

Please call a protest to press Hochul to remove him! Name a time and place

What you can do to fight the Trump agenda A list of lists of how to resist

My compilation of what you can do to fight the Trump agenda www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...

When I worked for Oxfam in South Sudan, we used Fewsnet data all the time to understand and explain the food security situation in the country. This is devastating.

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Congress must act now

Someone should write about how tech people became (or acquiesced to) anti-science

From "Content Moderation as Systems Thinking"

From my reading list 👀

"Platforms that removed only content that could be made illegal would rapidly become unusable, mired in spam, porn, harassment, and other graphic but not unlawful speech."

Evelyn Douek in 2022

President Holloway at Rutgers sent a lukewarm email yesterday at least acknowledging it’s happening

That’s right! How do we encourage them to do it? I also thought the idea of a daily/breaking briefing enumerating everything the admin is doing was a good idea and cd do well on social media

Peter Thiel Dreams of Empire | TechPolicy.Press The likes of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have effectively seized control of the US government, writes Dave Karpf.

I took a shot at decoding Peter Thiel’s strange conspiratorial rankings for @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

Short version: the tech billionaires are getting pumped to deploy the U.S. government to stop any *other* government regulating tech companies.

www.techpolicy.press/peter-thiel-...

With the repeal of the AI exec order, the Trump admin has rescinded an effort to regulate new tech for the public good, protect Americans against violations of their rights & liberties when AI is in use, and build the governmental muscle to ensure that AI serves all Americans. 1/4

In order to decide on their editorial policy they would need to have some independent judgement based on some pre-existing values, but they have none.

Community Notes needs Journalism. Here's some scientific evidence for it @andyzhao.bsky.social and I provided last year in the Journal of Online Trust & Safety where we looked at the dynamics of Cofacts, the Taiwanese crowdsourced fact-checked community:

www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

Content moderation on private platforms is imperfect, but the reflexive use of “censorship” in this Zuck statement — a word rendered meaningless by a right-wing propaganda campaign that saw moderating as disadvantaging them — is a purely political statement.

Important thing that is not discussed enough ⬇️ the significant funding FB was giving to fact checking organizations, including in the global south. Community notes are made possible by free labor. Platforms continue to shirk any responsibility for the harm resulting from the algorithms they design.

Very interesting thread, thank you!

The semicolon (appears twice), & every list has exactly 3 items, no less, no more (3 such lists appear here). Currently checking student papers 💀

One of the things we all really need from platform T&S teams — honest, authentic, human conversations about the impossible tradeoffs involved in this work — is made effectively impossible by the deranged ways a small number of people treat platform staff when they speak publicly. Ask me how I know.

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people walking in front of a building that says new orleans on the bottom Alt: people walking in front of a building that says new orleans on the bottom

While I have FOMO missing this year's #NCA2024 conference, you can catch many of my brilliant colleagues at #NCA over the next few days

There are too many to name them all, but here's a short list of Rutgers students and faculty presenting on **top panels**. You won't want to miss these!

My last tweet was posted on December 3, 2022, when it became clear that Elon was letting the Nazis run rampant. Just sayin'...