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1. Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 22:35:07 EDT Eugen

   I published:

   #DeleteFacebook: Perspective from a platform that doesn’t put democracy in peril

   https://medium.com/tootsuite/deletefacebook-fafdc4090307

   1. Prasanna Venkadesh (prashere@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Mar-2018 23:38:38 EDT Prasanna Venkadesh

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      @Gargron shared among my circles outside of mastodon too. :-)

   2. Cathal Garvey (cathal@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Mar-2018 05:46:03 EDT Cathal Garvey

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      @Gargron This is awesome, and I'll be sharing it widely. But, I also think now is the time to start talking about how we stop the likes of #CambridgeAnalytica / #Palantir from abusing the Fediverse's model, too. I work for scrapinghub.com - I can see how easy it would be to map and monitor the entire fediverse right now. From there to hyper-targeted fake profiles is a small enough step. How do we harden ourselves against #Twitter / #Facebook-style manipulation without damaging the social fabric?

      1. ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Mar-2018 13:52:08 EDT ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️

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         @cathal a key truth about a loosely knit federated system is that its far easier for an organized group to roll up the entire system and set up whatever idea infections are required - there'll be inadequate incentive alignment to cooperate with the time it takes to recognize the infowar and fight back.

         you need a funded anti-abuse team with the time and energy to do broad coordination & enforcement.