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1. Prof. Dr. Ginny McQueen, Esq (ginnymcqueen@kitty.town)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jul-2018 19:22:36 EDT Prof. Dr. Ginny McQueen, Esq

   If you have any, please @ me your favorite article about why Twitter/Facebook/Nextdoor/etc are bad and you shouldn't use them, preferably ones easy to understand from a non-tech perspective. Bonus points for anything that touches on information accessibility and abuse issues.

   1. Catrìona (catriona@toot.cat)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jul-2018 09:28:51 EDT Catrìona

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      @GinnyMcQueen this one describes how Twitter management were complicit in Trump's rise to power because they cared more about the investment money than they did about the real-world consequences of what they were doing (inc. disregard for anti-abuse features and inconsistent application of their own ToS): https://medium.com/@monteiro/one-persons-history-of-twitter-from-beginning-to-end-5b41abed6c20