I return to the point I made last year: Elon seems to be reinventing everything that Twitter was actually trying to do, but only after firing everyone who knew what they were doing, so inevitably doing it way, way worse.

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" We've totally, utterly, completely lost the plot. The theater criticism is just so deeply inadequate to the moment.

"Its outcome could heighten legal risks for any individuals who have attempted to aid foreign fighters or their families, irrespective of the aims behind that assistance." Tia Sewell examines a trial in France related to the financing of terrorism.

or as I may take to calling it, "a good ole fashioned common carrying speech website."

It's days like this that I REALLY miss Twitter.

The other runner up for the "WTF of the day" award goes to Justice Alito:

What You Need to Know: CPAC Kicks Off Week of Right-Wing Extremism

A top 20 list features older titles, including some from 2009

Mexican reporter José Díaz Briseño shares that Mexican president read aloud the personal phone number of Natalie Kitroeff during a press conference! She's NYT Bureau Chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. (Bio: "Maternity leave.") Twitter to follow this: twitter.com/diazbriseno/...

Brutal.

“By any objective measure, the NYT seems clearly devoted to advocating against this care.” www.motherjones.com/media/2024/0...

Here's one to round the day out, published just now. Impact from an earlier investigation that happened today. FTC fines Avast $16.5 million after mine and PCMag's investigation into how the AV harvested and sold browsing data www.404media.co/impact-ftc-f...

Fucking ridiculous.

Kinda gotta point out that the defining and constantly tinkering with "what is political" and therefore what won't be promoted is, inherently, a political decision

I've left Substack and have moved my ZERO DAY publication to Ghost. It took a while to get it set up and move the content and subscribers, and I still need to tweak the design a bit and get a logo (anyone have a suggestion for a logo?) but this is where you'll find ZERO DAY now:

Very excited about Columbia SIPA's new Trust and Safety Tooling Consortium focused on building a robust #opensource #trustandsafety ecosystem! Kudos to @camillefrancois.bsky.social for leading it and @dfrlab.bsky.social for inspiration: igp.sipa.columbia.edu/news/institu...

The results of my investigation are shocking. If data brokers can help extremists target misinformation to patients at Planned Parenthood, right-wing prosecutors in red states could use that same information to put women in jail. Protecting Americans' private health data has never been more urgent.

@CenDemTech’s Samir Jain is joining FOSI’s “The GenAI Generation,” alongside Stephen Balkam on February 15th @ 11am ET. Later discussion will also feature a #GenerativeAi researcher, a parent, and a teen for added perspective on #policy implications from recent FOSI research.

The Joe Biden robocall was identified quickly as a fake, but that probably won't be the case for local elections. Zeve Sanderson talks to Wisconsin Watch about the impact of AI on local politics. wisconsinwatch.org/2024/02/wisc...

"Meta did not give a specific reason as to why Khamenei’s account fell under the Dangerous Orgs and Individuals Policy" [now] It's a completely different content moderation world. Meta removes heads of state, doesn't explain, and it barely breaks into the news www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/t...