#PlatformPower
Pew just dropped the data: AI summaries on Google are killing clicks to news sites.

Translation? Tech platforms are strip-mining journalism for training data and audience reach—leaving publishers out of the loop.

📎 www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
#AIandMedia #PlatformPower #SupportJournalism
Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.
www.pewresearch.org
July 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The next time you wonder how lies win—look at the platforms.

Not just what was said. But where, how fast, and why it spread.

Disinfo doesn’t need a strategy—if the system already gives it one.

#DigitalThreats #PlatformPower #ElectionMisinformation
March 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Of course they are.

#platformpower
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."
www.404media.co
January 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
It doesn’t reward clarity.
It rewards conflict.

Two domains. One pattern.

#AlgorithmicAmplification #Disinformation #CognitiveSecurity #PlatformPower #NarrativeWarfare
May 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Coming next:
Climate and COVID — The Perfect Test Cases

What happens when algorithms reward contrarianism during a pandemic or planetary crisis?

#AlgorithmicAmplification #Disinformation #CognitiveSecurity #PlatformPower #NarrativeWarfare
May 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Next up:
COVID, AIDS & Biolabs: How Health Disinfo Repeats Itself

Spoiler: Russia's AIDS playbook is back — with new branding.

#Disinformation #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #PlatformPower
April 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🏠📉 New in Big Data & Society
Why did the smart home fail?

Mundane resistance at home—not just tech flaws—undermined Big Tech’s vision.

📖 Goulden & Cameron: lnkd.in/ezp-Ee-h
#SmartHome #PlatformPower #SurveillanceCapitalism
August 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Why algorithmic curation is a form of power — not just design.

#AlgorithmicAmplification #Disinformation #CognitiveSecurity #PlatformPower #NarrativeWarfare
May 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This was Thread 4 of 5 in Tuned to Misinform.

If we treat platforms like passive tools, we’ll never understand how they move minds.

And we’ll keep mistaking exposure for consent.

#PlatformPower #Disinformation #CognitiveSecurity #InfoOps
May 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The Atlantic is right to call out Polymarket.

When political outcomes become betting odds, incentives replace judgment and manipulation masquerades as insight.
Democracy can’t be reduced to a market signal.

🔗 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

#Democracy #Tech #PlatformPower
America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster
Why is the media obsessed with prediction markets?
www.theatlantic.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:07 AM
#Democracy #PlatformPower “needs musk”
December 6, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Dance Under the Blue Sky: Join the Vibe Revolution
#BlueSky, #Butterfly #DanceWithUs, #VibeRevolution, #JoinTheFun, #PlatformPower
#CryptoMusicCap
November 15, 2024 at 1:06 AM
All threads available under:
#AlgorithmicAmplification
#Disinformation
#CognitiveSecurity
#NarrativeWarfare
#PlatformPower

Tag them. Share them. Build on them.

Disinformation is a system. So is defense.
May 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
📢 ITUC report flags #Meta as a threat to democracy

💻 Meta enables far-right content, fuels division, and profits from surveillance — all while cozying up to military contracts.

⚠️ Disinfo + data + dodgy politics = danger
📎 Full breakdown: buff.ly/xlWRV3y

#Surveillance #PlatformPower #ForDemocracy
October 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
May 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
May 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Crypto is still solving problems for itself—not for everyone else.
#Web3 #PlatformPower #SystemChange
June 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The great paradox of our age: Twitter, a profit-seeking corporation, now functions as the de facto gazette of nations—issuing decrees, waging diplomacy, and absorbing regulatory retribution on behalf of states that neither own nor fully control it.
#PlatformPower #Statecraft #Twitter
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Anyone know anything about who owns @bsky.app? A friend just pointed to this article which made me concerned. www.linkedin.com/posts/joecar...
Joe Cardillo on LinkedIn: #bluesky #bigtech #socialmedia #platformpower #startups | 133 comments
Many people are making the leap from Twitter/X to Bluesky – even though the design & experience are currently better, I won't be signing up... I worked… | 133 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:55 PM