[Air-L] Twitter Journalist Suspensions

[Dr. Emma Briant]

I agree with you completely… but what do we doooo?

On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 05:25, Shulman, Stu <stu at texifter.com> wrote:

> For those of us building tools to study the impact of Twitter on politics,
> it was always a rocky ride watching bad actors skirt the best efforts to
> regulate them. Now that a single bad actor is the sole regulator of the
> Twitter architecture, we are in a scary place with the former head of Trust
> & Safety literally in hiding because of Elon's creepy QAnon style doxxing
> attack. An argument I put in a short animated video in 2016 about Lawrence
> Lessig and his brilliant book from 1999 remains relevant to the debate, but
> we may need to add a fifth regulator: the reckless American oligarch
> monarchist. Elon Musk now controls the Twitter architecture in ways that
> evolve dangerously daily and thumbs his nose at markets, norms, and what
> Lessig called east coast code; the law. The fifth regulator is power. Raw,
> almost unlimited, power to take over where Trump left off, making Twitter a
> weapon. For what end, only one man knows.
>
> https://vimeo.com/129423037
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:56 PM Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I’m sure all will agree that the mass censorship of, I think now 11
>> journalists from major news organisations today by Elon Musk is incredibly
>> disturbing. I am wondering how one deletes all one’s tweets? Anyone know?
>> I’m considering doing this but leaving my account as a placeholder, so I
>> am
>> not leaving that data there, and removing myself at this point from the
>> platform. I was hoping not to do this, given that I network in Twitter for
>> my research on propaganda and develop contacts. But this obviously crosses
>> such a line. People need to push back somehow not just move to mastodon ,
>> but I’m honestly not sure how. I’m trying to process the implications and
>> wondered other’s thoughts on this latest development.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emma
>> --
>> Dr Emma L Briant
>>
>> Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC
>> Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society
>> Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting &
>> Accountability
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>>
>> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global
>> Change *from
>> Manchester University Press
>> Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr.
>> Pauline
>> Donald from Pluto Press.
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> --
> Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
> Founder and CEO, Texifter
> Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*
>
>
> --
Dr Emma L Briant

Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC
Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society
Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting &
Accountability
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant
Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk

Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global
Change *from
Manchester University Press
Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline
Donald from Pluto Press.
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<http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>!
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"I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns
out today is." - Steve Martin