Popping back in to post our Lawfare analysis of Gonzalez/Taamneh: https://www.lawfareblog.com/supreme-court-punts-section-230

This was an interesting interview. https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-interview-metas-chief-privacy-officers

"Heather questioned whether or not Musk’s chaotic takeover of the platform and the sizable layoffs he enacted at the company might have potentially slowed down how quickly the company could respond to law enforcement requests." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-elon-musk-boy-kidnapped-groomed-discord-roblox-mcconney-rcna77985

https://cottonbureau.com/p/5E2EUX/shirt/im-sorry-as-an-ai-language-i-cannot

Just got permanently suspended for publishing this story: https://www.wired.com/story/matt-walsh-twitter-hack-doomed

The best thing that Dominion could do with their infusion of cash from Fox - for both their reputation and for the good of democracy - would be to invest it into developing more robust, auditable election technology, such as optical scan systems with features to facilitate Risk-Limiting Audits.

Some thoughts on the Dominion settlement: https://www.lawfareblog.com/dominion-v-fox-just-beginning

I had some thoughts about @nilay_patel's interview with Substack's Chris Best.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

Sir, it is 2023

Grand Platform Battle Royale dispatch: Substack Notes doesn't have alt text

Bellingcat’s Aric Toler spoke to the Lawfare Podcast about how he tracked down leaked U S intelligence documents to a little known Discord server named "Thug Shaker Central". Listen here: https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-rid-and-toler-latest-megaleak

#osint #intelligence #leak #US

this is musk’s twitter, a direct attack on the free flow of information ‘regardless of frontiers’
h/t to @sarahemclaugh

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-takes-down-post-on-home-minister-globally/article66711854.ece

I've boosted a few others pointing out this article, but I gotta say, I find it absolutely hilarious that Taibbi went from Musk bootlicker to effectively off the site and shadowbanned in 48 hours... especially since one of Taibbi's big (misleading and misunderstood) scoops was about Twitters visibility filtering... https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/

This is the most bizarre leaked documents story I’ve ever heard of.

Thoughts and prayers to the Discord legal response team this weekend.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/09/from-discord-to-4chan-the-improbable-journey-of-a-us-defence-leak/

@OranMagal Curious what you disagree with! I'm very much in the process of trying to figure this all out.

A beautiful rundown of the latest 🐦 happenings, the 🐦’s place in the world and people’s place both on the 🐦, on the 🦣 , and wherever else. Excellent work by @qjurecic.

https://open.substack.com/pub/qjurecic/p/what-now

(And guess what: I can link to it!)

I'm going to risk bringing down chaos upon myself by posting this about why it's hard for journalists to leave Twitter, not just for bad reasons but for good ones. https://qjurecic.substack.com/p/what-now

Twitter did the same thing with Mastodon in December, then suspended journalists like me who pointed that out https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blocking-mastodon-links-elon-musk-elonjet

How scared is Elon Musk of actual competition? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/07/twitter-substack-taibbi-musk-split/

I wrote about why Mehdi Hasan's takedown of Matt Taibbi actually destroys the entire foundation of the story Taibbi is trying to tell about the Twitter files. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/