Casey Newton

Casey Newton @CaseyNewton

You can’t be relevant these days unless you understand the meta-text — very smart from @broderick https://t.co/1ECfky5AEW https://t.co/mxXrPBfzGb — PolitiTweet.org

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@harmancipants i couldn’t help but wonder … was this the kind of service that was meant to be a secret — PolitiTweet.org

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@harmancipants it’s like a normal writing job but you have to be willing to take a bullet for the president’s speechwriter — PolitiTweet.org

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@NateIngraham thank god — PolitiTweet.org

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I love her — PolitiTweet.org

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@FreckledXennial @mmasnick that's correct. the story is about how poor monitoring and removal tools prevented Twitter from launching ACM — but also about researchers' dire self-assessment of their CSE problem — PolitiTweet.org

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@kwameopam you expect me to believe they had insurance in Bedrock? it was the Stone Age Kwame. come on — PolitiTweet.org

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@imavip what do you mean it wasn’t exactly a secret? — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianfishman (without calling it a systemic issue, which in my experience makes people’s eyes glaze over because they have no idea what to do about systemic issues) — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianfishman I think that’s an important point to highlight, and I’d note that I’ve also written recently about the Google CSAM case and a couple of Thorn reports on the subject. So I’m trying to make it a plank of my beat and over time show people how this is a systemic issue — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianfishman Yes for sure! It’s an industry problem but we don’t often get to read companies’ own self-assessments on this subject — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mhbergen: Here is an excerpt from my book in this week's @BW. It's a dark topic but an important one. https://t.co/rH4jvz93Fi — PolitiTweet.org

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@IceKareemy @stevekovach i thought i had figured out a cheese by hopping on top of the merchant’s shack on my horse and casting spells at him, but he runs under the eaves like a damned coward!! anyway i will never beat him — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevekovach thank you for asking. I have three great runes and am about to tackle the royal capital. Recently I died 40 times to a bell bearing hunter in Caelid and gave up — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: Twitter convened a 84 person red team which came to the obvious conclusion: “Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exp… — PolitiTweet.org

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@hunterwalk interestingly the company brought this up to us the flip side of increasing reliance on automated tools — it increases false positives. but Google still seems to be much better at this, leaving aside the important questions of due process — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @robaeprice: Internal Twitter documents: “Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@darth i know! — PolitiTweet.org

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We want to know more. Are you a current/former Tweep who used Twitter’s CSE tools, including RedPanda? Or did you work on adult content monetization? DM or email [email protected] — PolitiTweet.org

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Ultimately those fears helped to scuttle a project that could have generated billions for Twitter. “We have weak security capabilities to keep the products secure,” the red team wrote. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nothing in the findings should have surprised Twitter executives. An internal report from February 2021 found that the company’s outdated, largely manual systems for tracking CSE were failing to keep pace with a huge spike in prevalence — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Twitter was readying an OnlyFans competitor this year, until a red team intervened and said it would be irresponsible. The reason: Twitter’s ongoing struggle to remove child sexual exploitation material from the platform https://t.co/ScF3Qh5Xo6 @ZoeSchiffer + me — PolitiTweet.org

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Stand by for news … — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeIsaac Yung Gravy would be a huge get for the new Medium — PolitiTweet.org

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@bcmerchant harsh but fair — PolitiTweet.org

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@malthe sure that seems fine — PolitiTweet.org

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After all I’ve written about the company, I appreciated a chance to talk with new CEO Tony Stubblebine about Medium’s next move — and why it’s probably done with the whole journalism thing https://t.co/nqGJjIPjoq https://t.co/tk6IMH4Q9q — PolitiTweet.org

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@jess @RachyMills omg congrats Rachel! — PolitiTweet.org

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@bennyfactor can only assume French tax inspectors have been on strike for the past 20 years — PolitiTweet.org

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Sad to see that Google has made one of life’s great pleasures, building an illegal pool in France, all but impossible — PolitiTweet.org