昨晚，在越来越大的压力下，亚历克斯·琼斯（Alex Jones）出现在推特上，首席执行官杰克·多尔西（Jack Dorsey）试图解释公司的立场。在一系列五条推文中，他提出了以下理由：

• 琼斯没有违反推特的规则。
• 推特不会仅仅因为其他平台禁止了某人。
• 记者应该“记录、证实和驳斥”那些“像琼斯这样的报道”散播的“未经证实的谣言”。

然后，他链接到一篇有点令人困惑的新博文“推特规则：一个活文档”，这篇博文只说推特规则是一个活文档。令人困惑的是，没有人指责推特规则是一个死文件，只是一个薄弱且执行不稳定的文件，无论如何，它似乎与多尔西的推特没有什么关系，即使它们是同时发布的。

在公开场合，推特风暴在最初的24小时内产生了超过20000条回复。对于Twitter来说，在一个没有采取任何行动的主题上，似乎有很多话要说，特别是考虑到不采取行动是该公司在政策问题上的默认操作模式。它引发了大量来自记者的负面评论，他们对他们应该作为推特的非官方版主无偿服务的想法持异议；还有现在和以前的员工，他们被多尔西的模糊推理吓跑了。

艾米丽·霍恩（Emily Horne），直到最近，Twitter的政策沟通负责人，还称多尔西明显破坏了其信息传递。”事实上，我们在解释我们过去的决定时表现得很糟糕。我们正在解决这个问题，”他在推特上说。霍恩回答说：“请不要把目前的状态归咎于沟通。这些决定并不容易，但它们不是沟通电话，诋毁你的同事是无益的，因为他们的信誉有助于解释这些决定。

多西回答说，他没有责怪球队，尽管他以前也责怪过。11月，Twitter处理了一系列包含反***图片视频的推文。这些推特由极右翼边缘团体“英国第一”发布，随后由唐纳德·特朗普总统转发。推特决定让这些推特继续存在，因为尽管它们可能违反了推特的规则，但它们具有新闻价值。

一天后，该公司改弦易辙，称这些推特是被允许的，因为它们和琼斯一样，毕竟没有违反公司的规定。”我们错误地指出了我们没有对本周早些时候的视频采取行动的错误原因，”多尔西在推特上写道。

在这两个案例中，多尔西都将推特在其平台上解决仇恨言论的斗争定义为交流问题，而非政策问题。然而，正如一位前推特员工昨天告诉我的那样，多西的推特风暴本身并没有传达关于琼斯或公司政策的真实信息。他的账户仍然活跃，这一事实表明他没有被发现违反其规则。

同时，线程引入了至少三个新问题。其一，通过让首席执行官公开讨论个人账户，推特鼓励了一种观点，即账户禁令取决于一个人的突发奇想。第二，它在一年内第二次公开破坏Twitter的沟通团队。第三，它莫名其妙地把执行政策的责任推给了记者。

周三下午，当多尔西（Dorsey）在肖恩·汉尼蒂（Sean Hannity）的广播节目中把注意力转向保守派幻想中的共和党人被“影子禁止”参加这项服务时，这些都没有提到。多尔西冷静地解释了时间线排名，汉尼蒂盛赞多尔西对琼斯的无动于衷。没有人学到任何东西。

为此，我们不得不等到周三下午，查理·沃泽尔（Charlie Warzel）发布了Twitter安全总监德尔·哈维（Del Harvey）的内部备忘录(哈维后来自己发了推特。）哈维也是“活文档”博客帖子的作者，但备忘录尽管长度基本相同，但包含的信息却多得多。

她说，琼斯没有被禁止的原因是，尽管他过去的行为违反了推特目前的规则，但当时并没有违反推特的规则。所以他可以留下来，假设他没有违反活的文件。哈维接着说，规则的进一步修改可能会影响琼斯，包括一项关于言论的新政策，该政策会使他人失去人性。

关于她所谓的“非人化政策”，哈维说Twitter将在本周对其进行审查；当涉及到Twitter以外的不良行为时，该公司有一个“目标，就是在9月中旬之前为员工审查提出一条前进道路的建议”——这几乎是一个滑稽的不承诺承诺。推特承诺透明度的缺点是，有时候，你可以看穿它们。

与此同时，苹果表示，它没有禁止Infowars应用程序，因为它还没有在其直播流中发现任何不良行为。这是谷歌Play商店中排名第一的流行应用。

民主

随着亚历克斯·琼斯（Alex Jones）的到来，Facebook在国外最可怕的恶魔开始回归国内

马克斯·费舍尔（Max Fisher）调查了琼斯案与阿米斯·韦拉辛格（Amith Weerasinghe）的关系，后者是斯里兰卡极端分子，利用Facebook宣传反***观点；2014年，Ashin Wirathu的仇恨言论引发了缅甸的骚乱。他写道：“发展中国家使用Facebook的经历表明，无论Facebook的意图多么高尚，它已经引发了一系列我们才刚刚开始理解的问题，事实证明，该公司无法或不愿全面解决这些问题。”。费希尔继续说：

The platform has grown so powerful, so quickly, that we are still struggling to understand its influence. Social scientists regularly discover new ways that Facebook alters the societies where it operates: a link to hate crimes, a rise in extremi**, a distortion of social norms.

谷歌在中国开发审查过的搜索引擎

瑞安·加拉赫（Ryan Gallagher）在挖掘有关谷歌秘密中国计划的信息方面做得非常出色，他发现谷歌正在利用其拥有的一个名为265.com的网站收集信息，了解如果获得进入中国的许可证，它必须审查哪些条款：

It appears that Google has used 265.com as a de facto honeypot for market research, storing information about Chinese users’ searches before sending them along to Baidu. Google’s use of 265.com offers an insight into the mechanics behind its planned Chinese censored search platform, code-named Dragonfly, which the company has been preparing since spring 2017.

After gathering sample queries from 265.com, Google engineers used them to review lists of websites that people would see in resp***e to their searches. The Dragonfly developers used a tool they called “BeaconTower” to check whether the websites were blocked by the Great Firewall. They compiled a list of thousands of websites that were banned, and then integrated this information into a censored version of Google’s search engine so that it would automatically manipulate Google results, purging links to websites prohibited in China from the first page shown to users.

YouTube现在正在检查有关气候变化的视频

上个月我写了一篇关于YouTube的“信息线索”的文章——出现在一些阴谋内容下面的卡片，用来引导用户从维基百科和其他来源获得更准确的信息。Zahra Hirji报道说，气候变化视频是YouTube视频中获取线索的最新类别。阴谋论者似乎对此反应良好：

“Despite claiming to be a public forum and a platform open to all, YouTube is clearly a left-wing organization,” Craig Strazzeri, PragerU’s chief marketing officer, said by email. “This is just another mistake in a long line of giant missteps that erodes America’s trust in Big Tech, much like what has already happened with the mainstream news media.”

一款名为“Discord”的应用程序的传票可能会揭露夏洛茨维尔白人至上主义者的身份

一位地方法官裁定，游戏聊天应用程序Discord必须披露去年在夏洛茨维尔举办的致命的团结右翼**的组织者的身份。Meagan Flynn报道：

In his 28-page ruling, Spero appeared to acknowledge why Discord might have been so appealing to members of the so-called alt-right in the first place: “It is clear that many members of the ‘alt-right’ feel free to speak online in part because of their ability to hide behind an anonymous username,” he wrote.

Discord’s popularity among members of the alt-right ahead of the Charlottesville rally surfaced largely after hundreds of their messages were leaked to a media collective known as “Unicorn Riot.”

在别处

亚马逊似乎已悄然停止推荐亚历克斯·琼斯的产品

针对亚历克斯·琼斯的公众压力运动又赢得了一场胜利：

Amazon wasn’t just selling the products – it was sort of recommending them. A Politico story from this morning noted that many Jones products had the “Amazon’s Choice” logo on it, which is an internal stamp of approval for certain items on the platform. Now, it seems Amazon has taken the “Choice” designation away from Jones’s products.

谁是卡农的支持者？QAnon subreddit，通过数据分析。

根据Alvin Chang的分析，备受讨论的卡农阴谋是相对较少的Redditor的产物：

About 200 users account for a quarter of the forum’s comments. These people are clearly c***piracy theorists who believe they are investigators unearthing the truth, and they spend almost all their time on Reddit investigating these theories.

Another 700 users account for the next quarter of comments. The user we followed at the top of this story is among these people. They are active in /r/greatawakening but also spend time on other subreddits. Nearly everyone else in the subreddit — the 11,000 commenters and 42,000 lurkers — are just along for the ride.

Facebook的青少年应用程序使用了一种“心理技巧”来吸引高中下载

Ryan Mac得到了TBH的一份增长备忘录，TBH是一款民意调查应用程序，去年曾一度风靡it。它所描述的策略非常成功，以至于Facebook在收购TBH后不到一年就关闭了TBH，并将其员工转移到其他方面。

对于处于抽搐状态的**来说，单身已经成为一个雷区

我的同事帕特丽夏·埃尔南德斯（Patricia Hernandez）报道说，**广播公司在Twitch节目中面临着**广播公司所没有的障碍：

Many women on Twitch say that being on the platform means navigating complicated expectati*** from viewers, especially when it comes to relati***hips. Some viewers expect romantic availability from women streamers, or demand to know their relati***hip status before investing in them. Other times, viewers can cross a line and become possessive or entitled toward the women they watch on Twitch. Streamers, in turn, have to make tough decisi*** about how they present to their audience, and how much they decide to share when both concealing or disclosing their romantic relati***hip can come with a cost.

发射

Magic Leap One Creator版本预览：混合现实的惊人潜力的错误一瞥

售价2295美元的Magic Leap One Creator版已经面世，看起来像个哑弹。

新的面部识别工具可以跟踪社交网络中的目标

我的同事拉塞尔·布兰登（Russell Brandon）介绍了一种新工具，它可以拍照，并通过面部识别对社交网络帐户进行爬网，以找到匹配的人。他报告说，它是为好的目的而设计的，但也可以用于坏的目的：

The end result is a spreadsheet of confirmed accounts for each name, perfect for targeted phishing campaigns or general intelligence gathering. Trustwave’s emphasis is on ethical hacking — using phishing techniques to highlight vulnerabilities that can then be fixed — but there are few restricti*** on who can use the program. Social Mapper is licensed as free software, and it’s freely available on GitHub.

道德操作系统帮助科技初创企业避免道德灾难

Arielle Pardis报道，帕洛阿尔托智库未来研究所和Pierre Omidyar倡议的技术与社会解决方案实验室合作，为科技公司编写了***德指南。除其他事项外，该指南鼓励公司检查其信息泄露和宣传的风险。

拿

推特不是你的朋友。Sarah Jeong的故事向我们展示了原因。

Ezra Klein说，推特接受群体对话，使之公开，引起缺乏所有相关背景的人的愤怒，并因此使社会变得更糟：

If you’re a c***ervative, the liberal tweets that get shot into your sightline aren’t the most thoughtful or representative missives; they’re the ones designed to make you think liberals hate you, are idiots, or both. The same is true if you’re a liberal: you see the worst of the right, not the best. And after you’ve seen enough of these kinds of comments from the other side, you begin to think that’s who they are, that you’re getting a true picture of what your opponents are really like, and what they really think of you — but it’s not a true picture, it’s a distortion built to deepen your attachment to your friends, your resentment of your opponents, and your engagement on the platform. And it’s one that plays on our tendencies to read the other side with much less generosity than we read our own side.

The very first tweet was sent in 2006. This is a young medium, and over time, we’ll (hopefully) figure it out — how to interpret it, how to couch it, how to delete old tweets automatically. But for now, the lesson is clear: #NeverTweet.

Snapchat正变得像它所鄙视的互联网

希拉·奥维德挖苦地指出，Snap在许多使其业务与众不同的事情上正在改变方向(至少从投资者的角度来看，这可能是一件好事。）

Now, though, Snapchat is borrowing liberally from the internet conventi*** it has scorned. Snapchat is — irony alert — copying Facebook by refashioning its advertising business for companies that want quick payoffs from their ads. It’s tracking people to prove those messages worked. And Snapchat loosened demands for tailor-made video programs, which makes it more like the rest of the web.

最后。。。

Facebook在关于印尼地震的帖子中添加了气球和五彩纸屑

让我们快速了解一下人工智能的现状：

Selamat in Indonesian can be translated as both “safe” or “unhurt,” as well as “congratulati***,” depending on the context. Because of this, Facebook’s algorithm misinterpreted comments expressing concern for the safety of people in Indonesia as messages of congratulati***, triggering a festive animati*** of ballo*** and confetti to play whenever someone commented using the word.

“This feature (a text animation triggered by typing ‘congrats’) is widely available on Facebook globally, however we regret that it appeared in this unfortunate context and have since turned off the feature locally,” Lisa Stratton, a Facebook spokesperson, told Motherboard in an email. “Our hearts go out to the people affected by the earthquake.”

假气球不是你的朋友！

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