推特留住亚历克斯·琼斯的理由正在分崩离析

周二，在公众要求禁止Alex Jones和Infowars进入Twitter的压力下，首席执行官Jack Dorsey呼吁记者提供帮助。”“琼斯”这样的报道常常会耸人听闻，散布未经证实的谣言，”多尔西在推特上写道，“因此，关键是记者直接记录、验证和反驳这些信息，以便人们形成自己的观点。这才是最有利于公众对话的。”...

记者们大声抱怨被要求代表Twitter进行无薪内容审查。但本着服务于公众对话的精神，CNN的奥利弗·达西决定记录一些关于亚历克斯·琼斯的未经证实的谣言。在浏览琼斯的推特历史时，他发现了20起针对桑迪·胡克枪击案受害者、帕克兰枪击案幸存者、***者、***以及CNN的布莱恩·斯特尔特（Brian Stelter）的攻击，他将其称为“地狱深渊的字面恶魔之子”，一个“微笑的斜视恶魔，“和一袋堕落的反人类垃圾。”

昨天，在一份致员工的备忘录中，推特的安全负责人德尔哈维（delharvey）承认琼斯过去犯过罪，她最终公开了该备忘录。”如果他今天提出类似的指控，我们将采取行动，”她写道如果人们报告了他过去的内容，其中包括这些类型的指控，我们将要求他删除这些内容，但不会进一步惩罚他，因为我们努力避免追溯适用我们的政策。”

哈维写道，“我们的规则随着时间的推移而演变”，这意味着琼斯的行为曾经在推特上被接受，但现在不再是了。然而，正如哈维本周的博文所述，自2013年以来，琼斯对帕克兰幸存者的定向骚扰已被禁止。达西发现的许多推特和视频——在某些情况下与导致他在Facebook和YouTube上被禁止的推特和视频相同，在过去几个月内发布的其他平台中。

昨天，多西因为公司的瘫痪赢得了肖恩·汉尼蒂的赞扬。”如果我们屈服于外部压力，仅仅对外部压力做出反应，而不是不顾政治观点公正地执行（和发展）直截了当的原则，我们就会成为一种由我们个人观点构成的服务，这种观点可以向任何方向摇摆，”多尔西在解释时说。

但是，一家公司不能在无视为其其他用户群设定的标准的情况下，对外部压力采取原则立场。正如达西的故事所表明的，琼斯多年来一再违反多项推特规则，最近一个月，该公司拒绝执行这些规则。实际上，借用多西的话，推特的执法机构是“一个由个人观点构建的服务，可以向任何方向转变。”对于琼斯，它的行为就像最不慈善的批评者指责它的那样反复无常。

监管在线行为通常很困难。但这次不是。”他没有违反我们的规定，”多尔西周二谈到琼斯时说。这是一个经不起一次推特搜索的论点。

民主

棘手的问题：我们在自由表达上的界限在哪里？

Facebook今天在其“难题”系列中有另一个条目，这个条目集中在仇恨言论这个及时的话题上(同时还有一个小组讨论会，由一位前记者、一位活动家、一位加州大学伯克利分校教授和Facebook产品政策和反恐负责人莫妮卡·比克特（Monika Bickert）参加

Hate speech too can c***titute harm because it creates an environment of intimidation and exclusion and in some cases may have dangerous offline implicati***. It is perhaps one of the most challenging of our standards to enforce because determining whether something is hate speech is so dependent on the context in which it is shared. Even in countries where there are very detailed laws about hate speech, like Germany, there is disagreement. A German court recently ordered us to restore a statement which seemed to compare migrants to “vermin” and “parasites” that we had previously removed under our hate speech standards. The court viewed the statement differently and felt it related to the conduct of specific individuals and not migrants generally.

Facebook将禁止其平台上的3D打印枪文件

对于想要拥有武器的人来说，这里的好消息是美国基本上没有其他**法：

The move comes amid a rush by states to block these instructi*** from being posted. A July settlement between the State Department and Defense Distributed, an open-source organization that created the first completely 3D-printed gun, cleared the way for the group to publish the gun code. However, that was stalled when a federal judge on July 31 granted a temporary nationwide injunction that prevented Defense Distributed from uploading the plans.

In the meantime, Facebook is taking its own stand. “Sharing instructi*** on how to print firearms using 3D printers is not allowed under our Community Standards,” Facebook said in a statement. “In line with our policies, we are removing this content from Facebook.”

微软威胁说将停止托管仇恨言论帖子

拉塞尔·布兰多姆（Russell Brandom）报道说，Gab是一个Twitter，面向那些在Twitter上被炒鱿鱼的人和那些希望仍能在Twitter上发推的人，它可能会因为一些纳粹帖子而失去其网站主机：

Microsoft has threatened to cease hosting services for the alt-right social network Gab over two anti-Semitic posts, according to an email published by Gab founder Andrew Torba. The email claims the posts violate Microsoft policy and requests that Gab “promptly take appropriate action to resolve the complaint…within two business days” or hosting service will be suspended. If Gab is forced off Azure, Torba says service “will go down for weeks/months” as the company secures a new provider.

The named posts were written by Patrick Little, a Senate candidate who was ejected from a GOP convention in May for anti-Semitic views. The named posts, which are more than three weeks old, also express intense anti-Semiti** and meet any reasonable definition of hate speech. Little has pledged to remove the posts, but described the complaint as “a violation of our rights as Americans.”

推特怎么了？

你有多少时间，Daniel Funke？？？他写道，该公司对其他社交平台所接受的事实调查工作漠不关心：

While there’s ample reason to doubt that Facebook and Google’s efforts are working, Twitter doesn’t even have any comparable programs, aside from aiding a collaborative fact-checking project during the recent Mexican electi***. And it’s not like the company isn’t aware of efforts at other companies — fact-checkers have repeatedly asked Twitter for similar partnerships.

“(Agência) Lupa has its Twitter account as the most active social media and has reached (out to) Twitter many times for partnership,” said Cristina Tardáguila, director of the Brazilian fact-checking project, in a WhatsApp message. “Unfortunately, we haven’t managed to establish a partnership. We (have worked) with Google and Facebook for over a year, but not with Twitter.”

超过40000名Facebook用户表示对可能与俄罗斯有联系的政治**感兴趣

托尼·罗姆（Tony Romm）和伊丽莎白·德沃斯金（Elizabeth Dwoskin）统计了那些对虚假事件“感兴趣”的人。这里的问题：我有时只是因为被邀请而对活动“感兴趣”。这个数字有可能被夸大了吗？

病毒式政治广告可能没有你想象的那么有说服力

伊西·拉波斯基（Issie Lapowsky）写道，一个非营利组织的实验表明，Facebook上的内容很可能不像宣传活动希望的那样具有说服力(正如她所指出的，这就是为什么特朗普竞选集中于直接回应广告，而不是广泛吸引选民的原因。）

比尔·纳尔逊：俄罗斯人已经渗透到佛罗里达州的一些选民登记系统

我很想知道这里到底发生了什么：

Russian operatives have “penetrated” some of Florida’s voter registration systems ahead of the 2018 midterms, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday, adding new urgency to concerns about hacking.

The state, however, said it has received “zero information” supporting his claim.

在别处

“你可能认识的人：”一个备受争议的Facebook功能的10年历史

克什米尔山回顾了Facebook的“你可能认识的人”功能，该功能推动了Facebook在全球的发展：

Facebook refuses to let users opt out of PYMK, telling us last year, “An opt out is not something we think people would find useful.” Perhaps now, though, in its time of privacy reckoning, Facebook will rec***ider the mandatory nature of this particular feature. It’s about time, because People You May Know has been getting on people’s nerves for over 10 years.

如果你在网上约会时先发信息，你可能会出击超过你的体重

利维亚·阿尔贝克·里普卡来这里是为了毁了我的一天，一个几乎总是发出第一条信息的人(这篇论文只研究了**恋者，但这似乎应该是普遍正确的。）

According to research published Wednesday in Science Advances, people tend to initiate online conversation with people who are at least 25 percent more desirable than they are, based on how many initial messages they they received from other users and how “desirable” those users were themselves. Men tend to be even more aspirational than women when sending a first message. But there is only up to a 21 percent chance that the woman a man messages will write back, and that number drops as the desirability gap widens.

The paper ****yzed data from heterosexual users of an unspecified “popular, free online dating service” in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Seattle from January of 2014. The highest ranked person in all four cities was a 30-year-old woman in New York City, who received 1504 messages during the period of observation, the equivalent of one message every 30 minutes for the entire month.

表情符号夫妻明年可能会出现55种性别和肤色组合

这是自由主义者想要的未来。

发射

Facebook推出了导师制，在小组内匹配人员，帮助他们互相指导

这里有一项新的免费服务，可以匹配Facebook群组中寻求指导的人：

Early users of the mentorship feature include Mama Drag***, a group focused on providing support to Mormon parents of LGBTQIA children; and a group focused on learning how to make soap. (Yes, soap.) Mentorship product manager Gabriel Cohen said that the kind of help that mentors will be providing will vary widely, from helping new Group members “learn the ropes” in the Group, through to providing more direct support and guidance in whatever the specific area might be.

Anchor现在可以让播客从听众那里获得Patreon风格的承诺

Anchor渴望在YouTube上播放音频，因此看到它在创作者生命的早期就为他们的粉丝提供了一种直接收入的方式，这是令人鼓舞的。

Discord将开始销售游戏

游戏聊天应用Discord正在从主持白人至上主义者组织会议扩展到销售游戏。

谷歌推出Cameos，一款视频Q&amp；针对名人和公众人物的应用程序

谷歌希望名人们在视频中回答关于自己的最常见问题，然后在搜索结果中进行宣传。Cameos是一款可以让他们这么做的应用程序。我试图登录，但显然我不是名人。粗鲁！

拿

规则不会拯救Twitter。价值观会改变。

Kara Swisher告诉Twitter禁止Alex Jones：

Values would require that Twitter make tough calls on high-profile and obviously malevolent figures, including tossing them off as a signal of its intent to keep it civil.

And Mr. Jones is not even an edge case: His bilious lies, including that the murders of the Sandy Hook Elementary children were “synthetic, completely fake, with actors,” clearly sully the platform. Besides, let’s be clear: Twitter can change its rules to ban whoever it wants anytime, because it is not a public trust but a for-profit company.

大科技公司本周取缔了琼斯，但学到的东西很少

Charlie Warzel表示，信息战传奇的教训已经在科技巨头身上消失了：

Jones和Infowars认为，科技平台已经打倒了审查制度的“清洗”，并警告其他保守派和亲特朗普的媒体将是下一个。但在现实中，除了揭示这样一个事实外，几乎没有先例，即当受到竞争对手的压力和长达一个月的糟糕公关时，科技巨头们愿意争先恐后地采取全面、单方面的行动。

For some, Jones’ partial de-platforming offered a sliver of hope that big tech companies were perhaps finally ready to make the difficult decisi*** necessary to transparently and c***istently crack down on behavior that stifles speech of others, endangers users, and is potentially harmful to broader discourse. But while Jones’ speech is frequently vile, it feels like there’s little to celebrate. Many of tech’s biggest platforms took c***equential action against what can only be described as an edge-case offender — an outlet led by a 30-year c***piracy veteran whose content not only frequently crosses the boundaries of decency but is quite literally designed to stoke outrage. More importantly though, none of these platforms used the opportunity to provide a transparent roadmap for enforcement in a post-Jones platform era. In a number of cases (including Apple’s), we’re left with more questi*** about c***istent enforcement than we had at the outset.

在数字世界打击仇恨和白人民族主义

美国进步中心（Center for American Progress）在一份新的白皮书中写道：“需要一个促进包容性和多样性的进步数字议程，以应对这一最新变化，缓解仇恨和暴力。”

Halting the spread of violent white nationali** online will require nonprofits and private sector companies in the media and technology industries to devote substantial resources toward research and the development of best practices to address this threat. This research should seek to fully identify and understand patterns of behavior; platforms for communication and indoctrination; and mechani**s for exchanging money and weap***.

In the meantime, media and technology companies should begin implementing clear terms-of-use policies, expand enforcement mechani**s, and put in place measures to ensure transparency and accountability.

数字排毒：大科技虚假的良心危机

格拉夫顿·坦纳（Grafton Tanner）从左翼批评了这场花费了大量时间的运动：

In a time when free-market capitali** is the only game in town, massively centralized tech companies have virtually unfettered reign. Yet the technocrats never mention capitali**. They rarely talk about the surveillance state or the problems with data privacy. They fail to attack the attention economy at its roots or challenge the basic building blocks of late capitali**: market fundamentali**, deregulation, and privatization. They reinforce neoliberal ideals, privileging the on-the-move individual whose time needs to be well spent— a neatly c***umerist metaphor. Competition is the name of the game, and when our technology has us by the brain stem, according to Harris, “[w]e have to change what it means to win.“

最后。。。

我计划写一篇关于我对Instagram TV的分析的博客文章

在我看来，如果你是一个有影响力的人，并且从不停止向别人传授如何成为一个有影响力的人，那么在谈到IGTV这个话题时，你有两个选择。这些选择是（1）写下来，（2）不要写出来。Gary Vaynerchuk不知何故发明了第三类，那就是让他的团队写一篇关于为什么他没有写任何关于它的文章。经过数百个词的热身，包括几句他说自己对IGTV理解不够而无法发表评论的话，他提出：

I’m a little surprised that Instagram decided to launch a completely separate app as opposed to just including long-form video in Instagram itself; long-form video in Instagram would have crushed, and I still believe that to be the case.

长格式视频现在当然可以在Instagram中通过IGTV以及独立应用程序获得。我今天要传达给你们的信息是：当心虚假的预言家，而且影响经济的因素已经失控。