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The third season of Netflixs futuristic techno-dystopian drama Black Mirror opens with a warning against the all-consuming allure of social clout. In a peer-to-peer scoring system, citizens lives are dictated by a fluctuating ranking based on the good and bad interactions that they have with othersa sort of Yelp-review model, but for people to give other people 1-to-5-star ratings. These scores, logged and on display via a social networking app, are as connected to your identity as a drivers license or Social Security number. Except that they also determine how friends, employers, and businesses treat you; where you are allowed to work; and what neighborhoods you are welcome in. The episodes protagonist, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, finds herself stuck with a middling rating, which shes working tirelessly to improve by thirstily seeking acceptance from the rich and popular. But her plan to boost her rating quickly falls apart when she has a very bad, very public breakdown at a wedding, resulting in the decimation of her social credit score after shes bombarded with 1-star reviewsthe life-altering incident that informs the episodes title: Nosedive.

While the Black Mirror series is set in a near-to-distant future, Senator Josh Hawley appears convinced that he is living in such a technological hellscape due to the wave of criticism hes facing for trying to disenfranchise millions of voters to help Donald Trump steal a presidential election. Have you checked your social credit score lately? You might want to. Mine seems to have taken a nosedive this month, the Missouri Republican wrote in New York Post op-ed, in which he did not cite the Black Mirror script despite seeming to crib from Rashida Jones and Michael Schurs writing. Hawley argued that ever since he backed Trumps stolen election conspiracy theory by attempting to stop the certification of Joe Bidens Electoral College winan anti-democratic delusion that Hawley maintained even after similarly deranged Trump supporters stormed the Capitol buildinghe has become the latest victim of cancel culture.

Hawley is not being forced out of a 3-star neighborhood because his in-app social credit score has plummeted. Instead, the senator merely lost his book deal with Simon & Schusterwhich he blasted on Fox News before getting a new deal with Regnery Publishingand political donations from some corporations, with Hallmark requesting he return its past employee donations. And despite Hawleys screed being featured on the Monday cover of the most popular tabloid in Americas most populous city, the columns featured image depicts a mans mouth being duct-taped shut with canceled written across it, alongside a headline that emphasizes the need to take a stand against the muzzling of America. (Rupert Murdoch, who owns the Post and Fox News, shares similar sentiments about the dangers of cancel culture.) Hawley also blasted out the op-ed to his more than half-million Twitter followers.

Many of Hawleys critics in the media have pointed out the humor in him complaining about censorship on a platform that is read by millions. As writer Judd Legum noted, If you want proof that Americas problem isnt cancel culture, Josh Hawley lied about election fraud, attempted to subvert the democratic process, helped incite a riot at the Capitol that left 5 people dead and hes still a United States Senator. Former Republican congressman Joe Walsh described Hawley as One of the leaders of the always a victim, always whining Republican Party, while Dispatch senior editor and Time columnist David French tweeted, Never forget his clenched fist salute to the mob that would soon sack the Capitol. And now hes assuming the victim posture after American citizens use their free speech to disassociate from a man who tried to break America for Donald Trump, and himself.

Now Hawley seems convinced that his free speech is personally under attack because he is so much of a P.R. headache that some megacorporations arent even trying to buy him anymore and a book publisher that previously put out some of Glenn Beck and Mark Levins right-wing screeds is cutting him off. Only in Hawleys reality could the possible loss of future corporate donations and one canceled book deal be a form of censorship so severe that it might as well be straight out of a techno-dystopian fantasy.

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The announcement of a change to the WhatsApp privacy policy saw many users looking for the most private messaging app to use instead. Signal and Telegram were the prime candidates in cross-platform apps, with the former having the strongest privacy protections, as no personal data is linked to users.

Apple was subsequently sued by a former US ambassador for allowing Telegram on the App Store after it was used by hate groups to threaten violence, and now existing and former Signal employees have expressed concern that the not-for-profit messaging app is failing to address the same issue

The background to the story has two elements. First, WhatsApp privacy changes. Second, right-wing social networking app Parler ceasing to operate.

WhenWhatsApp was sold to Facebook for $19B, the messaging app promised not to share data with its new parent company.It later did a U-turn on this, but did allow users to opt-out if they wished. That changed earlier this month, when the company changed its privacy policy again, to remove the opt-out.

WhatsApp subsequently delayed the change to give the company time to try to better explain its plans, but by that time the damage had already been done: More than five million people switched to Signal in the days following the controversy.

Right-wing social network Parler was shown to have been extensively used by rioters to plan the attempted coup at the Capitol. The vast majority of the online coordination leading up to the attack appears to have been done on Parler. That led to Apple and Google removing the app from their respective stores, and to many other companies ceasing to do business with the company.

That took the app and website offline, and while the company made alternative arrangements, the reality is that only a few guest posts now exist.

Former Parler users have been seeking alternative platforms, and appear to have mostly switched to Telegram groups. It was this that led to the lawsuit against Apple on the grounds that Telegram now hosts hateful content.

Signal employees, both past and present, believe that the app is ill-prepared for similar adoption by extremists. The Verge reports.

Signals rapid growth has also been a cause for concern. In the months leading up to and following the 2020 US presidential election, Signal employees raised questions about the development and addition of new features that they fear will lead the platform to be used in dangerous and even harmful ways. But those warnings have largely gone unheeded, they told me, as the company has pursued a goal to hit 100 million active users and generate enough donations to secure Signals long-term future.

Employees worry that, should Signal fail to build policies and enforcement mechanisms to identify and remove bad actors, the fallout could bring more negative attention to encryption technologies from regulators at a time when their existence is threatened around the world.

They say that CEO Moxie Marlinspike appears content to wait until the issue is already a problem, rather than taking preemptive action now.

During an all-hands meeting, an employee asked Marlinspike how the company would respond if a member of the Proud Boys or another extremist organization posted a Signal group chat link publicly in an effort to recruit members and coordinate violence.

The response was: if and when people start abusing Signal or doing things that we think are terrible, well say something, said Bernstein, who was in the meeting, conducted over video chat. But until something is a reality, Moxies position is hes not going to deal with it.

Bernstein (disclosure: a former colleague of mine at Vox Media), added, You could see a lot of jaws dropping. Thats not a strategy thats just hoping things dont go bad.

Like other messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption, Signal has no way to see the content of messages, but it can see when extremist groups post links to Signal groups. That doesnt yet appear to have happened, and Marlinspike says he is prepared to remove groups altogether if they are misused.

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Citys Dr Andrea Baronchelli, referencing followers of former US President Donald Trump, says the social media landscape is becoming increasingly fractured with the dark web offering clues as to what will happen next.

By Dr Andrea Baronchelli

(This articlefirstappeared on the website ofThe Alan Turing Institute)

Donald Trump has left his post this week as US President to make way for Joe Biden. The inauguration comes just two weeks after the storming of the US Capitol, after which Twitter announced that it had permanently suspended Donald Trump due to the risk of further incitement of violence. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitch similarlyblocked Trump from posting new content.

Trumps social media ban was followed bya rush in new users to Parler a social networking site that markets itself as an unbiased, free speech alternative to mainstream platforms. However, accusations that Parler had been used to orchestrate the Capitol storming led to the platform being removed from the Apple and Google app stores, and fromAmazon Web Services, forcing Parler offline.

Soon after, other alternative social media apps such as MeWe and CloudHubrapidly rose up the app store rankings. The big question now is whether users will gradually go back to mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter, or disperse into a myriad of smaller, less regulated services. I think that the dark web can provide some useful insights.

The dark web is a hidden part of the Internet thats only accessible through specialised, anonymising web browsers. Illegal activity is rife on the dark web, such as in dark marketplaces, where users trade goods, mainly using Bitcoin. Silk Road, regarded as the first dark marketplace, launched in 2011 and mostly sold drugs. Shut down by the FBI in 2013, it was followed by tens of dark marketplaces which also traded in weapons, fake IDs and stolen credit cards.

In research carried out with colleagues in the UK, US and Denmark, part-funded by The Alan Turing Institutes Economic data science programme, we looked at what happensafter a dark marketplace is shut down by a police raid or an exit scam(where the moderators of a marketplace suddenly close the website and disappear with the usersfunds). We focused on migrating users, who move their trading activity to a different marketplace after a closure.

We found that most users (on average, 66%)moved their activity to a single marketplace (typically the one with the highest amount of trading). User migration happened within a few days, possibly coordinated via adiscussion forumsuch as Reddit or Dread, and the overall amount of trading across the marketplaces quickly recovered. So although individual marketplaces can be fragile, with participants regularly making large losses due to scams and shutdowns (just last week, a huge marketplace called DarkMarket was taken offline in aninternational operation involving the UKs National Crime Agency), this coordinated user migration guarantees the marketplaces overall resilience, so that new ones continue to flourish.

This has striking parallels with whats currently happening on social media.

The fractured web

Just as Silk Road was pivotal in sparking illicit online trade, Facebook and Twitter were the seeds of social networking. They enabled faraway individuals with shared interests to meet and start a conversation. Their centralised nature was a key feature. Users were able to discover communities that they did not know they belonged to: crowds of like-minded souls available to communicate with 24/7.

But we are now witnessing the evolution of a new, more fragmented social media ecosystem. When one platform however big experiences censorship or a shutdown, users are quick to coordinate their migration to another platform.

In the dark web, after a closure, users tend to migrate to the same place. The same is true of the social web, with user migration driven by like-mindedness on specific themes, chiefly politics. We are familiar with echo chambers developing within one platform, where users are presented with content and opinions that agree with and reinforce their own belief systems. Soon, we might see these echo chambers each developing their own, individual platform.

What does all this mean for social giants such as Facebook and Twitter? Our research has shown that dark web communities have a remarkable resilience, even when threatened with frequent shutdowns. If the same is true of the emerging constellation of alternative social networks, then we might see a shift in power away from the bigger platforms as they lose users permanently to the smaller ones. The increasing number of platforms, and the ability of users to coordinate mass migrations, will make it harder than ever for regulators to keep track of the content being posted online. What this will mean for the influence of controversial users such as Trump remains to be seen.

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While many people probably take to Google to search for the latest news, social media has been playing a bigger role in bringing news, both real and fake, to even more people. Of course, this has also brought them under more scrutiny because of the consequences for the news industry in general, particularly when page views, ads, and profits are concerned. Facebook seems to suggest that it is offering the better option for all parties involved as it rolls out Facebook News outside the US for the first time.

In a nutshell, Facebook News is a relatively new section in its app that is, well, all about news. Instead of a simple list of search results, it offers a serving of daily Top Stories curated by humans and News Sections that invite users to dig deeper into topics. Of course, theres also the promise of complete control as well as personalization options on what users want or do not want to follow.

The features of Facebook News almost comes second to what the social networking giant is really proud of, striking business deals with news outlets and publishers in the UK. In addition to its existing partners like The Guardian, The Economist, and The Independent, among others, Facebook has also added Channel 4 News, Daily Mail Group, and Financial Times to its roster, among others.

Facebook wants to remind everyone that it has been partnering with news organizations for many years and has been trying to work out a sustainable business model in the age of the Internet. In fact, this infusion from Facebook is expected to boost the local news industry, especially during these trying times. Facebook even says it is continuing not only to invest more in news but also to pay publishers for more content in more countries.

This almost sounds like a subtle jab at Googles current situation regarding its own news offering in other countries, particularly in the European Union, which the UK is no longer part of, and Australia. Google has recently agreed to pay news publishers in France but has threatened to makes Google News unavailable in Australia should the government regulatory body push its demands.

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