I while ago I set up a private @MastodonProject instance and got into the Fediverse. It has this cool feeling of a thing that is not discovered by the masses. Sometimes I even post something, here is a thread on social media

Thanks!.

Are these accounts present in the October 2018 IRA dataset? Is it still correct to say that the accounts in the IRA dataset are likely to be associated with the IRA?.

.@CarlosMonjeJr Hi! The 2018 US Midterm Elections Review mentions that Twitter was contacted by an external researcher about 228 misidentified accounts. Do you know whether the details on how these accounts were identified are publicly available? Who contacted you?.

And, you know, I don't miss Twitter at all. I don't plan to have the twitter client on my recently factory reset phone.

Putting aside what Zuckerberg says at the grilling sessions, why is he agrees to them? He doesn't provide real answers, the concerned user's are not going to change their mind, maybe even get more sceptical. Who does he target at with the appearance and vague idealised answers?.

Instagram feels as a series of trailer in a cinema before the main movie, mostly because of ads and algorithmic order of posts.

RT @Logic_Cognition: 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information - ESSLLI 2019.5-16 August, 2019, Riga, Latvia. https://….

RT @evgenymorozov: My long piece on what could - and should - be done after the Facebook debacle .

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RT @yoavgo: This video describing "cambridge analytica"'s work in the Trump campaign is very much worth watching.

RT @abenitezburraco: Phonemic correspondences of grapheme <j> in languages spoken in Europe

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