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William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023

The Reaction Economy
William Davies · The Reaction Economy · LRB 2 March 2023 by William Davies (London Review of Books)

The quest for authentic joy or shock – or best of all, joy and shock at the same time – which drives reaction…

It is an infernal riddle of digital culture that ‘authenticity’ is constantly breeding its opposite: the ‘spontaneous’ event that proves to be no such thing, the ‘surprise’ that turns out to be staged, the emotional outburst that has been practised. TikTok is awash with apparently ‘authentic’ clips of humorous reactions (often based on pranks), the…

Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term | Media Matters for America

Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur
Meta has profited from over 200 ads using the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur, even though the platform claims it prohibits the term (Media Matters for America)

Meta confirmed last July that use of the word “groomer” to baselessly describe LGBTQ people violates its hate speech policies, but Media Matters has identified over 200 ads that Meta has profited from that contain the harmful messaging — including 63 new ads that garnered nearly 1 million impressions.

 Right-wing media’s misuse of the term “groomer” has helped fuel a recent rise in anti-LGBTQ sentiment and coincided with a conservative push to enact legislation that strips away the rights of LGBTQ people, especially transgender people. Meta publicly confirmed in July that, as The Daily Dot explained, “baselessly calling LGBTQ people or the community ‘groomers’…

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

Fake people with fake cookies and fake social-media accounts, fake-moving their fake cursors, fake-clicking on fake websites
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. by Max Read (Intelligencer)

Some were sent to browse the internet to gather tracking cookies from other websites, just as a human visitor would have done through regular behavior. Fake people with fake cookies and fake social-media accounts, fake-moving their fake cursors, fake-clicking on fake websites — the fraudsters had essentially created a simulacrum of the internet, where the only real things were the ads.

How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was…

Anti-government [Actually Anti Fascist] protests continue – Globes

Protests Against Fascism in Israel 2023
Anti-government protests continue by Nitsan Shafir (Globes)

Nobel laureate Prof. Avram Hershko told a rally in Haifa: There will be no-one to protect the citizen from the tyranny of the regime.

Speaking in Haifa, Prof. Avram Hershko, a Nobel prizewinner for chemistry, said, “We must stop the madness. I can no longer stand aside, I must now express my opinion. What is happening here is an attempt to turn Israel from a democracy into tyranny, a dictatorship. There will be no-one to protect the citizen from…

Tens of Thousands of Israelis Set to Protest Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup for Seventh Consecutive Week – Israel News – Haaretz.com

Israelis Protest Attempted Fascist Coup Against Israeli Justices
Tens of thousands of Israelis set to protest Netanyahu’s judicial coup for seventh consecutive week (Haaretz)

Demonstrations are planned for dozens of cities across Israel, with the main rally taking place in central Tel Aviv. On Monday, thousands of Israelis will once again descend on the Knesset

Protests against the Netanyahu-led government’s judicial overhaul are slated to resume Saturday night in dozens of locations around Israel, including in the cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, and Be’er Sheva. The main rally will take place for the fifth time at Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street, starting at 7 P.M.Due to the expected crowds, Israel…

Moving From Ally to Accomplice in the Anti-Racist Fight: An Afrozilla Resource List

Tyre Nichols
Moving From Ally to Accomplice in the Anti-Racist Fight: An Afrozilla Resource List (Pocket)

Educate yourself on the fight against racism with this resource list compiled by Afrozilla—the diverse, global community of Black Mozilla employees.

If you are an accomplice in the fight against racism, now is also the time to consider how you show up in solidarity. Now is not the time for “allyship,” a concept that makes it easy to separate your freedom from ours. Today and every day, we need co-conspirators in the fight, people who are…

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