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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's the only thing that would get them to think differently - if enough people care about that coverage and unsubscribe / downgrade.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you a paying subscriber of the Seattle Times?

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not saying I like it, but how do you think the world works? Seriously.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If they had more readers who cared about Sounders coverage they would have Sounders coverage

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

A statement from WIRED leadership.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Permanent starter right.... Right?

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Geeze you are peddling some fierce misinformation

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The "won't someone think of the LGBTQ+ teens" move while defending the company whose own internal research showed its algorithms harm those exact communities is really something.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The "won't someone think of the LGBTQ+ teens" move while defending the company whose own internal research showed its algorithms harm those exact communities is really something.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were found liable and must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that her addiction to the companies’ social media platforms caused her to suffer a mental health crisis, a jury said."

bloomberg.com

Meta, Google Found Liable in Social Media Addiction Case

Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google were found liable and must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who alleged that her addiction to the companies’ social media platforms caused her to suffe...

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Great verdict. Now is a great time to discuss the Algorithm Accountability Act.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Jury holds Meta and Google liable for role in young woman's mental health issues The jury also decided that their actions should trigger punitive damages - there will be a separate phase of the trial where the jury will decide what amount of damages are appropriate www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

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Jury holds Meta and Google liable for role in young woman's mental health issues

The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Meta and YouTube found negligent in LA social media trial

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is a great verdict for holding companies liable for creating services that harm people. Legislation like the Algorithm Accountability Act will be another important step.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

How do you process testimony from Arturo Bejar and the other documents that have come out in the case?

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I would be excited if we were on a path for this globally. I haven't seen evidence that we are

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

When we celebrate only the green production side, we make people feel like this is a solved problem

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My main point is that we are consuming more energy in aggregate rather than replacing. In order to make our climate collapse less bad, not only do we need to celebrate clean production but dramatically reduce fossil consumption.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I assume it was in the business plan

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

@nauerbach.com Thoughts on Chambliss NFL draft stock after this game?

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

@nauerbach.com Pula was right... The refs just want to be on TV

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Miami has to be like... Oh crap...

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

"Instead, let’s expand on a technique from the ACA: cap out-of-pocket costs based on income no matter where the person gets insurance. This cap can be used in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance so that no middle-class person would pay more than 10% of their income on health care costs."

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Instead, let’s expand on a technique from the ACA: cap out-of-pocket costs based on income no matter where the person gets insurance. This cap can be used in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance so that no middle-class person would pay more than 10% of their income on health care costs.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The Algorithm Accountability Act sponsored by Senator Kelly is a great approach here. I strongly encourage it

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Telling me you think I am wrong doesn't make my position wrong. They do have lawyers, and you can't say they will win all of these cases. Tobacco thought it would win all the cases until it didn't. You can also limit these liabilities until companies cross a specific size, so it is not existential.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Lawyers claim things all the time. Judges and juries sort it out. It's how our system works. I like how you are resorting to personal attacks and all caps YoU Are WrOnG!!!!! rather than addressing the issues. Really shameful TBH. Do you now think our system of courts works?

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Calling me stupid wouldn't count; I have been clear on that. Are you arguing that social media and the selection of content has no impact on people? Is there no situation where the algorithmic amplification of specific content causes harm? I can't imagine you would make that case.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If a bartender seeing someone extermely intoxicated and visibly in danger and continues to serve them drinks for profit, they are liable. The algrotithm is spotting pockets of people at risk and then serving them content directly related to fostering those harms. As for how do you know, in court.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Also, I have been in the rooms at Meta, and I can assure you that that talking point is used to help dissuade regulation that they don't want, not a true point of fact that "regulation kills competion"

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

As 230 stands today it subsidizes Meta and Google because they get to externalize the costs of their harms without having to invest in research to understand product safety or staff to improve the products.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Patently untrue. You conlflate hosting content with amplifying content. Compliance costs are real but you are wrong on who gets hit. It wouldn't stop a startup from from maximizing their product, but they would have to first use reasonable efforts to understand whether it destroys health.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

You are assuming that the law would regulate that content as opposed to the architecture. If we pass a law that says 'You cannot use engagement-based ranking to prioritize content known to cause psychological harm,' that doesn't ban a single story. It does require companies study harms and adjust.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

So then just get rid of all safety regulations for consumers and workers

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We already deal with duty of care expectations in the courts. You act like this doesn't exist in other parts of law

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

That's rhetoric. How exactly would a duty of care devastate social media?

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I'm adding a duty of care to 230, not repealing 230. Major difference.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I didn't say anything that suggests that

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

They already receive requests and don't delete material. Nothing in what I am saying is about the availability of content

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

That's not how a duty of care would work. Selective content or actions don't fall under duty of care. If the NYT saw that you paused on a story about suicide and then started delivering only papers on how to and encouraging you to commit suicide that would be the issue.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I don't think this is as absolute as you make it if you have an expectation for a duty of care. I think equating algorithmic amplification with editorial selection is a false equivalency. You know those aren't the same.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Add a duty of care provision for content platforms choose to amplify and let the courts sort it out. Amplification is a different thing than speech

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Mike it's not about 3rd party speech but what happens when content is selected and amplified by an algorithm that gives an illusion of approach. Many users aren't actually seeing speech but a highly manipulated version of speech.

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Both parties working hard to keep it that way

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Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

2026 the year of AI enshittification

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