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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

A genuinely dispiriting thing about covering sexual violence is how often the suffering of women and children is metabolized as political point-scoring or titillating entertainment.

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It’s amazing how much a woman behaving badly makes people think they have a hall pass to use the most sexist language and rhetoric they can think of

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/03/2025

Remembering an old post from a girl who was talkin w a guy on bumble or w/e and, when she said she did advocacy around infectious diseases, dude asked For or against the diseases? I see now that Robert F Kennedy Jr is the reason why you gotta ask such questions. That's a pro disease man right there

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

my number one piece of advice to people wanting to do a PhD is to pick a topic that makes you so. fucking. angry. truly incredible the level of motivation that unbridled rage can provide

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

YouTube/Google has written a letter to Jim Jordan best summarized as “Yes sir thank you Mr Jordan sir” It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it. In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.

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But that's not all. YouTube is making changes to its platform to prevent future censorship.
YouTube is committing to the American people that it will NEVER use outside so-called "fact-checkers" to censor speech.
No more telling Americans what to believe and not believe.
ist to other large platforms, YouTube has not operated a fact-check. ntifies and compensates fact-checking partners to produce content ion. YouTube has not and will not empower fact-checkers to take a tent across the Company's services.

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Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Dante’s lesser known Tenth circle of hell is writing the last 500 or so words of any given piece of work

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments. Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.

What Ezra means by "the right way," and what I meant expressing a similar line this morning, is that Kirk was operating within a liberal framework that was modeled on persuasion and included real, robust support for free speech. Obviously it's not an endorsement of the content.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This immediately sprang to mind when I heard the news (for obvious reasons given my recent book). I think Gamergate will be studied by historians (assuming we have any of those left in the future) as not just an inflection point, but a flashing red warning sign that people didn't want to see.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Sure does make it seem as if the president was participating in the organized sexual abuse of girl children.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025

! I've been banging this drum for months Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law' GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

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Republicans Have No Earthly Idea What “Due Process” Means

Under the Constitution, due process is a right. The Trump White House wants to make it a privilege instead.

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Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Maybe it’s the ~3 years I’ve spent analysing and writing about the online response to the Depp v Heard trial talking here, but I’m really not sure another series of Johnny Depp puff pieces is the journalism we need right now

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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🎤 A new episode of Read Them Sideways is now available with host @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social and @nedwatt.bsky.social, discussing Ned's new paper and the future of fact-checking on the back of Meta's policy changes. 🎤 open.spotify.com/episode/5FUI...

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Episode 26: The Art of the Platform Deal with Ned Watt

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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ten years ago today, Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2016 United States presidential election. To mark the occasion, the Read Them Sideways team came together to record a roundtable episode of 10 Years of Trumpism. open.spotify.com/episode/6PoX...

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Episode 27: Ten Years of Trumpism DMRC Roundtable

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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Congratulations to PhD candidate, @jiarut.bsky.social, for her two new articles in June! 🎉 The first is a solo authored paper, "Broadcasting your virtual self: Exploring the authenticity construction and subjectivity of VTubers in China" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/05/2025

they’re transvestigating the new pope

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 12/05/2025

Wonderful to see another excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student reach her final seminar milestone – @kkasianenko.bsky.social with a thesis on cosmopolitan responses to the Russian war on Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🫶

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them

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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Relevantly to International Trans Day of Visibility, the new Read Them Sideways episode discusses recent changes to the Meta hate speech policies, with a particular focus on transgender and queer people. Listen to hear @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social lend her expertise! open.spotify.com/episode/5Fhb...

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Episode 22: Meta hate speech policy changes with Lucinda Nelson

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’m also reminded of how perpetrators of sexual violence use claims of incompetence or confusion to get away with violence. It benefits fascists to keep their incompetent actors in the public eye for similar reasons. A lot of people believe you can only be evil if you do it on purpose.

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I’m already feeling deeply grateful to the renters who I have had the chance to interview so far - each one with such interesting stories and perspectives. If you’re a renter and you’ve got experience using ‘RentTech’, I’d love to speak with you too. More details and contact form here:

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The Machine-Readable Renter — Samantha Floreani

Participants needed! Are you a renter in Australia? Have you ever used tech to find and apply for a home, log maintenance, or pay rent? I want to speak with you!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

It should be recognized that society is still grappling with the cultural and policy implications of the rapidly shifting understanding of gender. There are some issues - such as participation in sports and appropriate medical care for minors - that remain fiercely debated, even by those who broadly support trans rights. There should be room for those conversations. But what shouldn't be debated is whether the government should target a group of Americans to be stripped of their freedom and dignity to move through the world as they choose. This is a campaign in which cruelty and humiliation seem to be the fundamental point.

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Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I ran a “bake your thesis” (or more accurately, “decorate a cupcake like your thesis”) competition with @lynrose.bsky.social at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social summer school this week and everyone smashed it! Here’s to more silly fun times ✨

A group of three people working at a bench with bowls and icing. They are smiling.

A photo of a group of people standing around a table of cupcakes.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/02/2025

This list is mostly Black women. It's clear that the entire anti-DEI project is just neo-segregation. It's the same reason they only targeted Black women at Harvard. They don't believe people of color or women should have any positions of power. www.aol.com/federal-heal...

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Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets'

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies.

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Amy Sargeant 🏳️‍⚧️ @amysargeant.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It’s going off outside Tim Nicholl’s office right now. The trans community will not accept these disgraceful attacks. This is the crowd at 9:30am off the back of one tweet late last night. More actions to come.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Defamation cases don’t always end in favor of the truth. Remember, Amber Heard lost one for saying “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” The response to the trial alone proved the veracity of her statement and she still lost.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A lot of people (especially but not limited to men) are very clear that they don’t think victims of sex crimes should be allowed to talk about it publicly unless they can win a criminal court case, which is exceedingly rare for sex crimes

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Read this whole thread re: #Meta's changes! I have a whole paper on how user reports can be gamed to silence marginalised voices and let me tell you: the move to focus on flags is not good, esp if coupled with not bothering about racist and transphobic abuse. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lucinda Nelson @lucinda-nelson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Here’s me being cranky about Meta, again: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Lucinda Nelson, a social media researcher at the Queensland University of Technology, said marginalised people, like those in the LGBTQIA+ community, needed more protection not less.
"What is the point of having rights when you don't uphold them when there's a threat to these marginalised populations?" Ms Nelson said.
"When trans rights and queer rights are under attack in political discourse, that's when they've chosen to pull away and reduce protections for these populations.

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"housing instability is a major barrier to people getting politically involved and having the capacity to wage organized resistance against systems of oppression for liberation" such a great interview with Kamau Walton on housing justice x prison abolition- criticalresistance.org/resources/is...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

If Anita Bryant started her whole shtick right now she’d have 2 million Twitter followers and get shoved onto everyone’s feeds with explicit support from politicians and tech leaders

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

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BREAKING NEWS: META AND MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVE LONG-STANDING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE SPEECH POLICIES AFTER ANNOUNCING END OF FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM | GLAAD

Meta Quietly Removes Major Sections of Hateful Conduct Policies Protecting LGBTQ People and Other Marginalized People GLAAD: “Zuckerberg’s removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate ...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

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Alex Monea @alexmonea.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New year, same old Meta. Great article from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. Always ambivalent about seeing the research from by book The Digital Closet (bit.ly/digitalcloset) continue to hold true. #LGBTQ #censorship #queerbooks www.usermag.co/p/instagram-...

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Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months

Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content"

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

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