Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 22/05/2026This is a @bootsriley.bsky.social stan account now. 1171
Reposted by Sarah AmosBluesky @bsky.app · 30/01/2026In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25M to 42M users, we took actions to keep it welcoming, using proactive design to reduce toxic content by 79%. Our 2025 Transparency Report shares how we're building a safer platform while keeping a transparent and human-centered approach: bsky.social/about/blog/0...bsky.social2025 Transparency Report Overview - BlueskyIn 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25 million to 41 million users, we improved the trust and safety infrastructure to better enable our mission. Here's what that looks like in plain language. 4588060979
Reposted by Sarah AmosIntegrity Institute @integrity-inst.bsky.social · 28/01/2026🚩 Red Teaming Generative AI in Classrooms & Beyond Members #JenWeedon, @theodoraskeadas.bsky.social, & @sarah3amos.bsky.social show how red teaming can uncover risks in “technically safe” AI systems before they reach students. Originally published in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. 🔗 bit.ly/3MbgLJJ 132
Reposted by Sarah AmosJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/01/2026FYI, on the Minneapolis shooting video: Bluesky hasn't taken it down. It's been labeled as "graphic media" so that people can avoid it if they choose. You can change your personal settings on whether you see media labeled as graphic (or whether it appears with a warning) here: bsky.app/moderation 131270327
Reposted by Sarah AmosKit @kit.bsky.team · 19/11/2025This reporting update is really exciting. I've seen other socials where you quite literally need to have worked in Trust & Safety to understand how to accurately flag issues. Clearer reports = Better moderation + conversation 2386
Reposted by Sarah AmosMike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...blog.archive.orgEnd of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs 4803277612102
Reposted by Sarah AmosMelissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.) 5238931453
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025In light of the sudden .gov takedowns, this team’s work (and all the independent web archivists!) is crucial for preserving history 010
Reposted by Sarah AmosCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13 23768162745
Reposted by Sarah AmosCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I've been told that political appointees delivered orders to CDC staff yesterday to either: A) remove all references to “gender ideology” by 5pm today, OR B) take down your website. What is "gender ideology"? Not totally clear. Which could explain why so many sites are down. 1246894
Reposted by Sarah AmosCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far: 1. CDC Atlas 2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 3. HRSA Target 4. Language removed for LGBT work 5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index 771581592
Reposted by Sarah AmosCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | A new era of government censorship has dawnedDonald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really? 467105913654
Reposted by Sarah AmosRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Get ready for the return of “Pope Endorses Donald Trump” and other similar viral bullshit. This is part of the redefinition of “freedom of speech” to mean “freedom from moderation,” where any limit on algorithmic boosting or virality at all is “”censorship””. www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...platformer.newsMeta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United StatesThe company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down 28546125
Reposted by Sarah AmosKolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 13/01/2025It should not be this easy to find pages and content on HuggingFace that promote non-consensual deepfake pornography. All I had to do was search for 'undress' and 'nudify' to find these. This includes a space where you can nudify in-browser & promotions for other websites. 24710
Reposted by Sarah AmosKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team. 10360942017
Reposted by Sarah Amosrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/05/202311. Attempting to use a pure technology based solution to what is fundamentally a people problem has never once worked in all of history. 423570
Reposted by Sarah AmosMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/05/2023Twitter has decided to leave the EU's disinformation code, a voluntary pact that groups together the major social platforms where they agree not to spread disinformation. Just in time for 2024’s global collection of elections, in the US, UK, the EU, Ukraine, Russia, India, Mexico and Taiwan. 47834
Reposted by Sarah AmosHolden Foreman @holden.bsky.social · 03/05/2023Now that alt text is visible to sighted users, it's a good time to plug @alt-text.bsky.social. Tag the bot in a reply to a post that has one or more images without alt text, and then the bot uses OCR to extract the text and reply with the OCR'd text as alt text. (This only works for images of text.) 11224135
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 29/04/2023Apologies in advance for the earnestness, but I don’t think I’ve had this much fun on a social app in a looooong time. I’m liking / reply-guying and skeeting like it’s 2015. 0111
Reposted by Sarah AmosP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 29/04/2023the hellthreads are extended gutters and the gutters are full of shitposts and the accumulated filth of all their replies and hot takes will foam up about their waists and all the deranged will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper ‘No.’ 3426540
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 29/04/2023Ok, who’s gonna make the “Best of Bluesky” twitter account? 120
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 29/04/2023Instead of millennials “insisting” on work/life balance, try this headline instead: Workers Take (Less Than) Their Legally-Entitled Work Break to Do Free Advertising for Multinational Corporation artifact.news/s/3SyYKJ-17Fs= 030
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 29/04/2023I am shocked (in a good way) how quickly this small team shipped a valuable Trust and Safety feature after community feedback. Bravo @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com 2111
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 29/04/2023Trying to explain to people not on this app that Jack is getting Quote-Skeeted rn 000
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 26/04/2023Another beta that I am LOVING so far is Beeper. It combines all your messaging apps (iMessage, slack, IG, whatsapp etc.) into a *single* app. www.beeper.com Not an ad/not affiliated ... just a fan of streamlining! 110
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 26/04/2023Appreciate that Dark Mode was prioritized for beta ... feel less guilty for still scrolling instead of sleeping 000
Sarah Amos @sarah3amos.bsky.social · 26/04/2023Joining bluesky on the 1 year anniversary of A) me joining Twitter's Trust & Safety org, and also B) the news of that platform being sold to a certain "singular solution" 060
