🔮 Platforms & civics; AI chips; selling guns on Snapchat, blobology++ #232
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Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society
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Dept of the near future
📠Twitter, Facebook and YouTube clamped down on major disinformation efforts run by the Chinese government. Twitter alone had to tackle 200,000 rogue accounts, which were promoting misinformation about the Hong Kong protests. Twitter’s official note is here; follow-up with this review of Facebook and Twitter’s tackling of China’s d…