Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Facebook's fraud files; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/f… #Pluralistic 1/
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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK retweeted
Lees het goed, willingly and knowingly oplichting op je platform zetten..
A blockbuster Reuters report by Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked internal documents that reveal that: 10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because... 1/
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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK retweeted
Facebook’s fraud files pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/f… " ...in other words, fraudulent ads are more profitable for Meta than non-scam ads."
A blockbuster Reuters report by Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked internal documents that reveal that: 10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because... 1/
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Kubeflex House (1969-70) in Trapholt, Denmark, by Arne Jacobsen & Otto Weitling. Photo by Sarah Buthmann. germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.c…
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The Dream Drive-In, New Church, Virginia, 1950s vs today deadmotelsusa.com/post/79969…
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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK retweeted
Blows my mind! This imo happens when "winning, no matter what“ is your true religion.
Replying to @doctorow
Meta's own internal memos also acknowledge that they help scammers automatically target their most vulnerable users: if a user clicks on a scam, the automated ad-targeting system floods that user's feed with *more* scams. 9/
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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK retweeted
Ben Thompson and Michael Mortenson don't use the terminology of @doctorow's enshittification, but they explain why Google and Amazon are screwed in the age of AI answers unless they change their ways. stratechery.com/2025/an-inte…
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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK retweeted
Yet another illustration of why tech companies cannot be left to regulate themselves.
A blockbuster Reuters report by Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked internal documents that reveal that: 10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because... 1/
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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK retweeted
Replying to @doctorow
On the right--"Robin in Peril." Studied this closely in the schoolyard. Grade 3.
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New data obtained by ICIJ and @nytimes provides the most comprehensive account yet showing how AR-15 ammo made at an Army-owned plant turns up at crime scenes more often than casings from any other manufacturer. icij.org/news/2025/11/ar-15-…