“社交媒体巨头正在让数百万人沉默，”总统今天在他的社交媒体巨头选择中提到我们不能这样做，即使这意味着我们必须继续听到像CNN这样的假新闻，因为CNN的收视率已经严重下降。人们必须在没有审查的情况下找出什么是真实的，什么不是！”

这是特朗普总统最近一场将Facebook、Twitter和其他平台描述为敌视保守派声音的运动的一部分。上个月，他猛烈抨击“影子禁令”。8月18日，当他认为：

Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/C***ervative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opini*** of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others…….

你是个聪明人，我不会浪费你的时间解释为什么这是胡说八道(但特朗普的推特在一个有趣的时刻击中了我——推特最近让我感到异乎寻常的沉默。每天我的时间线上的推文通常都会很快地流下来，但这些推文已经慢下来了，我一直在想为什么。

我昨天在推特上发了这条消息，指出尽管我跟踪的人比三年前多了50%，但在过去一个月里，我的订阅速度已经慢到了爬行的程度。我从许多有同样想法的人那里得到了回音。那么，为什么最近服务感觉如此安静？

一方面，现在是八月。新闻周期是季节性的，有很多人——这是他们的功劳暑假期间从互联网上抽时间。这几乎可以肯定地解释部分下降的原因。

你也可以通过观察推特的显著下降来解释这一点：根据推特最近的盈利报告，该公司在过去一个季度每月减少了300万用户。虽然该公司从未透露过每日使用量，但似乎很多曾经是每日或每周用户的人现在的登录次数比以前少了。

但似乎也有某种更广泛的不适，即使是在著名的推特记者阶层中我承认，我只是为了宣传自己的作品而停止了推特，即便如此，我也不总是这么做，”我的朋友大卫·特纳（David Turner）通过电子邮件告诉我，他每周都会撰写一份关于流媒体音乐产业的优秀时事通讯

但我最喜欢的理论涉及总统本人。自特朗普当选以来，在美国推特上没有一个故事像总统那样占据主导地位。每一天都会带来新的愤怒或危机或法律发展。每一个故事都会立即产生一个完整的tweet风暴和记录。一个对各种故事都开放的平台，常常会让人觉得它是专门为一个故事而设的。

因此，如果有数百万人在任何地方沉默，那肯定不是MAGA巨魔和抵抗组织。越来越多的人感觉好像是其他人。并不是因为他们无法回应——而是因为在近两年的时间里，几乎任何他们可以想到的推特内容都感觉完全离题了。

民主

克里姆林宫消息来源保持沉默，使中情局对普京的中期选举计划一无所知

朱利安•E•克林顿说，由于许多原因，我们所掌握的关于俄罗斯可能会采取哪些措施**预中期选举的信息比2016年少得多。巴恩斯和马修·罗森伯格报道：

Technology companies and political campaigns in recent weeks have detected a plethora of political interference efforts originating overseas, including hacks of Republican think tanks and fake liberal grass-roots organizati*** created on Facebook. Senior intelligence officials, including Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, have warned that Russians are intent on subverting American democratic instituti***.

But American intelligence agencies have not been able to say precisely what are Mr. Putin’s intenti***: He could be trying to tilt the midterm electi***, simply sow chaos or generally undermine trust in the democratic process.

科技公司正在举行秘密会议，准备2018年选举战略

凯文·科利尔（Kevin Collier）报道说，技术平台正在讨论如何防止协调干扰。这是个好消息：

Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday to share their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm electi***.

Last week, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to gather at Twitter’s headquarters in downtown San Francisco, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.

Facebook删除了它认为与俄罗斯英特尔有关的叙利亚战争网页，Twitter则将其保持在线

Donie O'Sullivan还有一个例子，Twitter的平台调节团队就像其他平台的慢动作版本：

The YouTube page associated with the group has also been removed, but on Thursday, the group’s Twitter account remained active, raising new questi*** about the level of coordination among social media platforms as they combat state-sp***ored information warfare.

志愿者在Reddit上发现了伊朗的宣传努力，但他们的警告被忽视了

本·柯林斯报道，一年前，一群Redditor发现了本周公布的伊朗宣传活动，但Reddit却忽视了这些活动。一方面，这表明需要从平台获得更好的****。另一方面，Redditor经常会指向一堆玉米棒子，宣布它是爆炸案的头号嫌疑人。所以，这里是岩石和坚硬的地方。

Facebook虚假新闻感染的治疗方法？可能是这些女人

琼E。索尔斯曼介绍了Facebook上的新闻产品和新闻合作团队。这是一篇很好的文章，重点介绍了该公司最优秀的两位记者倡导者，亚历克斯·哈迪曼和坎贝尔·布朗。它的这些引语值得更多的关注：

Brown and Hardiman would argue that Facebook isn’t refusing its editorial role anymore.

The news teams decided their mission “meant actually having an opinion, taking resp***ibility for our content, and deciding that we were going to do a lot to actively prioritize quality journali**,” Hardiman says.

Brown calls it “a big step for Facebook,” this acknowledgment that Facebook must define quality news and promote it.

Infowars表示，YouTube禁令将使其更加强大。事实上，它被压碎了。

如果去平台化是好的呢？Will Sommer为我们提供了一些数据点：

Two weeks later, though, the Infowars app is set to slip out of the top 30 news apps, and Infowars is nowhere near replacing its lost YouTube viewership.

Infowars currently hosts its videos on Real.Video, a niche video hosting site that promises that content on the platform is “protected under free speech” and prominently features other channels promoting militias or dubious nutrition ideas. Infowars videos on Real.Video regularly receive only a few hundred or thousand views.

“我们收到Facebook的指示，不要触碰内阁部长的职位”

一对夫妇根据匈牙利一位Facebook内容版主的采访向我发送了这个故事。这是关于一位反移民政客的故事，他关于这个话题的视频帖子因为违反Facebook内容政策而被删除，但后来又因为有新闻价值而被恢复(在某种程度上，这是该国正在进行的政治辩论的主题，这似乎是公平的。）无论如何，最新的亮点是主持人（此处代号为“Zoltan”）说Facebook介入是为了主动阻止主持人对该政客未来的帖子采取行动：

After we took Lazar’s video down, and they reinstated it above our paygrade, we received instructi*** not to touch any of his posts, along with posts of the pro-government news portal Orgio.hu, but to forward all reports concerning these straight to the Irish Facebook headquarters.

在别处

亚马逊项目中的仓库工人在推特上对工作条件发表了积极的评论

亚马逊在其履行中心的员工待遇问题上经常面临负面的新闻报道。本月，一个显然合法的员工群体创建了推特账户——得到了公司的许可和鼓励——来谈论他们有多么热爱自己的工作。今天是马特·戴：

Identified by first names and “Amazon FC Ambassador,” they each opened a Twitter account this month, are unfailingly polite, and pepper emojis into conversati*** about the generosity of their benefits packages and job satisfaction at Amazon’s fulfillment centers, the company’s term for its sprawling warehouses.

In a typical interaction, one non-Amazon Twitter user opined that “the way Amazon treats its workers is shameful,” and linked to a news article about retailers that compete with Amazon.

Cindi, an Amazon “ambassador” from Etna, Ohio, replied with information about her work breaks.

“The way Amazon treats its employees is GREAT, we work hard, have fun and are always ready to make history,” she posted. “We have several break rooms throughout the facilities, I get two 30 mins breaks through my shift which is great.”

谷歌AMP击败了Facebook即时文章，但出版商开始质疑AMP的好处

露西亚·摩西（Lucia Moses）报告称，大多数出版商都没有看到谷歌AMP带来的经济效益：

“AMP had a lot of hype and promise,” said Chris Breaux, director of data science at Chartbeat. “It’s really good for users in providing a c***istent experience in terms of page-load time. The real question is, do you see more traffic than you would have if you didn’t do the implementation? The answer for two-thirds of publishers is, no.”

发射

Facebook的Instagram测试大学社区功能

Instagram正在**一部新剧，成为2021届大学生的官方团体聊天节目，Sara Selinas和Michele Castillo报道：

Instagram users are prompted to join a college community and “connect with other students.” Opting in adds a user’s university and graduating year — selected by the user from predetermined opti*** — to their profile and grants access to class-based lists of other students who’ve opted into the community.

You can direct message or watch a user’s public Story directly from the community lists.

Facebook测试“共同点”标签，试图连接非好友

斯马特·亨特·沃克推测，这是一种伪装的礼貌措施：一旦你看到自己有一个家乡和一支喜爱的运动队，你就不太可能在评论中对某人指手画脚。无论如何，这是Rich Nieva：

Here’s how it works: When you read through a public conversation – like on a brand or publisher page – Facebook will highlight things you have in common with non-friends who have left comments. So, under someone’s name, you might see a label that says “You both went to the University of Virginia,” or that you’re both from Phoenix.

Other things the label might highlight: if you’re both a part of the same public Facebook group, or if you work for the same company, but are not Facebook friends. The company said the idea is to spark connecti*** people might otherwise pass over.

Inky的图书推荐应用程序可以帮助你找到新的读物

亚马逊在五年前收购了Goodreads，社交图书阅读市场基本上完全由它自己掌控。正如在这些案例中经常发生的那样，该公司在收购方面基本上什么都没做，给那些好斗的新贵留下了空间。我不会把风险投资投入到一个新的社交阅读应用程序中，但我绝对会在周末下载它。

拿

《华尔街日报》的一位数据研究员认为申请WhatsApp研究资助的过程受到了技术问题的影响：

最后。。。

这个保安把他所有的屁都拍了六个月，然后就走红了

保罗·布拉特：《商场警察》是一部2009年出人意料的糟糕电影，凯文·詹姆斯饰演一名在商场工作的警察。但电影中的任何内容都无法让我们为Instagram账户@PaulFlart做好准备，在该账户中，创作者和明星自己穿着保安制服放屁：

The internet’s next viral star is a security guard at a Florida hospital who spent the last six months publicly logging his sonically-perfect farts on Instagram. Now the 31-year-old is poised to turn his flash-in-the-bedpan success into a lucrative brand that can be summed up by his Instagram bio: The Fart Authority.

His first name is Doug (he declined to give VICE his last name, or the name of the hospital), but the Kevin James-looking everyman is known on his 20,000 follower-strong Instagram account as Paul Flart, a stinky offshoot of mall cop Paul Blart. On Wednesday, a video compilation of his most memorable ass clappers earned over 374,000 views after shooting to the top of Reddit’s r/videos forum. Now he has followers from all over the world. “It transcends all languages. There’s no translation necessary, it’s just funny,” he told VICE over the phone.

道格本周不可避免地被解雇了。但要有希望：他有一个帕特龙。互联网很神奇，祝你周末愉快。

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