Kim van Sparrentak @kimvsparrentak@respublicae.eu

Dit is een bedreiging voor onze democratie en moet stoppen. Het eerste wat we moeten doen is een stop zetten op polariserende algoritmen. Zo komen de meest extreme tweets niet meer automatisch bovenaan in je tijdlijn.

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Twitter is een platform dat polariseert en ons met algoritmen uit elkaar drijft. Een platform dat verdient aan online haat, ophef en desinformatie promoot. De haat tegen vooral vrouwen van kleur en LHBTIQA+'ers is al enorm, net als haat tegen politici, journalisten en activisten.

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Zorgelijk: Musk doet alsof online polarisatie bestaat uit extreemlinkse en extreemrechtse echokamers. Maar online polarisatie is niet iets van 'both sides': alle onderzoeken wijzen uit dat juist op Twitter vooral de extreemrechtse haat en complottheorieen enorm worden versterkt.

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Dat Twitter onder onze strenge Europese wetgeving valt, betekent dat we in de EU straks in ieder geval beter tegen fratsen van techmiljardairs zijn beschermd dan in de VS.

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Maar dankzij de #DSA mag er in ieder geval niet meer getarget worden op gevoelige persoonlijke data, zoals seksuele oriëntatie of religie en moeten grote platforms transparant zijn over wat ze wel en niet toelaten online.

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Musk zegt dat hij Twitter koopt uit liefdadigheid, maar tegelijkertijd wil hij hypergepersonaliseerde advertenties blijven aanbieden. Zo blijft #ophef onderdeel van het verdienmodel.

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#Musk 🧵
Het slechte nieuws is dat een miljardair een platform dat ontzettend belangrijk is geworden in het publieke debat zomaar kan kopen. Het goede nieuws is dat de Europese platformregels #DSA ook gewoon voor Elon Musk gelden!

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RT @ojala_annika: Another important milestone for #LGBTIQ human rights today 🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺

A LIBE-ENVI hearing on depathologisation of #transgender and #nonbinary persons is taking place at the European Parliament.

This is *the first time* that depathologisation is front and centre in an EP hearing.

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'The expansive growth of short-term holiday rental in cities and popular tourist destinations is extracting housing from the market, driving up prices and has a negative impact on the liveability of European cities.'

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/expectations-high-over-delayed-eu-proposal-on-short-term-rentals/

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Activist Brahim Ben Ali takes the floor and delivers a powerful speech: “You can say that these were the old days of Uber, that Uber has changed, but it still defends profits against rights. When we are worn out, we are being disposed like the wheels of a car." #UberFiles

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“It was quite surreal to have the Amsterdam police coming for us, whilst we were being welcomed with open arms by the Dutch policy-makers with attractive corporate and profit tax rates.” - #UberFiles whistleblower Mark MacGann.

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“Uber is not just an app to go around your city, it is an unprecedented mash. Once you have their data, you can sell people anything.” MacGann says Uber even accessed people’s Spotify data and that they could track drivers anywhere they went, whether they were online or offline.

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On asking if he had blown the whistle before, MacGann says: “In September 2021 I wrote to this Committee. I had some remorse. I understand mailboxes are full, but I wrote to this Committee [EMPL] twice, asking to be heard. I got no response." #UberFiles

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Mark MacGann: “At Uber, we paid private detectives to investigate taxi unions. At the time we dug through people’s trash. When we found out about workers to organize, or God forbid, unionize that is when Uber realised that they needed to keep a lid on workers asking for rights.”

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Mark MacGann: "Fake identities were created by Uber to monitor what organizing drivers were planning." #UberFiles

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#UberFiles whistleblower Mark MacGann: “As taxi drivers took the streets, we told our drivers: ignore them. When politicians wanted to stop us, we co-opted them. We weaponised our drivers, and we weaponised our customers. Our mantra was: do whatever it takes: Uber-on”

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#UberFiles whistleblower Mark MacGann: "When I was at Uber, we paid for academics to produce skewed datasets that would support Uber’s position."

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Mark MacGann: “We told drivers they could make a decent living, be their own boss. It turned out we were selling a lie. That was never going to happen. For this business model to succeed someone had to suffer."

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The hearing will start at 16:30 and can be followed through this link: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-employment-and-social-affairs_20221025-1430-COMMITTEE-EMPL

But of course, my team and I will update you through Twitter as well!

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As former top lobbyist, MacGann had access to over 120,000 internal documents, which even for the best journalists is impossible to completely process. What we have heard so far, could easily be just the tip of the iceberg.

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