“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
As previously covered in Freedom, cleaners at Facebook’s London offices have been organising against intensified workloads, and are now moving to ballot for strike action after one worker and union activist was unfairly dismissed. As the next step in their campaign, they’ve called for a “Cancel Facebook” protest, at 4pm on Friday November 26th, at
While Facebook has been in the news recently for their massive server crash, along with a number of other embarrassing stories connected to a whistleblower speaking out and leaking internal documents, their London offices are also the site of a much more old-fashioned class struggle. Cleaners at Facebook London have been organising through the grassroots
Recently Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he and his team are working on stopping political content from circulating within the platform in order, as he puts it, to “make sure that the communities that people connect with are healthy and positive” (advancing the technocratic logic of “blissful” life freed from political deliberation). This comes
As of yesterday a number of US sites have had their social media presences scrubbed by the Nasdaq giant on a flimsy pretext that they are promoting violence — it’s another reminder of our vulnerabilities online. Outside of our long-running Louis Further column Freedom tends to limit the amount of US-based content it runs, both
Heathrow spray-painters were denied defence of necessity, while weapons facility invaders are being treated as ‘terrorists’ ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Two climate protesters who sprayed Heathrow departure boards with orange paint last July face a retrial, after their jury yesterday failed to reach a majority decision.
The activist is accused of attacks on neo-Nazis at the February 2023 “Day of Honour” in Budapest ~ Rob Latchford ~ A court in Paris yesterday accepted antifascist Gino’s lawyers request for further information on the conditions of detention and the conduct of a possible trial in Hungary.
Catastrophic fires and racist attacks, climate denial and religious coercion—and Trump hasn’t even taken power yet ~ Louis Further ~ Next week—in contravention of Section 3 of the 14th amendment to the US constitution—the leader of the most powerful nation in the world will be a convicted felon, and someone who has evaded three other
Chatting about what’s happening in economics, tech and direct action with a US twist thanks to this week’s guest, James Birmingham.
FOIA request reveals Home Office attempted to change terms of reference, as campaigners warn of “impossibly tight schedule” for proper disclosure ~ Scott Harris ~ A Freedom of Information Act request reveals that Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman attempted to curtail the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
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