For reference, this is the same Martin Sellner whose work Anna Zeiter, CEO of W Social, posted admiration for, and when called out on it replied that people should be more open to "data-based" discussions. See the thread. When they wear MAGA hats, you know what you're seeing.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
Rupert Lowe on why he has signed the Save Europe Act petition: he wants tens of millions deported from Europe. It was initiated by Martin Sellner, the former neo-nazi holocaust denier who went on to found Generation Identity to campaign for mass remigration because of the great replacement theory.
Oct 31, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Bluesky COO Rose Wang On Building a Better Social Network
The Danger of Exaggerating the Political Importance of Social Media - Cal Newport
The Pew Research Center recently released a new study on American Twitter use. As Jennifer Rubin reported in the Washington Post, one of the most ... Read more
W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data
W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.
Elena Rossini đ (@_elena@mastodon.social)
đ¨ New post alert đ A deep dive into #WSocial with some fascinating findings: candid statements about their motives, a Greta Thunberg connection, potential AI plans (!!!) Why write about it again? I still had so many questions after publishing my first article. I spent 3 weeks watching every interview I could find and connecting the dots. I hope you'll enjoy this piece: đ : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-untold-story-about-w-social-unconventional-beginnings-strategic-pitches-conflicting-signals/ #blog #longread #privacy #DataMining #Europe
Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025. I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isnât necessarily due to LinkedInâs sparkling competence, of course. To the contrary, LinkedIn is the Gerald Ford of social networks: the normal one that was left standing as the Richard Nixons and the Spiro Agnews of social media imploded around them. As with Gerald Ford, with LinkedIn we know that weâre getting something a bit clumsy and boring, but (as with post-Watergate America!), weâre also getting something that isnât totally crookedâââand thatâs actually a bit of a relief.
revolution.social with @rabble
On Social Media and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
Split Reactions As someone who has publicly criticized the major social media platforms for years, Iâve become familiar with the common arguments surrounding this topic. ... Read more
Fact-checking an engagement drop on MAGA pages because of the Yandex data center strike | Joohn Choe
Zelenskyy tweet: https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2109602415397749044?s=20 Res Futura Data House tweet: https://x.com/Polityka_wSieci/status
Elena Rossini đ (@_elena@mastodon.social)
SCOOP: #WSocial is doctoring metrics on its homepage, inflating the number of comments on posts by prominent people on its network. I suppose a more accurate tagline for them should be "Trust your feed?" My article about it: "W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data" đ : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/ #blog #BigTech #EUBigTech #TEP #TrustedEuropeanPlatforms #TrustYourFeed
Discerning Audiences Through Like Buttons ¡ Issue 6.1, Winter 2024
Column Editorâs Note: The âlike buttonâ is a ubiquitous and infamous feature of social media platforms. âLikesâ ostensibly allow users to interact and engage with one another, but platform developers hope that data generated by usersâ likes allows them to model, predict and even manipulate both individual and collective affective states. This Mining the Past column by communication scholar Carina Albrecht explores the history of the like button from âLittle Annie,â developed at CBS in the mid-twentieth century, to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Throughout this history, researchers and tech developers hoped to make âsubjectivitiesââemotions, preferences, personalities, political orientationsâinto âobjectivitesâ; they sought to turn inner worlds into profitable data. Albrechtâs history reveals that the like button is best understood not as a passive recorder of preexisting affect and sentiment, but rather as a data technology that generated the emotive effects the button claimed to measure.
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlieâs Voice Rising, a popular Charlie Kirk fan account, is based in Eastern Europe (non-EU).One popular influencer wrote "wa...
Elena Rossini đ (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Dear Fedi friends, Apologies for another toot about #WSocial but I am genuinely shaking right now. The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu and its president Ursula von der Leyen have recently migrated their ATproto (Bluesky) accounts to W Social. I cannot fathom why they would pick a private enterprise whose leaders didn't even have ATproto accounts 3 months ago... and who are so open to having their users' data mined to train European AI models. My articles on them: đ : https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/ Wow. Just wow.
W Don't Have Time (@wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social)
"Trust community, not wealth" Holding power accountable on the open social web. https://woosh.link/wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social
Social media algorithms don't allow us to understand or control what we see online and why... until now! Top scholars @jonathanstray.com and @noupside.bsky.social are sharing @mysky.social, a tool that allows users to adjust their feedâs priorities and explains why certain posts appear over others.
đď¸đ˛ Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand
newpublic.substack.com@palle.eurosky.social just published a powerful exposĂŠ about the #WSocial "it's not a leak if we intentionally publish it" ID data controversy. I highly recommend you read it (it's in German, but you could use your browser's translation tool): metacheles.de/w-social-datenskandal/ #WIdentity #GDPR
W Social: Verifiziert heisst veroeffentlicht
www.metacheles.deâ ď¸ Big tech's privacy promises are misleading! đ¤ We sat down with Melanie Ensign, CEO of @discernibleinc.bsky.social and former communications lead for Facebook, Uber, AT&T, and DEF CON. In this interview she pulls back the curtain on how these large tech corporations actually approach privacy.
