#nickclegg — Public Fediverse posts
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British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/09/ai-nscale-raises-2bn-sheryl-sandberg-nick-clegg-board-value #TechnologySector #Business #AiArtificialIntelligence #Nvidia #TechnologyStartups #Technology #NickClegg #SherylSandberg #Politics #UkNews
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Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms
This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:
https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563
He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power.
*I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.
#facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms
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Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms
This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:
https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563
He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.
*I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.
#facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms
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Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms
This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:
https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563
He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.
*I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.
#facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms
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Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms
This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:
https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563
He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.
*I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.
#facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms
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Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms
This aggressive interview with an incredibly defensive Nick Clegg was fascinating as an instance of contemporary tech politics. I was particularly struck by how he explicitly invokes ‘techno-determinism’ to dismiss claims about social platforms generating politics and social harms:
https://youtu.be/KAYM1arUzXY?si=RlrfpreRLVNwSFPh&t=1563
He argues it’s “patronising” to claim that platforms have a significant influence because “people have agency”. There’s an obvious straw man here, in which claims about platform power are construed as people being cognitively hijacked by whatever they find in their feeds*, gets used to dismiss any claim about platform power. Likewise the claim that the technology you use has an “automatic effect” on what you think and believe.
*I do think some people basically believe this. It’s a stupid and dangerous position which we need to oppose.
#facebook #NickClegg #platformPower #platformisation #socialPlatforms
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#NickClegg, former Deputy Prime Minister and Meta executive, discusses his views on #socialmedia, #politics, and #SiliconValley culture. He believes social media empowers people but acknowledges its challenges. Clegg criticises the “#techbro” culture for its #machismo and #selfpity, contrasting it with his upbringing in a privileged but grounded family. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/facebook-nick-clegg-tech-bros-trump-leaving-silicon-valley?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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“Nick Clegg has sold almost $19m in Meta shares since joining Facebook in 2018. Former UK deputy prime minister, who still has about $21m worth.” So he should be able to pay his children’s university tuition fees OK! #StudentFees #NickClegg #LibDems
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Facebook’s hand-picked ‘oversight’ panel upholds Trump ban — for now - Facebook’s content decision review body, a quasi-external panel that’s been likene... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QFx22_zpnE0/ #facebookoversightboard #contentmoderation #freedomofspeech #alanrusbridger #markzuckerberg #oversightboard #donaldjtrump #unitedstates #donaldtrump #socialmedia #alexstamos #hatespeech #nickclegg #facebook #joebiden #policy #social #fob
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Facebook denies its algorithms are a problem, but launches a tool to more easily view a non-algorithmic News Feed - Following years of backlash over its algorithms and their ability to push people to more extreme con... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/SNK11BRSOE0/ #markzuckerberg #socialmedia #likebutton #nickclegg #facebook #newsfeed #social #apps #ceo
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Toothless: Facebook proposes a weak Oversight Board - Facebook’s internal “Supreme Court” can’t set precedents, can’t make decisions about Facebook Datin... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sGISGB-7CnY/ #facebookoversightboard #facebookpolicy #government #nickclegg #facebook #opinion #policy #social #apps
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Facebook makes another push to shape and define its own oversight - Facebook’s head of global spin and policy, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, will give a ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/boW-wJX75aU/ #onlinedisinformation #dataportability #markzuckerberg #damiancollins #europeanunion #unitedkingdom #northamerica #unitedstates #socialmedia #government #freespeech #hatespeech #nickclegg #facebook #privacy #europe #policy #social #berlin #china
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Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook “isn’t going to help” - With the look of someone betrayed, Facebook’s CEO has fired back at co-founder Chris Hughes and his... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/31V_6UZQzFQ/ #markzuckerberg #chrishughes #government #nickclegg #facebook #privacy #policy #social #drama #apps #tc
