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Davey Alba
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reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal / @daveyalba@mastodon.social
New Yorkbloomberg.com/authors/AVvdlC…Joined April 2008

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🎉🥳🎊 So excited to work with , can’t wait to see her kill it on this beat
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Thrilled to welcome @Aishacounts to the Bloomberg @technology team! She crushed it at Protocol (RIP) and will join our stellar team (@sarahfrier, @KurtWagner8 @alexbarinka) reporting on all the social media companies.
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Trump decision is out. FB says they will unsuspend, “with new guardrails”
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Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts With New Guardrails to Deter Repeat Offenses about.fb.com/news/2023/01/t
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i am once again asking whether there is a workaround to getting more inMail credits on LinkedIn than the allotted 15/month :(
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Gwen and I were on a union committee together — jurisdiction — challenging management on the inclusion of jobs as more and more people were becoming excluded at The Times. Gwen was wonderful, dedicated, kind. I wish I knew her better and I will miss her.
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I spent the last 24 hours talking to friends, family and colleagues of my friend Gwen. I was honored to do it, and crushed that I had to. nytimes.com/2023/01/21/spo
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Some of those who had been laid off didn’t realize anything was amiss until they tried to log into corporate systems. Those who remained turned to Gchat to see if their friends were still on board. The story of a chaotic day inside Google, w/ :
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❤️ - so glad for you!
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Here at Rappler office celebrating with Nobel Laureate and Rappler CEO @mariaressa. The Philippines' Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) acquitted Ressa of four charges of tax evasion earlier today. Congratulations, Maria! @rapplerdotcom
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This account was locked—per Twitter—for "Violating our rules against posting or sharing privately produced/distributed intimate media of someone without their express consent." It looks like at Musk-owned Twitter, you're in jeopardy if you share pics/imagery of Musk-owned SpaceX
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So what Twitter Rule does this violate now... no videos of rocket landings on Twitter?
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It's been nearly 24 hours since our @SpaceflightNow account was locked by Twitter while we covered a SpaceX launch yesterday. We have appealed to @TwitterSupport. Our account was locked immediately after sending this tweet, which included a replay of the rocket landing.
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It's unfortunate to see some of the most respected venues in journalism taking this turn—exceptionalizing individuals and groups who advocate for greater public health protections and portraying them as deviant, immature, countercultural, Marxists, etc. 1/
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2022 was the year the mainstream took the rise of extremism in gaming seriously–an issue I’m deeply passionate about covering. I won’t post every story on it, but want to shout out my collab with the brilliant --the first to dive deep into this:
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Before the war, Mariupol was a bustling city of half a million people. An unknown number died in the siege, and more still are missing. For our final investigation of the year, we wanted to show the reality of occupied Mariupol and those who disappeared:
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