Some news: I’m joining the Bloomberg team! I’ll be writing about social media companies including Twitter and Meta. I start next month and will be moving to SF for the role. Stayed tuned for more!
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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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i feel like twitter's font has become slightly different. am i losing my mind?
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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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Google is now a ubiquitous presence in the ad tech industry, but that wasn't always a foregone conclusion.
A look back at Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, which the DOJ argues initiated the "march to monopoly," with :
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DOJ's new Google case has been assigned to Judge Leonie Brinkema.
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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.
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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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They were told they had lost their jobs via the same products they helped build. A look inside Google amid the layoffs today by and .
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And here is Jeff Dean's full memo to Google Research staffers 👇
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Scoop w/ : Google has also restructured parts of its treasured AI division — it was not immune to Alphabet's 12,000 layoffs today
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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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🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found
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🚨MASSIVE NEW STUDY ON DIGITAL/FB POLITICAL AD EFFECTS 🚨 in from Minali Aggarwal, , , , Kelly Zhang, , Andrew Beasly, Harry Hantman, Sylvan Zheng!
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Ungated: solomonmg.github.io/pdf/acronymNHB
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New: More Twitter layoffs. This time hitting the Trust and Safety team that handles content moderation. Employees were alerted Friday night.
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We also got a rare response from Twitter—we haven't heard from them in weeks. It no longer has a comms dept.
Ella Irwin, Twitter's new head of Trust and Safety, confirmed the cuts but denied they targeted some areas we report on.
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The cuts happened last night. At least a dozen more people were slashed from Twitter Trust & Safety, including the relatively new head of its APAC region + workers in misinfo policy, global appeals and state media.
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NEW: Twitter has made deeper cuts into its already radically diminished Trust and Safety team handling global content moderation + its Site Policy team that handles hate speech and harassment. w/
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From , evidence that Twitter is banning activists on Musk's orders washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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this has apparently happened before? everything is so confusing on this platform now
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It appears as if was just unlocked, exactly 24 hours after we attempted to post this tweet.
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Watch as a 15-story rocket completes its supersonic descent back to Cape Canaveral this morning. The on-target return to Landing Zone 1 marked the 15th flight to space for SpaceX's Falcon 9 Booster No. 1060. youtube.com/watch?v=2OWloj
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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 been nearly 24 hours since our account was locked by Twitter while we covered a SpaceX launch yesterday.
We have appealed to . Our account was locked immediately after sending this tweet, which included a replay of the rocket landing.
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No more tweets from our account this morning as our account has been locked by Twitter for violating unspecified rules while covering a launch. Sorry folks.
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I wish I could ask Twitter why this account was suspended exactly, but they no longer have a media communications department.
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This random anon account has been suspended from Twitter. From the web cached version of its old page, it sure looks like its “violation” amounts to repeatedly posting anti-Elon tweets
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I deleted a tweet mocking Andrew Tate's arrest because these details of the horrific crimes he is accused of make it clear that this is not a funny story, but a deeply disturbing one for his victims diicot.ro/mass-media/382
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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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(3/3) Further context on Metric Media >>> nytimes.com/2020/10/18/tec
Support local reporting like + .
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The out-of-state owners of the Mount Vernon News used a photo of deputies from Knox County, Tenn. instead of Knox County, Ohio in an article on a justified shooting. Pic even had Tenn. flag. Reporters used to have such deep relationships w/ law enforcement here. Scary & sad. 1/3
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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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Musk - the owner of this platform with the largest following on Twitter - is boosting an enduring Russian propaganda & disinformation campaign into nearly all Twitter feeds tonight.
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