Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were “automated or from bots”
Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. LinkedIn: Michael Jackson . B...
An investigation into OnlyFans owner Leo Radvinsky, who has attracted law enforcement scrutiny amid reports of wage theft and potential underage sexual activity
The first digital trace of Leo Radvinsky dates back to 1997 when Radvinsky, then just 15-years-old, acted as a webmaster … Tweets: @scottmstedman , @labarbarapalmer , @scottmstedman , @cindygallop , a...
Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy
Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @folletto , @protocol , @joyehoward , @runasand , @tri...
Leaked docs: TikTok told moderators to suppress posts from those deemed “ugly”, poor, or disabled, and censor political speech in livestreams, to attract users
The makers of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world … Tweets: @theintercept , @intothecrevasse , @cindygallop , @sarahemclaugh , @rose_catb , and @s...
While Amazon's board has become more diverse, as of January, 44 of 48 execs in Amazon's upper ranks were reportedly men and zero VPs were African-American
Maya Kosoff / OneZero : Tweets: @dlberes , @medium , @cindygallop , @cindygallop , @jeremykonyndyk , and @mvzelenks Tweets: Damon Beres / @dlberes : .@mekosoff drops the hammer on Amazon's mostly whi...
Investigation finds ~70 “creepshot” Tumblr blogs including one with ~11K followers and 53K+ interactions; Tumblr hasn't removed any blogs found in investigation
After Reddit famously banned the creepshots sub-reddit, which shared non-consensual, revealing photos of women … Tweets: @cindygallop , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @josephf...
How Uber's hard-charging corporate culture left employees drained, according to interviews with over two dozen sources
After a highly publicized corporate meltdown this spring, Uber is working to repair a culture employees and observers say is aggressive, cutthroat, and demanding. Tweets: @elcush , @cindygallop , @_am...