How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $419M donation to US local and state election officials in 2020 has become a target of right-wing conspiracies
If Mark Zuckerberg could have imagined the worst possible outcome of his decision to insert himself into the 2020 election … Tweets: @justinhendrix , @ianclucas , @radicalalarmist , @teddyschleifer , ...
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
@photomatt, quoting Camus https://www.protocol.com/... While others go searching for “the decentralized web”, we'll be over here w/ DNS, HTML, & open source. David Pierce / @pierce : Over the last few...
A look at productivity influencers who center their content around apps like Notion, Excel, and Asana, offering advice on how to stay organized
This is the creators' internet. The rest of us are just living in it. We're accustomed to the scores of comedy TikTokers … Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @protocol , @protocol , @augustbradley , @jberrebi ,...
Platforms like Douyin in China have become live online labs where grassroots nationalists and state media collaborate to harass critics at home and abroad
Zeyi Yang / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @protocol , and @xu_xiuzhong Tweets: @protocol : The account that launched an online harassment campaign against a journalist and researcher was found to be...
A deep look at the experiences of Asian Americans in tech, including going unheard, getting passed over for promotions, and stereotyped as passive and diligent
Going unheard. Getting passed over for promotions. Stereotyped as “passive” and “diligent.” Tweets: @aaaj_la , @moorehn , @protocol , @meganrosedickey , @kristina_wong , @aasian , @phillyinquirer , ...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @jcstearns , @justinh...
Expensify's CEO emailed all users to encourage them to vote for Biden, says “anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy”
Trump has pressed every boundary of the office, beyond its breaking point in some cases. Michael Kapilkov / Cointelegraph : Charles Hoskinson calls for a different kind of apoliticism than Brian Armst...
Some Black restaurant owners say initiatives announced by delivery apps, like Uber Eats and DoorDash, to support Black-owned businesses have fallen short
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol : Tweets: @birnbaum_e , @protocol , and @mcwm Tweets: Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : I wrote about the limits of the Uber/Doordash/Postmates initiatives to boost Black-owned...