Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel. — www.nbcnews.com/p...
Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Michael Dell, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders congratulate Trump on his election victory
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Anil Dash / @anildash : Absolutely pathetic behavior. He said he was going to throw you in prison and you still can't help sucking up to a fascist. Matt Navarra / @mat...
A look at Rockbridge, a Silicon Valley-backed right-wing donor group co-founded by JD Vance to influence US politics; docs and sources: its 2024 budget is ~$75M
Reuters : X: @wendysiegelman , @randoigno , @wendysiegelman , @reuters , @ppopiel , @davidch80671676 , @josephax , @renenutt , @bazmaniandevil , and @wendysiegelman Forums: Hacker News , r/politics ,...
Elon Musk's Donald Trump interview on X Spaces was derailed by technical glitches at the scheduled start time on August 12; Musk blamed “a massive DDoS attack”
but Elon Musk Desperately Needs Him Back Simon Sharwood / The Register : Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS Emily Dreibelbis / PCMag : Musk Blames DDoS Attack For 40-Minute De...
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...
Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to do business with it because it's toxic, which is the nature of a free market
I've delayed writing deeper thoughts on the total deplatforming of Parler, in part because there was so much else happening … Tweets: @benhixonva , @erratarob , @mcwm , @tynanpants , @jonjones , @erra...
Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked on Friday, possibly by a group that calls themselves the Chuckle Squad, which posted a number of racist tweets
and he's the CEO of Twitter John Callaham / Android Authority : Regularly changing your Twitter password is important, as Twitter CEO found out Tweets: @twittercomms : We're aware that @jack was compr...
Sources: Rep. Ilhan Omar asked Jack Dorsey in a call why Twitter didn't pull Trump tweet with a video prompting death threats; Dorsey said it didn't break rules
Twitter did not take down the tweet, despite Omar's request, a source said. — Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic … Tweets: @qasimrashid , @markseibel , @jordanuhl , @jamilsmith , ...
Twitter says over the next week it will adjust users' follower counts to no longer include locked accounts, dropping Twitter's combined follower count by ~6%
here's why Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Twitter to Remove Millions of Accounts from Follower Numbers as Part of New Push Aroon Deep / MediaNama : Twitter users will lose four followers on ...
Calls for Twitter to ban President Trump are misguided and counterproductive; the biggest threat posed by @realDonaldTrump is to Trump's own presidency
An evening newsletter about Facebook, social networks, and democracy. Valentin GRAFF / France 24 : From the US to North Korea, the myth of the ‘nuclear button’ Ians / Firstpost : Here's why Twitter di...