How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between “Islamists” and “Muslims”
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. X: @mikeisaac , @shaunmmaguire , @shaunmmaguire , @shaunmmaguire , and @mikeisaac X: Ra...
Sources detail factors that weakened Elon Musk's alliance with President Trump, including his frustrations with Trump's tariffs and his disillusionment with DC
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch : Exit (or pretend to) pursued by a bear market. — www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... A.R. Moxon / @juliusgoat : Feel like the fact that...
A profile of Blake Benthall, arrested in 2014 for running Silk Road 2.0, which had 1.7M users and $8M/month sales, as he promotes his crypto startup Fathom(x)
New York Times : X: @rmac18 , @kashhill , @emers0nian , and @eddyelfenbein X: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : 10 years ago, @kashhill and I covered the downfall of Silk Road 2.0 and the arrest of its leader Bla...
Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels but negotiations stalled after Elon Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs
and refusal to immediately pay multiple bills — has raised the spectre … Tweets: Ben Sisario / @sisario : One of the odder stories of Elon-era Twitter chaos: the collapse of long-sought music licensin...
Since Elon Musk's takeover, sources say Twitter has in some cases chosen not to pay vendors, as it reviews and renegotiates deals to cut expenses
Good morning! FTX's lawyers painted a startling picture of the company in a bankruptcy court yesterday. Kali Hays / Insider : Elon Musk puts an end to some Twitter perks, limits expenses due to compa...
Sources detail internal confusion from Meta moderators and employees over how to enforce content rules during Russia's invasion of Ukraine
The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, causing internal confusion. — Meta, which owns Facebook … Tweets: @satariano , @rmac18 , @shiraovide , @rmac18 ,...
Nick Clegg says Meta refused a Russian order to stop the independent fact-checking and labeling of content from four state-owned media organizations on Facebook
and jail Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Russia Announces Partial Bans on Facebook Amid Escalating Ukraine Conflict Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Russia ‘Partially Restricts’ Facebook Access as Puni...
Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats
Read in app Isaiah Poritz / OpenSecrets.org : Facebook maintained big lobbying expenses ahead of Senate hearing on teen social media use Robin Raskin / Techonomy : Instagram for Kids: Doomed from the ...
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines
and making note of some of the components of the story. Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : NY Times: FB shelved Q1 ‘most viewed’ report because of things like this. Six inches further down the page, it...
Sources: Facebook's 3rd-party content mods were never instructed to enforce its “call to arms policy” from 2019, meant to prevent real-world armed intimidation
but never instructed third-party content moderators to enforce the rule https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Muslim Advocates / @muslimadvocates : For 5 years, we warned Facebook that militias were organ...