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...
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 ,...
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...
Facebook told employees it deleted an event page for Kenosha Guard but internal docs show it was deleted by the page admin; Facebook apologizes for the error
and only after two people were killed. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Shannon McGregor, PhD / @shannimcg : THIS is why transparency around decision making in moderation is so important. This is an ...
Facebook's employees and third-party fact-checkers say Facebook has sometimes overruled decisions on divisive content with little transparency
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @taraemcg , @marietjeschaake , @jason_kint , @craigsilverman , and @rmac18 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Tara McGowan / @taraemcg : ""They are the arbiters of the consequences f...
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .....