Extremely Hardcore book excerpt: how Elon Musk's decision to impose rate limits on Twitter in summer 2023 helped upsell Blue, as he prepared to launch xAI
Zoë Schiffer / Wired : Bluesky: @zoeschiffer.bsky.social . X: @laurengoode . Forums: r/Twitter Bluesky: Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer.bsky.social : For Wired, a new excerpt from my book, Extremely Hard...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick / iMore : Is Twitter ...
The Wire apologizes, saying technical evidence should have been independently verified and that it was deceived “by a member of our Meta investigation team”
Last week, The Wire formally retracted its Meta stories after conducting an internal review of the technical source material used … Tweets: @amitmalviya , @thewire_in , @caseynewton , @anuraag_saxena ...
Sources detail how Twitter's health team, once tasked with fostering civil conversations, was cut from 15 full-time staff to two amid the Musk acquisition chaos
Just when you think things couldn't get any crazier at Twitter … Casey Newton / Platformer : Sources detail how Twitter's health team, tasked with fostering civil conversations, went from 15 full-time...
Daversa, an executive recruitment firm for companies like Instacart and Spotify, is facing allegations of male-on-male harassment and assault in a new lawsuit
The company places senior leadership in fast-growing startups to help them become stable, safe work environments Tweets: @russellbrandom , @kateconger , @hkanji , @cmuggla , and @klarnaseb Tweets: Rus...
Labor lawyers say Apple has violated worker protections by shutting down three employee-run surveys on women and underrepresented minorities' pay equity
under US law, employees have the right to discuss pay.” https://www.theverge.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : It's illegal for an employer to ban employees from sharing salary information with ...
In a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September
and Leaks to The Verge — Pushing Back Against Returning to the Office Dan Pontefract / Forbes : Is Apple In Trouble With Its Hybrid Work Model? Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Apple Employees Ask Tim Cook t...
Eleven current and ex-Mailchimp employees say company executives knew about allegations of racism and sexism at the company, some as early as 2014
is anyone listening? https://www.theverge.com/... @alex : a classic dodge https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Here's @ZoeSchiffer with a deep investigation i...
Medium's opaque moderation of user-created content related to COVID-19 has allowed misinfo to spread, making it harder to tell fact from fiction on the platform
The platform empowers voices — and misinformation — On March 20th, an article about the novel coronavirus started to spread. Tweets: @zoeschiffer , @reckless , @niemanlab , and @knguyen Tweets: Zoe ...