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Andrew Bosworth

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52 articles accelerating

Andrew Bosworth has appeared in 52 articles since 2017-08. Coverage peaked in 2025Q2 with 6 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Meta, Facebook, Reality Labs, Boz.

Articles
52
mentions
Velocity
+200.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+2.500
velocity change
Sources
28
publications

Coverage Timeline

2025-09-20
The Verge 19 related

Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep

and it wasn't the Wi-Fi Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider : Meta's CTO: We'd ‘love’ iMessage on Ray-Ban glasses, but Apple won't allow it David Heaney / UploadVR : Meta Explains Why Its Connect Live...

2025-01-17
The Information

Source: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that some of Meta's changes were “pretty ham-fisted, borderline unintentional” and Meta is planning some corrections

Kalley Huang / The Information : Bluesky: @abunchofmalarkey . Threads: @firerock31 . X: @amir Bluesky: @abunchofmalarkey : Nothing to worry about.  There are only 3 billion facebook users worldwide. ...

2021-12-13
Axios 6 related

In an interview, Meta's Andrew Bosworth says political and COVID-19 misinformation are societal problems, not issues that have been magnified by social networks

Longtime Facebook veteran Andrew Bosworth insists that political and COVID-19 misinformation are societal problems rather …

2021-11-13
Financial Times 10 related

Internal memo: Andrew Bosworth says Meta's virtual worlds need “almost Disney levels of safety” but moderation at “meaningful scale is practically impossible”

from keeping a platform safe to correctly enforcing your own app store acceptance policies—seems to be impossible. https://www.ft.com/... Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy : He also says third party VR ...

2021-11-12
Financial Times

In internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says he wants the metaverse to have “almost Disney levels of safety” but that moderation at scale “is practically impossible”

Internal memo from Andrew Bosworth lays out the scale of the challenge Tweets: @mshannahmurphy , @matthewfederman , @peterwsinger , @somebadideas , @minimaxir , @alexweprin , @karlbode , @counternotio...

2020-12-20
New York Times 10 related

The only explanation for its ad campaign against Apple is that Facebook has decided shamelessness works, after years of cozying up to the Trump administration

For most of the past week and a half, this image has been stuck in my head: John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Facebook Wades Into Epic's Dispute With Apple Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : Facebook criticize...

2020-01-08
Facebook 14 related

Andrew Bosworth publicly releases his internal post on Facebook's role in 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, polarization, algorithmic transparency, and more

The NYT recently obtained a copy of a post I made to the wall of my internal profile within Facebook.

New York Times 30 related

Internal Facebook memo from longtime exec Andrew Bosworth says he “desperately” wants Trump to lose in 2020, but Facebook should not tilt the scales against him

In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth said he “desperately” wanted the president to lose.

2018-03-31
The Verge 20 related

Leaked Facebook employee thread about now-deleted Boz memo had ~3,000 comments, with dozens criticizing leakers, others empathizing with users

Yesterday afternoon, BuzzFeed published … Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed : Sen. Ed Markey Says “Congress Must Act” When Facebook Fails To Maintain Safety On Its Platform Sam Levin / The Guardian : Interna...

2018-03-30
The Verge 6 related

Sources: Facebook employees react to VP's controversial 2016 memo, with dozens criticizing company leakers; Andrew Bosworth has now deleted his memo

“I've always thought our ‘open but punitive’ stance was particularly vulnerable to suicide bombers."  —  The publication of a June 2016 …

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 48 Techmeme articles mentioning Andrew Bosworth, dating back to August 2017. The biggest stories include Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will “reinvest the savings” in... and Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will “reinvest the savings” in.... Frequently covered alongside Meta, Facebook, Reality Labs, Q&A, and Boz. Coverage has shifted toward research themes and away from developer, consumer.

Key Moments

2025Q1enterprise +33pts; developer -50pts; consumer -17pts
2025Q2enterprise -33pts; consumer -8pts
2026Q1consumer -25pts; research +20pts

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