Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platformer : Zuckerberg dra...
Ofcom: 22% of search results around basic self-injury terms on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and AOL produced single-click links to more harmful content
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Amanda Silberling: — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Polygon : Instagram to...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures
even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : DeSantis set to make m...
Source: AOL has ~1.5M users paying $10 to $15/month for tech support and ID monitoring service AOL Advantage; dial-up users now number in the “low thousands”
for identity theft and tech support services. https://www.cnbc.com/...
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...
Twitter should offer a way to memorialize dead people's accounts before removing accounts that have been inactive for over six months
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Q&A with people who still pay for email with EarthLink and AOL, which reported $600M revenue from email and dial-up in 2014 and estimated $400M in 2018
Charlotte West / OneZero :
Q&A with people who still pay for email with EarthLink and AOL, which reported $600M revenue from email and dial-up in 2014 and estimated $400M in 2018
It's not just Mike Pence and your grandma — a lot of people still use AOL and EarthLink, and pay for the privilege
Sources: Yahoo's Oath has been pitching advertisers on a service that analyzes its 200M+ Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail inboxes; source says practice began 10+ years ago
Web giant analyzes more than 200 million inboxes for clues about what products people might buy—a practice much of Silicon Valley has declared off-limits Tweets: @wsj , @djtgallagher , and @reaganbrad...