Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M+ to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies
so poor all they have is money. And Andreessen is the OG — Original Greed www.propublica.org/article/trum... Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : Given all the ways in which the ultra-wealthy have cur...
A look at IMDb's top 300 contributors, including one who wrote 35K+ plot summaries, and the history of the Amazon-owned crowdsourced website predating Wikipedia
Stephen Lurie / Wired : Tweets: @caitlin__kelly , @grahamdavida , @luriethereal , @michellelegro , and @michellelegro Tweets: Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : Scouring Stockholm libraries for forgot...
A book excerpt details US law enforcement efforts to catch Alpha02, who created AlphaBay, the largest online drug and crime bazaar, in 2014 and ran the service
The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery. Tweets: @caitlin__kelly , @aaronlammer...
Trump shutting down his blog shows the significance of social media platforms' amplification mechanics and how they give free and huge reach to the worst actors
it's free reach. It's never been clearer what stunts like the Florida deplatforming law are really about. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : @Bren...
Profile of Mobilize, a tool for helping organizations manage events and recruit volunteers, which has become nearly ubiquitous among Democratic campaigns
and it's getting creative. https://www.wired.com/... Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : New @GiladEdelman on how the Dems' top events platform is adjusting to covid-19. “Before the pandemic, about 25 p...
Some Instacart workers are frustrated over the delay in safety kits the company promised them on April 2; Instacart says it caps the daily number of kit orders
containing masks, hand sanitizer, and thermometers—but two weeks later, Instacart workers told me they've been nearly impossible to order and have yet to materialize. #scoop for @WIRED: https://www.wi...
Twitter is suspending 70 accounts linked to Michael Bloomberg's campaign for violating its policies, citing platform manipulation and duplicative content
hate speech, millions of fake accounts, russian trolls, trump lies & bigotry & incentivized violence are all ok — but Bloomberg sock puppets? hey THAT'S WHERE WE DRAW THE LINE. #FiddlingWhileRomeBurns...
The US's first online census in 2020 may be more inclusive and efficient, but some experts fear the Census Bureau is opening itself up to new risks
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @caitlin__kelly and @issielapowsky Tweets: Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : The 2020 census is going digital. One reason why? The Census Bureau handed out 17 million...