Twitter rolls out its updated “interim” X logo, replacing the iconic bird, following Elon Musk's weekend announcement; X.com now redirects to twitter.com
it's just an X that someone tweeted at him Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived Jon Porter / The Verge : RIP Twitter's iconic bird logo Kyle Barr / G...
Elon Musk takes Twitter private, merging the company with X Holdings, delisting from NYSE, dissolving the board, and moving staff stock options to cash bonuses
Elon Musk's former fans have lost faith in the idea of the billionaire genius. Angela Watercutter / Wired : Twitter Writes Twitter's Requiem Livemint : Big reveal in Parag's sacking! Messages between ...
Amazon plans to acquire primary health care provider One Medical, which offers in-person, digital, and virtual services, for about $3.9B in an all-cash deal
Amazon is buying One Medical, the so-called “Netflix of primary care,” for $3.9 billion. Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica : Amazon might own your doctor's office after latest acquisition Bloomberg : Ama...
Some Black and LGBTQ passengers say Uber and Lyft drivers refuse rides by falsely claiming they're maskless, a claim also used against drivers to get free rides
Black and LGBTQ passengers told BuzzFeed News they're being refused rides due to false claims they're not wearing masks. Tweets: @allisonpdavis , @allisonpdavis , @annetgriffin , @nmessina , @davidmac...
Spotify buys app developer Betty Labs, creator of Locker Room, a live social audio app where fans can talk about sports, which Spotify plans on expanding
one way or the other! 🤷♂️ genius move or peak bubble moment—what do you think? https://twitter.com/... Gady Epstein / @gadyepstein : I'm working on a project combining various substacks into a single...
Recording of Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 where Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai testified
bringing in Zuckerberg, Pichai, & Dorsey to defend their content moderation under threat of gutting Section 230, days before the election—feels like a last-ditch effort to spook them out of enforcing ...
YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza
stuff that targets entire groups. Ben Shapiro smearing Muslims as terrorists. Lauren Southern railing against “mass migration.” This is hate speech with a smile. Carlos Maza / @gaywonk : 2. YouTube ma...
FOIA docs show a former top DHS official, now at Google, was involved in Trump's family separation policy, despite Google's explicit denials to concerned staff
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @ben_orlebeke , @davidmackau , @jstrauss , @slpng_giants , and @rmac18 Tweets: Ben Orlebeke / @ben_orlebeke : The worst part of this story is how quickly we're already moving ...
Survey of 1,000 tech industry workers: 51% believe “Trump has a point when it comes to the media producing fake news” and 59% favor working with the US military
A new study by BuzzFeed News and Lucid surveyed tech workers on their attitudes toward the media. Tweets: @anandwrites , @wesyang , @emilybell , @carnage4life , @cequirk , @bernstein , @went1955 , @ma...
After Amazon misread New York's politics, pulling out was a typical Bezos power play of belligerently confronting opposition he views as unfair or unjust
And Everyone Lost Paige Leskin / Business Insider : Amazon was having official talks with city officials just the day before it canceled the New York HQ2 Chris Nuttall / Financial Times : Amazon and N...