Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours
what you need to know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Twitter should be worried as Threads racks up 30 million sign ups in less than 24 hours Livemint : Elon Musk hits out at Zuckerberg as Threads seems ‘Thre...
Bari Weiss releases “Twitter Files Part Two”, sharing images of accounts that Twitter allegedly put on “blacklists” and screenshots of internal Slack messages
all in secret, without informing users. Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @DavidSacks As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left Ashley Feinberg / @ashl...
A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas' content moderation law by only approving comments with “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”
Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Tweets: @mmasnick , @genefortexas , @tentonheart , @peteccde , @espiers , @oneunderscore__ , and @mmasnick Tweets: Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Subreddit is stress testing Tex...
Center for Countering Digital Hate: Substack makes at least $2.5M/year via anti-vaccine posts; Substack defends hosting “writers with whom we strongly disagree”
Newsletter company Substack is making millions off anti-vaccine content, according to estimates Tweets: @lulumeservey , @neontaster , @alexhern , @chelseaclinton , @ggreenwald , @philthatremains , @ge...
Interviews with Basecamp staff on how a “funny” customer names list sparked an internal reckoning and spurred Basecamp's societal and political discussion ban
Casey's reporting for The Verge brought some of the dirty laundry … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Can We Do Better Than Deplatforming? — This is Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel abo...
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website
privacy breach on invite-only app raises concerns Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE : This Website Made Clubhouse Conversations Public Becky Bracken / Threatpost : Assume Clubhouse Conversations Ar...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Someone leaked an hour of audio from Clubhouse last night where Balajis, Felicia Horowitz, and other...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize against you This is t...
The panic over FaceApp highlighted how public attitudes about the internet have changed amid a widespread reckoning over data privacy and election interference
But Its Privacy Policy Has People Worried Charlie Warzel / New York Times : FaceApp Shows We Care About Privacy but Don't Understand It Jeff Elder / Avast EN : Is FaceApp safe? Clearing up confusion a...
Facebook's board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg to respond to Russian interference faster and calls NYT report “grossly unfair”
The Spreading Gloom Over the Technology Sector Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily : Facebook Stock Hits 21-Month Low After New York Times Article Blowup Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times : Facebo...