Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute
the ability to block trolls Metro.co.uk : Elon Musk plans to stop letting X (formerly Twitter) users block each other Jorge Aguilar / Android Police : The app formally known as Twitter continues its d...
Some experts say trolls who built businesses and media careers on Twitter have had to escalate shock value tactics as the audience of “normal people” shrinks
Elon Musk's business model depends on “triggering” liberals — but he's now running out of progressives to bait Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @timfordwrites@mstdn.ca , and @bruno_j_navarro … . Blues...
Mastodon, nostr, and other decentralized social networks are having a moment, despite some complexity, propelled by the apparent decline of Twitter and Meta
So, it's been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it … Mastodon: @kkomaitis@techpolicy.social . Tweets: @brosandprose , @k...
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...
Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B
Utopian good—with another six architectural and business model reforms. Let me run the place in my spare time from finding, funding, and growing Deep Tech breakthroughs. https://twitter.com/... Kurt W...
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
foreign organizations that strategically target these groups for financial and possibly political gain. https://twitter.com/... Ella Dawson / @brosandprose : “In October 2019, all 15 of the top pages ...
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_k_levin , @katestarb...
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...