A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful
And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch” Todd Bishop / GeekWire : ‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli The Logic on Crowdcast : Amazon's road to...
Documents and sources: Facebook scaled back plans to heavily demote politics and others sensitive topics, finding the policy had a “high and inefficient cost”
Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences Tweets: @keachhagey , @mattzeitlin , @reaganbrad , and @emilyglazer Tweets: @keachhagey : Facebook spent months...
Sources: following Haugen's leaks, Meta sought to divide lawmakers along partisan lines to forestall regulation, as Zuckerberg told employees not to apologize
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg drove response to disclosures about company's influence; sending deputies to testify in Congress Tweets: @mrjohnflowers , @samidh , @startupljackson , @eliotwb , @kantr...
A look at Facebook's lobbying operation, which spent $20M last year, as it struggles to hire and retain key Democratic staff, with a top job open since January
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jameshohmann , @emilyglazer , @emilyglazer , @andrewrestuccia , @emilyglazer , @jameshohmann , @jameshohmann , @emilyglazer , @llerer , @emilyglazer , @joshsternberg , ...
Sources: Facebook has begun limiting internal info sharing and paused product rollouts in recent days as employees conduct “reputational reviews”
but since there's a current PR problem... https://www.wsj.com/... Karissa Bell / @karissabe : Interesting that these are “reputational” reviews, not ethical reviews or research reviews. Telling re: fa...
Sources: Facebook has put product rollouts on hold in recent days as employees conduct “reputational reviews” and has begun limiting internal info sharing
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @davidclinchnews and @emilyglazer Tweets: David Clinch / @davidclinchnews : Ethical Product Development should be mandatory https://twitter.com/... Emily Glazer / @emily...
Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple reportedly threatene...
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
exactly what Apple is attacking FB over.) Depesh Mandalia / @depeshm : Who's signing up for Apple ads?! I love the paradoxical wording: a) the Apple ad platform does not track you b) but don't turn of...
Sources: Facebook is considering making changes to political ads policy, including increasing the number of users who can be targeted from 100 to a few thousand
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Sources: Google has been holding internal meetings on changing its political ad policy, and plans to share more information with employees soon
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