How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors
The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it — At the headquarters of the United Nations … X: @lucas_shaw , @lpolgreen , @_night_brain__ , @ezraklein , @otis_reid , @pkafka , ...
Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content
companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg.com/... Parker Orto...
Q&A with Alondra Nelson, former deputy director of Biden's OSTP who spearheaded the White House's AI Bill of Rights effort, on the AI policy challenge and more
I'm Ezra Klein. This is “The Ezra Klein Show.” — [MUSIC PLAYING] — It would be easy, listening to the discourse about A.I. …
Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other
Adventures in context collapse. — 1 hr ago … We Need To Get Rid Of Twitter Trending Topics Tweets: @ezraklein , @ezraklein , @ezraklein , @ambernoelle , @alexbrucesmith , @trevinwax , @ezraklein , @...
An internal doc at Facebook, co-written by Chris Cox, aims to equip employees with rebuttals to the perception that the company's products fuel polarization
In a Thursday presentation, Facebook executives told employees the company isn't to blame for social division in the country. Tweets: @rmac18 , @jtemple , @rmac18 , @buzzfeednews , @rmac18 , @johnpacz...
Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection
I saw this play out in the Philippines too when I was reporting my story about President Duterte “influencers” on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Stuart Andrew Thompson /...
With print books often cheaper than ebooks, whose sales stabilized at ~20% of total book sales, a look at the aftermath of Apple's ebook price fixing lawsuit
Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences. Tweets: @tedgioia , @mobylives , @tekaldas , @tkingdot , @paulkrugman , @jamesrbuk , @gorskon , ...
With print books often cheaper than ebooks, whose sales stabilized at ~20% of total book sales, a look at the aftermath of Apple's ebook price fixing lawsuit
Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences. Tweets: @tekaldas , @tkingdot , @paulkrugman , @gorskon , @jamesrbuk , @dandrezner , @irhottakes...
Slack and other workplace messaging services undermine their goal of increased productivity by becoming distractions, where users are constantly chatting
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven't. — Several people are typing. Tweets: @mostafanageeb , @bdsams , @cebsilver , @howelloneill , @a...
Interviews with Wisconsin residents about Foxconn's slow progress with its investments in the state seem to indicate Foxconn has no idea what it's doing
Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin — so we went looking for them Tweets: @joshdzieza , @billiamjoel , @brockwilbur , @joshdzieza , @ezraklein , @jonathanoosting , @a...