Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022
exactly the type of behavior that inspired Trump to threaten to ban the app” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @ebakerwhite Kyle Plotkin / @kjplotkin : This is unsurprising and there should be outrage...
Docs: SpaceX paid $250K to settle a flight attendant's allegation that Elon Musk exposed himself and offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016
Complications for the Twitter deal? Bill Chappell / NPR : Elon Musk denies a report accusing him of sexual misconduct on a SpaceX jet Abram Brown / Forbes : How The Sexual Misconduct Allegations Again...
How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more
Welcome to the 97th edition of Trade War. — As we near our 100th edition … Msmash / Slashdot : Amazon Partnered With China Propaganda Arm Tweets: Neeraj K. Agrawal / @neerajka : Amazon removed all r...
How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more
Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago … Tweets: @neerajka , @aliceysu , @dhakatribune , @_woifgang , @the...
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...
A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find
The platform's tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium. Tweets: @uugwuu , @dabeard , @uugwuu , @repteddeutch , @jessesingal , @waltmo...
Oracle has been marketing its data analytics software to police in China, detailing its ability to mine DNA, vehicle records, and facial recognition databases
Police in China's Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records … Tweets: @marahvistendahl , @bethanyallenebr , @gadyepstein , @globalhighered , ...
Leaked docs show how China stage-managed what appeared on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Tweets: @paulmozur , @justinhendrix , @camillefrancois , @st...
Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints
whose CEO said “keep politics out of the workplace”—has a hostile and racist workplace. https://www.nytimes.com/... Wynter Mitchell Rohrbaugh / @wyntermitchell : Y'all gon learn the hard way to not tr...
Picking a VPN to trust is a problem, but as demand grows, there's incentive for the industry to outgrow its Wild West phase and develop industry standards
Virtual private networks are now a must-have privacy tool. But good luck figuring out which ones will actually make you safer. Tweets: @boblord , @henrygrabar , @abenedikt , @lousylinguist , @gadyeps...