How prominent games accessibility advocate Susan Banks, who worked with studios and raised awareness for accessibility in games, may never have existed at all
(On a side note, this is the first time I can recall ever seeing actual deep journalism from IGN) — https://www.ign.com/... #disability #accessibility #gaming @omatheft@timetheft.social : this has ...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sparred with a trans Tumblr user over an account ban, revealing her side blog names, which are private, sparking community outcry
I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!! elerium on Tumblr : moscovium enthusiast — it almost goes without saying but for posterity's sake i want p...
Post-pandemic loneliness is driving young US adults to apps like Discord and Reddit to make friends; users say seeking friends as adults still carries stigma
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post : Twitter: @pkedrosky , @tatum_hunter_ , @abhabhattarai , @tonyajoriley , @nataliemj10 , and @yunheekim22 Twitter: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Americans are lonelier t...
Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs in 2022 were “automated or from bots”
What is it about SoftBank that attracted so many grifters? — https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Twitter: Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin : 95% fake!!! IRL raised $200 million from Softbank, Founder...
Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were “automated or from bots”
Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. LinkedIn: Michael Jackson . B...
Filing: a former employee alleges messaging app IRL inflated its user numbers and retaliated against him and others for raising concerns; IRL has raised $200M
Mark Matousek / The Information : Tweets: @ericnewcomer , @amir , and @amir Tweets: Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : This should not just be shrugged off: Former IRL Employee Alleges Company Inflated ...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
An interview with Puerto Rican Twitch star Ironmouse, who suffers from the chronic illness CVID and is the most popular VTuber on Twitch with 1M+ followers
Nathan Grayson / Washington Post : Tweets: @vahn16 and @itslanabee Tweets: Nathan Grayson / @vahn16 : earlier this year @ironmouse streamed nonstop for 31 days. it was a huge undertaking; IRL she suf...
Facebook and Twitter represent v1 of social networking, a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital and a lot more promising
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Tweets: @blaine , @rossgarber , @damanr , @blaine , @modestproposal1 , and @stratechery Tweets: Blaine Cook / @blaine : The way we and our communities relate is a very hu...
A look at how AI companies like Synthesia are creating corporate-friendly uses for deepfakes, like creating multilingual, personalized training videos
Tom Simonite / Wired : Tweets: @hollyhliu , @cidseasu , @nzaoui , @lishali88 , @far33d , @chrismessina , and @nxthompson Tweets: Holly Liu / @hollyhliu : This will change the entertainment and fashio...