A profile of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who has crafted a strategy to stop China from unseating the US as the world's tech superpower
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : X: @mcfaul , @anderscorr , @wiredscience , @issielapowsky , @benbrodydc , and @issielapowsky . LinkedIn: Shannon Brandao Forums: r/neoliberal , r/mlscaling , r/technews , and...
Sources: Stanford Internet Observatory is winding down after five years and won't conduct research into any future elections; Stanford may retain SIO's branding
persecutions to deter truth-telling — into vital research on right-wing extremism have paid off for the extremists. — In a cowardly but understandable move, Stanford University is dismantling its In...
Meta's civil rights team made progress in its first year, including removing sensitive ad targeting categories, but experts say it needs to be empowered to act
and it has many — Meta has tended to be a trendsetter in tech when it comes to experimenting with new forms of governance and transparency. https://twitter.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : NE...
A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6%
Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms … Tweets: @carnage4life , @somospostpc , @codinghorror , ...
Internal documents shed light on Facebook's “holdout” experiments, where it withholds certain protections from a subset of users to see how they will react
on purpose https://www.protocol.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : This is what Frances Haugen was talking about when she described Facebook's “integrity holdouts” to Congress: “These are peopl...
Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter
because if you're underpaid it's that much harder to store up the financial power to speak. https://twitter.com/... David Sacks / @davidsacks : Did anyone else notice that the Facebook whistleblower b...
Q&A with Erin Saltman of Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, backed by Facebook and others, on redefining extremism, working with members, and more
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @issielapowsky , and @issielapowsky Tweets: @protocol : Soon after the Jan. 6 riot, the tech industry's leading anti-terrorism alliance decided to expa...
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium as members debate the future of online privacy, with browsers' engineers often at odds with companies that rely on tracking
James Rosewell could see his company's future was in jeopardy. — It was January 2020, and Google had just announced key details … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @hkanji , @jason_kint , @tiffanycli , @davi...
Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy
Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @folletto , @protocol , @joyehoward , @runasand , @tri...
A deep look at the experiences of Asian Americans in tech, including going unheard, getting passed over for promotions, and stereotyped as passive and diligent
Going unheard. Getting passed over for promotions. Stereotyped as “passive” and “diligent.” Tweets: @aaaj_la , @moorehn , @protocol , @meganrosedickey , @kristina_wong , @aasian , @phillyinquirer , ...