Q&A with Marc Andreessen on his political evolution from a “normie Democrat” to a Donald Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o... Jan-Werner Mueller / @jwmueller-pu : “The E.U. is, as you know, regulating itself to death. And they're damaging themselves mostly, but what they're also doing is dama...
A lawsuit against Character.AI alleges its chatbots harmed two young Texas users, including telling a user that it sympathized with kids who kill their parents
This latest lawsuit followed the widely covered case of the 14-year-old who committed suicide after being encouraged to do so by a Character.AI chat bot. — I'd be willing to bet there are even more ...
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July
tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it. a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a return on their signi...
Twitter Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin says she took the screenshots of internal systems that Bari Weiss shared and that “reporters were not accessing user DMs”
do Weiss and Taibbi have access to users' DMs? It would be good to get clear explanation about this screen and yes/no answer to this straightforward question. https://twitter.com/... Bari Weiss / @bar...
Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff
Hi 👋 - Third quarter earnings show that big tech … Rise & Shine ☀ : Twitter Layoffs: The lawsuit and Fears of misinformation Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media : Musk & Mayhem @Twitter Kristin Majcher /...
How TikTok's auto-generation tools helped popularize subtitles in the app, as creators compete for the estimated 75% of users who leave their phones on mute
TikTok creator Alyssa McKay has perfected a persona people love to hate: a Regina George-esque rich girl whose bouncy raps are packed … Tweets: @latimes , @iamahmedkhalifa , @_b_contreras_ , @jeffberc...
How TikTok's auto-generation tools helped popularize subtitles in the app, as creators compete for the estimated 75% of users who leave their phones on mute
TikTok creator Alyssa McKay has perfected a persona people love to hate: a Regina George-esque rich girl whose bouncy raps are packed … Tweets: @_b_contreras_ , @whitneyd , @jeffbercovici , @donasarka...
Trump's last post on Facebook, which now has 700K+ comments, has become a weird internet memorial where his fans and critics still converge to argue and troll
most of his preceding posts received between 20,000 and 200,000 — and new replies come in every few minutes. “We need to know you hear us,” one supporter wrote last week. https://www.latimes.com/... @...
Sources: since 2018, over 110,000 government officials and candidates have been on a Facebook whitelist that prevented them from being fact checked
and subsequently have their reach reduced — for spreading misinformation. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Amir Efrati / @amir : New: *Facebook has political “whitelist” of ...
New mathematical model-based research suggests that exposing US social media users to viewpoints different than their own furthers political polarization
Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least … Tweets: @mims , @ingridlunden , @mims , @somospostpc , @rjcc , @...