Big names like Kelsey Hightower pull out of the DevTernity conference after allegations its founder made fake profiles of female speakers to boost diversity
Anna Boyko, listed as a staff engineer at Coinbase, and Natalie Stadler, a “software craftswoman” at Coinbase—were included on the site as speakers but appear to not exist in real life. Neither have ...
A look at Mastodon's “antiviral” design and culture, where users push back at features and behaviors that promote virality, and embrace things that add friction
for some—much better than twitter (though not for everyone) On anti-viral design https://uxdesign.cc/... Julia / @thalassa_14 : About the antiviral design of Mastodon. Tbh I'm really looking forward t...
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
White nationalist outlets including VDare and Red Ice TV still operate on Facebook despite its ban on white nationalism; Facebook says it is investigating
Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban Tweets: @juliacarriew , @adamserwer , @juliacarriew , @peterme , @caro...