A deep dive into Reddit's history and the power of its 60K+ unpaid moderators, based on interviews with 60+ current and former mods, employees, and contractors
mods and Reddit employees, current and former—to document the company's very bumpy history in unprecedented detail. By @peard33 @RobertHPeck https://www.wired.com/... Paresh Dave / @peard33 : Seven mo...
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page
https://www.theverge.com/... @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social : You can no longer view tweets if you're not logged in to twitter. — You can't even view someone's twitter profile, not even if it's public....
Insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for the treatment of older patients
STAT : Tweets: @marshacollier and @maartenvsmeden Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier : How Medicare Advantage Plans Use #AI To Cut Off Care For Seniors Insurers are using unregulated predictive ...
Some US students say colleges are factoring in their social media posts about subjects like mental health and body positivity during the admission process
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post : Tweets: @film_girl , @marshacollier , @kari_paul , @mattnavarra , and @washingtonpost Tweets: Christina Warren / @film_girl : On the one hand, I think it is utterly m...
Some US students say hiring managers and college admissions officers are holding their social media content around subjects like mental health against them
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post : Tweets: @marshacollier , @kari_paul , @mattnavarra , @washingtonpost , @taylorlorenz , and @tatum_hunter_ Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier : TikTok loves true ...
SEC filing: T-Mobile says a hacker stole the data of ~37M customers, including names, addresses, and phone numbers, but not passwords, SSNs, or credit cards
here's what to do if you're ever worried that your data was leaked Chris Velazco / Washington Post : Here's what to do if you think you're affected by T-Mobile's latest data breach Lorenzo Franceschi-...
Amazon's registries for weddings, birthdays, new babies, and more are publicly visible by default, a sensitive personal data one-stop shop for identity thieves
a byproduct of very weak default privacy settings on their parenting registry products. Good find by the @theintercept: https://theintercept.com/... @theintercept : Imagine if a budding identity thief...
The dismantling of digital advertising based on personal data and cookies is reshaping revenue plans for ad and tech industries, publishers, and small companies
Brian X. Chen / New York Times : Tweets: @glenngabe , @ohmdee , @carnage4life , @carnage4life , @pt , @joefav , @nytimes , @brave , @marshacollier , @nytscience , and @rob See also Mediagazer Tweets:...
Sources: Twitter is testing new privacy-focused tools, including archiving and hiding old tweets and editing follower lists, as part of a “social privacy” push
Users will soon be able to remove followers. This is currently only possible by blocking someone. Twitter plans to test this feature starting this month.” https://twitter.com/... @fancytomboy : Thank ...
How Amazon contributed to the drop in the number of babies named Alexa in the US, UK, and Canada, after an initial surge upon the device's 2014 release
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic : Tweets: @anthroptimist , @mgsiegler , @afteralexa , @hashtagheyalexa , @alexahumanbeing , @malcolmmoore , and @marshacollier Tweets: Dr Alexa Hagerty / @anthroptimist : I...