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Mary Branscombe

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84 articles decelerating

Eight stories in both 2024 Q3 and 2025 Q3 mark Mary Branscombe’s coverage as increasingly centered on platform governance and the Substack backlash.

Who they are

Mary Branscombe appears in this corpus as a commentator in technology-platform coverage, with especially frequent associations with Bluesky, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Mastodon, Elon Musk, and Twitter. The clearest direct role in the supplied relationships is as one of several named commentators criticizing Substack’s management and practices.

The recent arc

Coverage rose through 2024, reaching its all-time quarterly high in 2024 Q3, then remained elevated into 2025, matching that high in 2025 Q3. The most distinctive recent thread is the dispute around Substack: Branscombe is linked to criticism that the platform supports or funnels money to extremist actors, while a July 2025 headline records Substack apologizing for a push alert promoting NatSocToday, described as a Nazi newsletter.

The tension

The central tension is between platform distribution and editorial or governance accountability. Branscombe’s Substack-related criticism, shared with Dan Gillmor, Andrea Grimes, Carlton Gibson, and Matt Zoller Seitz, sits alongside recurring coverage of alternative and incumbent social platforms including Bluesky, Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, and Elon Musk’s X ecosystem.

Why it matters

If this coverage pattern persists, Branscombe’s relevance will be tied less to a single product cycle than to the continuing contest over which platforms creators and audiences can trust to govern speech, monetization, and harmful material. The Substack episode shows how a distribution decision can turn into a broader credibility issue; whether that pressure shifts users or platform policies is not established by the corpus.

Mary Branscombe has appeared in 84 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2025Q3 with 8 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Bluesky, Microsoft, Google, Facebook.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-09-05
The Verge 25 related

Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving users a way to build upon posts' 500-character text limit

Meta's Threads app is adding a way for users to post up to 10,000 characters … Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Threads Users Can Now Add Up to 10,000 Characters to Posts Tim Marcin / Mashable : Thr...

2025-03-13
The Verge 24 related

Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025

what's next? iClarified : Sonos Abandons Streaming Device That Aimed to Rival Apple TV [Report] Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Report: Sonos Cancels Set-Top Box Matthew Keys / The Desk : Report: Sonos aba...

2024-10-18
XDA Developers 17 related

Qualcomm cancels the Snapdragon Dev Kit, which was supposed to ship in June, and will offer refunds, as the product failed to meet its “standards of excellence”

refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately Bluesky: Scary Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : ouch - but you can already get a laptop with those same specs...

2024-10-10
TechCrunch 22 related

Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that lets users create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar with a head and arms from a video they record of themselves

Skipping Boring Remote Meetings Finally A Reality? Noor Bazmi / Cryptopolitan : Zoom's upcoming feature of AI avatars to talk in meetings may also have a possibilty deep fakes Emma Roth / The Verge : ...

2024-08-06
Notebookcheck

Q&A with Intel VP Robert Hallock on the upcoming Lunar Lake chips, Intel using TSMC nodes, and how the Arm vs. x86 power debates are based on a false premise

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam / Notebookcheck : Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social . Forums: r/hardware Bluesky: Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : That's interesting because if it's true that Intel ...

2023-10-28
The Information 2 related

Sources: Humane timed its ~$1K Ai Pin launch to the October 14 eclipse, but moved it to November 9 after reports broke about Sam Altman and Jony Ive's AI device

and require a subscription Threads: @martinsfp : Wearable cameras are back, baybee: “A peek inside secretive startup Humane before the grand unveiling of its first product, the screenless, wearable Ai...

2023-07-19
Engadget 41 related

Microsoft announces Copilot for Microsoft 365 will cost $30 per user per month for business accounts, and debuts Bing Chat Enterprise, offering improved privacy

and may even jeopardize your core mission; then we charge you for those unwanted tools,  —  #EdTech #Schools #K12 #HigherEd #HigherEducation  —  https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... Twitter: Jamin Ball / ...

2023-05-24
The Official Microsoft Blog 43 related

Microsoft plans to adopt the same plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot offerings

We are showcasing how AI is redefining what developers build, as well as how AI is accelerating new business value. … Mastodon: Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung@mastodon.social : Imagine being Cortana and the...

2023-03-17
Bloomberg 42 related

Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months

here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerP...

2021-08-21
The Verge 44 related

Elon Musk says Tesla is working on a humanoid robot that will handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring”, with a prototype “sometime next year”

Join us to build the future of AI → https://www.tesla.com/ai0:00 … Stephen Shankland / CNET : No one knows when Tesla Bot will arrive. Here are robots you can experience now Jackson Ryan / CNET : Elon...

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