A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the company's AI spending spree
Amy Hood is at the center of Microsoft's bet-the-company dive into AI Threads: @benedictevans . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @carnage4life@mas.to X: @marceloplima , @modestproposal1 , and @modes...
A profile of COO Javier Olivan, who has become Meta's “unofficial fixer” and has had a hand in all of the company's major competitive battles and acquisitions
In 2008, Facebook was offered only in English—and struggling to expand internationally. Tweets: @kurtwagner8 , @russellsieg , @jason_kint , @bqprime , @pbandjaimie , @bangtheclose , and @alexbarinka T...
Meta's reported investigation into Sheryl Sandberg's expenses feels odd given the company spends extreme sums of money to burnish its executives' reputations
Meta's reported investigation into Sheryl Sandberg's expenses feels strange given the company has spent lavishly to boost Mark Zuckerberg and its executives
For an entrepreneur who has made “community” his life's mission, Mark Zuckerberg has always seemed oddly fixated on managing his own appearance. Tweets: @danawollman , @ebboyd , @chafkin , and @chafki...
Sheryl Sandberg's departure comes as Meta faces a challenging post-ATT ad market, a drastic pivot to the metaverse, and increasing EU scrutiny
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After building Meta's massive ad business, Sheryl Sandberg's legacy is complicated by blind spots on data, misinformation, and more
Sheryl Sandberg once remarked that she felt she was put on earth to scale organizations — and during her career as one of the most powerful executives in Silicon Valley …
Analysis shows Facebook's role in spreading false US election narratives; 650,000+ posts questioned Biden's victory between Election Day and the January 6 siege
three weeks before the election — Facebook announced, through life-long Dem operative @AndyMStone — that it was suppressing discussion of reporting about the Biden family pending a 3rd-party fact-chec...
Book excerpt shows how Zuckerberg and Sandberg's partnership deteriorated during the Trump era, as Zuckerberg increasingly made the biggest policy decisions
it feels ... familiar. And excited to read this tome tonight. https://twitter.com/... @seyitaylor : I'm assuming this is what the “Agrestes” episode was based on? https://twitter.com/... Seamus Hughes...
An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights”
but Facebook will ignore because Facebook is Facebook and will always be Facebook for as long as Facebook is allowed to decide what Facebook shouldn't and shouldn't do on Facebook. https://www.nytimes...
Leaked Facebook memo describes company's lobbying efforts in 2012 and 2013 against a proposed European data directive which later became GDPR, more
some of this is not actually new news & was in the public domain two years ago (2017) thanks to my Irish journo colleagues at the Irish Independent. It made top of the news here at the time: http://ww...