Amazon's $35M marketing campaign for Melania is ~10x the budget for similar documentaries like CNN's RBG; some suggest Amazon is currying favor with Trump
The tech giant is spending $35 million to promote its film about the first lady, far more than is typical for documentaries.
To show an attack vector, a researcher made a package with a name hallucinated by ChatGPT that had 30K+ downloads in three months and appeared in many repos
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BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend
For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly”, amid mass layoffs; Twitter's headcount grew from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021
- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …
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
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Internal research: Twitter has been losing “heavy tweeters”, who tweet three to four times a week, since the pandemic began, masked by an overall growth in DAUs
“Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.
Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal
Good morning! If you're looking to head to Bhutan anytime soon, we've got some news for you. Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : What's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter deal? Ar...
Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal
Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh? — Oh Elon — I think it is helpful to start with the big picture.
Leaked emails show that Citizen app is testing an on-demand private security service that will respond to “incidents” as requested by app users
Citizen would deploy private security forces at the request of app users, according to documents and sources. — Joseph Cox
Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the platform after years of harassment
particularly women of color—across the country are the victims of online abuse and harassment. Women deserve a safer Internet. https://www.theverge.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : ...
Jack Dorsey's first tweet sold as an NFT for $2,915,835.47 on a service called Valuables; Dorsey says he sent all proceeds to GiveDirectly's Africa fund as BTC
The winning bidder for the Twitter CEO's first tweet was Sina Estavi — After it spent just over two weeks on the market …
Sources: Zuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of Alex Jones' ban in 2019 slowed down Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content
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Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence
including strongmen and their most avid followers. https://nyer.cm/bbhby6Q @newyorker : .@andrewmarantz reports on Facebook's inability or unwillingness to stamp out the hate speec...
Facebook says its new policy that bans the denial or distortion of the Holocaust does not apply to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides
Facebook Inc. will ban posts that deny the Holocaust in a reversal of a long-held and controversial policy.
On a call with Facebook employees Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg stood firmly behind his decision to leave up President Trump's inflammatory posts
In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on President Trump's messages, Mark Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.”
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
For years … Yann LeCun / Facebook : Whenever there is a major political issue with two sides … Tweets: Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : A Facebook employee resigns. “Mark always told us...
In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
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In leaked audio from an internal meeting, Mark Zuckerberg says they will re-examine policies around politicians discussing the use of state force on Facebook
The company is treating a moral issue as if it's a legal one — I. The CEO — On Friday afternoon, Facebook …
Instacart is paying workers about the same to do 2-3 orders at a time as it does for one order as demand rises during the pandemic, interviews and receipts show
and then changing them to zero https://www.cnn.com/... @juliaangelenpr : Well we've hit a new low as humans: https://twitter.com/... Frankie Pumps / @fiercefrankie1 : Who even thin...