A look at IMDb's top 300 contributors, including one who wrote 35K+ plot summaries, and the history of the Amazon-owned crowdsourced website predating Wikipedia
Stephen Lurie / Wired : Tweets: @caitlin__kelly , @grahamdavida , @luriethereal , @michellelegro , and @michellelegro Tweets: Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : Scouring Stockholm ...
Internal docs reveal farewell posts by some Facebook employees detail disappointment and dissatisfaction with a company unwilling or unable to change
The “badge posts” of the company's former researchers offer the parting thoughts of the disillusioned. — The Facebook Papers
Leaked docs offer a blueprint for solving Facebook's problems: improve products by deprioritizing engagement, reduce AI reliance, focus on developing countries
Internal research documents provide a blueprint for solving the company's biggest problems. — The Facebook Papers
Internal docs reveal farewell posts by some Facebook employees detail disappointment and dissatisfaction with a company unwilling or unable to change
The “badge posts” of the company's former researchers offer the parting thoughts of the disillusioned. — The Facebook Papers
Trump shutting down his blog shows the significance of social media platforms' amplification mechanics and how they give free and huge reach to the worst actors
it's free reach. It's never been clearer what stunts like the Florida deplatforming law are really about. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Kate Starbird / @...
A new Florida law regulates how Facebook, Twitter, and others moderate speech, with fines for banning candidates; the law exempts companies that own theme parks
The new law, a direct response to Facebook and Twitter's suspension of former President Donald J. Trump, affects candidates for statewide offices.
Florida's new Stop Social Media Censorship Act almost certainly violates the US Constitution and Section 230, and will likely be struck down in court
will it work? Josiah Motley / KnowTechie : Florida has a new bill that bans social media companies from blocking Florida politicians Tweets: Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : “This...
Florida's new Stop Social Media Censorship Act almost certainly violates the US Constitution and Section 230, and will likely be struck down in court
will it work? Josiah Motley / KnowTechie : Florida has a new bill that bans social media companies from blocking Florida politicians Tweets: Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly : “This...
A new Florida law regulates how Facebook, Twitter, and others moderate speech, with fines for banning candidates; the law exempts companies that own theme parks
The new law, a direct response to Facebook and Twitter's suspension of former President Donald J. Trump, affects candidates for statewide offices.
Interviews with low-wage contract workers at Silicon Valley campuses show the existential threat to livelihoods from longterm COVID-19 closures
cooks, baristas, custodians, etc—in this WFH year https://www.wired.com/... @wired : Tens of thousands of people in Silicon Valley make a living by keeping tech campuses running. W...
Source: Apple is planning a $3,000+ mixed-reality headset with 8K displays, eye-tracking tech, and 12+ cameras to track hand movements and show the real world
Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection”
like a number of smart people!—aren't surprised at the violence. 2/ https://www.wired.com/... Carl Miller / @carljackmiller : Here goes Reddit too. You really can't overstate how i...
As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities
Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
Reddit bans one of its largest Trump supporting subreddits, r/donaldtrump, due to repeated policy violations with regard to the violence at the Capitol
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection”
The server had connections to the banned r/The_Donald subreddit — Discord has banned a server called “The Donald …
Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor
and a reminder that “Indian Ocean, Present Day” was in fact a very long time ago https://twitter.com/... Clive Thompson / @pomeranian99 : Wonderful piece by @sarahfallon in @WIRED ...
Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor
In a weird way, I've known Ray Holt all my life, but I never knew what he had accomplished—or how his inventions wove their way into my own family. Tweets: @airpir_southern , @sara...
Experts say the SolarWinds hack shows that the US still has no good answers to combat “supply chain” attacks, which are “ridiculously difficult” to detect
Despite years of warning, the US still has no good answer for the sort of “supply chain” attack that let Russia run wild.
The latest congressional hearing was another parade of bad-faith arguments about Section 230, best illustrated by Senate Republicans mischaracterizing the law
@GiladEdelman https://www.wired.com/... John Kennedy / @senjohnkennedy : If Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg don't employ staff to block them from reading certain material, why don'...
Zuckerberg says Facebook won't moderate Trump differently once he leaves office but spokesman says he'll be fact-checked; Twitter will end special treatment
Many world leaders generally have wider latitude on Twitter and Facebook because their comments and posts are regarded as political speech …