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Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64
11 posts
2025-10-14
Credit where it's due to @GavinNewsom and shame on the California legislature for passing this.
2025-10-14 View on X
Politico

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 771, which would've fined social media companies up to $1M if their algorithms promoted violent or extremist content

To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 771 without my signature. Sophia Bollag / GovTech : California Governor Signs New Artificial Intelligence ...

2022-11-21
No matter what college administrators do wrong their answer will be to direct still more money to their administrative bureaucracy. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-21 View on X
New York Times

Online sports betting companies are cutting big deals with US colleges to promote gambling to students, like Caesars Sportsbook's $8.4M deal with Michigan State

In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling.

2022-06-19
And that's how the Meta story ends: in a highly exclusive virtual retirement home where Mark Zuckerberg and his former Harvard classmates rate the hotness of one another's couture-clad avatars. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta unveils Avatars Store, where users can buy digital clothes for avatars, and plans to make it a marketplace where developers can create and sell clothing

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.”

2022-06-18
And that's how the Meta story ends: in a highly exclusive virtual retirement home where Mark Zuckerberg and his former Harvard classmates rate the hotness of one another's couture-clad avatars. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta unveils Avatars Store, where users can buy digital clothes for avatars, and plans to make it a marketplace where developers can create and sell clothing

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.”

2022-04-15
Also fascinating how little the same people are concerned by TikTok's ownership https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-15 View on X
The Information

Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting the company will fight the bid

Amir Efrati / The Information :

2021-03-29
One great thing about America: every citizen is powerful enough to heckle U.S. Senators with snotty tweets anytime we want, and when a Senator suggests she will change that, she is abusing her power. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-29 View on X
Vox

Sources: Amazon's recent tweets aimed at politicians came after Bezos told execs they were not pushing back enough on criticism that was inaccurate

Snarky tweets targeting Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came after the CEO told executives they weren't pushing back hard enough on critics.

One great thing about America: every citizen is powerful enough to heckle U.S. Senators with snotty tweets anytime we want, and when a Senator suggests she will change that, she is abusing her power. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-29 View on X
Bloomberg

After a monthslong campaign, the union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, AL, has concluded and vote counting begins on Tuesday, overseen by the NLRB

- A tussle over ballot eligibility could last for several days  — With stakes high, Amazon and union waged testy information war

2021-01-10
A thought exercise for *this is an easy question* folks on the left: if Peter Thiel were CEO of Twitter or Facebook, would you still think *removing a politician who acts very badly has no at least concerning implications beyond the case in question*? Of course not.
2021-01-10 View on X
Washington Post

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 …

2021-01-09
A thought exercise for *this is an easy question* folks on the left: if Peter Thiel were CEO of Twitter or Facebook, would you still think *removing a politician who acts very badly has no at least concerning implications beyond the case in question*? Of course not.
2021-01-09 View on X
The Verge

Twitter says it has permanently suspended Trump's @realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”

The president's preferred megaphone is gone  —  Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump Friday days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving four dead.

2020-10-15
This would have resulted in censoring the Pentagon Papers https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-15 View on X
@twittersafety

[Thread] Twitter clarifies why it blocked the sharing of NY Post's Biden story, saying it contained private info and violated its Hacked Materials Policy

We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we've taken with respect to two NY Post articles that were first Tweeted this morning.

This would have resulted in censoring the Pentagon Papers https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-15 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Facebook limits the distribution of a New York Post story that makes disputed claims about Hunter Biden, pending fact-check, while Twitter blocks sharing

Facebook and Twitter said they will be limiting the distribution of or blocking a New York Post story making unverified claims about former vice president Joe Biden.