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Charlie Warzel

@cwarzel
351 posts
2026-03-07
there are plenty of moral/ethical reasons to not like prediction markets but the thing that's most interesting to me is the way that they are a machine that destroys trust.  by democratizing insider trading everyone assumes the fix is always in.  it's corrosive!  www.theatlantic.com/technology/ 2...
2026-03-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers

The House always wins.  The same is not true for the Frat House.Ethan Gach /Kotaku:Kalshi Reportedly Paid 15-Year-Old Gamer To Promote Online Betting Until Its Legal Department Sai...

there are plenty of moral/ethical reasons to not like prediction markets but the thing that's most interesting to me is the way that they are a machine that destroys trust.  by democratizing insider trading everyone assumes the fix is always in.  it's corrosive!  www.theatlantic.com/technology/ 2...
2026-03-07 View on X
NPR

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow

There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket.  —  Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …

2026-03-06
there are plenty of moral/ethical reasons to not like prediction markets but the thing that's most interesting to me is the way that they are a machine that destroys trust.  by democratizing insider trading everyone assumes the fix is always in.  it's corrosive!  www.theatlantic.com/technology/ 2...
2026-03-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers

Kalshi and Polymarket pour money into deals with social-media influencers and students, who try to parlay rumors, insider information into cash; 'We know this shouldn't be allowed'

2025-11-25
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend.  A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
2025-11-25 View on X
Techdirt

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints

from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept  —  For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …

2025-06-06
a pretty great admission by Musk that, despite being a mega donor and shadow president for a month there, he's completely unaware of the dynamics of american politics. he was merely audience captured by the only people who could stand him anymore and now he's gonna alienate them too [embedded post]
2025-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates

Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump.  What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...

2025-02-12
From a person w/ intimate knowledge of the FAA's technical systems.  To say they're concerned is an understatement.  These are systems you do not fuck around with.  Even small, subtle changes, can ripple through systems which all feed into each other, and keep planes in the sky, freight being delivered
2025-02-12 View on X
Foreign Policy

DOGE accessing Treasury systems and classified data breaks a fundamental security principle and could help the US' adversaries steal data and install backdoors

The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE.  Their warnings were dire.  The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified.  “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country's history—at least that's publicly known.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2025-02-12 View on X
Foreign Policy

DOGE accessing Treasury systems and classified data breaks a fundamental security principle and could help the US' adversaries steal data and install backdoors

The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.

2025-02-08
glad that the 19 year old who might have access to some of the government's most sensitive data has a past of leaking documents to competitors, doing cybercrimes, and sucking at doing those crimes.  good stuff.  [embedded post]
2025-02-08 View on X
Krebs on Security

Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) …

2025-01-11
about 10 min into Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview (what a cool sentence to type!) and my impression is that zuckerberg seems just very relaxed and himself in a way i haven't seen before. dunno the guy but he at least appears to be genuinely comfortable leaning into anti-institutional grievance
2025-01-11 View on X
CNBC

On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …

2025-01-10
man say what you will about x but at least they're like unapologetically full woke mind virus.  this is some bleak, bankrupt stuff right here.  www.platformer.news/meta-new- tra...  [image]
2025-01-10 View on X
Platformer

Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like “a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it”

“A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it,” reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram

man say what you will about x but at least they're like unapologetically full woke mind virus.  this is some bleak, bankrupt stuff right here.  www.platformer.news/meta-new- tra...  [image]
2025-01-10 View on X
The Intercept

A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …

2025-01-05
i see lots of people debating whether this guy is real but they're missing the point which is that this article contains the sentence: “The family recently opened a solar-powered maritime lifestyle service warehouse for superyachts.”  [embedded post]
2025-01-05 View on X
The Spectator World

Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji

An Elon Musk fan in Fiji tricks the world  —  The AI avatar for the Adrian Dittmann X account, left, and Adrian Dittmann appearing …

2024-12-12
I wrote about crypto.  The knock has been that the technology has few use cases.  But, post-election I think crypto's legacy is clearer.  Its killer app is creating a money/influence flywheel for a specific type of reactionary anti-institutionalist to influence politics. …
2024-12-12 View on X
The Atlantic

The crypto industry's impact on the 2024 US elections shows that crypto is a perfect anti-establishment technology for the turbulence and distrust of the 2020s

An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age  —  For years, crypto skeptics have asked, What is this for? Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Threads: @cwarzel Masto...

2024-10-31
Wrote about X's Election Integrity Community which is the purest distillation of using this platform as an efficient incitement machine/bullshit/paranoia engine. And how it is so very clear that this chaos is the return on Musk's $44 billion investment https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-10-31 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at X's Election Integrity Community, a feed to “share potential incidents of voter fraud” that has 50K+ members, launched by Elon Musk's America PAC

Elon Musk didn't just get a social network—he got a political weapon.  —  It's easy to forget that Elon Musk's purchase …

2024-10-16
i think its prob because i spent the weekend getting deluged because of a widely circulated fake headline for an article I never wrote that went viral...but this frame 'there's little you can do to stop them' feels very resonant right now. there are consequences with non-consensual imagery/text and impersonation stuff …
2024-10-16 View on X
Wired

A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service

Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.

2024-09-17
this is basically just saying: my group chats are an 8chan board
2024-09-17 View on X
Newsweek

Elon Musk posted “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔” on X and deleted the false claim after it garnered 34M+ views, claiming it was a “joke”

which he made after the second apparent assassination attempt on former Pres. Trump — Musk, who owns the platform, responded to a user who asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trum...

2024-09-16
this is basically just saying: my group chats are an 8chan board
2024-09-16 View on X
Newsweek

Musk posted “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔” after Trump's apparent assassination attempt, then deleted the false claim, calling it a joke

Elon Musk has faced backlash after writing, “No one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” following an apparent

2024-08-28
I went back today to this old @semaforben column from March 2020 where MZ (like others) saw those first terrifying days of the pandemic as very clarifying.  It was hard for him and others to imagine in those moments that covid would become as politicized and polarized as it did. …
2024-08-28 View on X
Business Insider

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platfor...

MZ has never wanted to have facebook make editorial decisions (even though they are, always, as a result of building, tweaking a platform). this feels to me just like a revert to the 2018 posture from FB. …
2024-08-28 View on X
Business Insider

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platfor...

I dunno what all of this means exactly...but i don't know that is see this as a reactionary right wing turn for MZ...i think he's just always had this (imo not very sophisticated) understanding of FB as a non-editorial entity and is reverting his opinions because enough time has passed from what he views as an ‘emergency’ moment
2024-08-28 View on X
Business Insider

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platfor...