Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory”
Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer :
Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory”
Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/...
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”
lets be honest—isn't any less “brand safe” than two weeks ago. But it's an unspoken rule of Serious Media that we report the weather, we don't make it. https://twitter.com/... @cab...
French director Marion Siéfert blames Meta's policies for banning livestreams of her “Instagram play” about teenage sexuality, even though it contains no nudity
Laura Cappelle / New York Times : Tweets: @jilliancyork , @jeremyoharris , @bloggeronpole , @lauracappelle , @rasmus_kleis , @mischabreslin , and @bloggeronpole Tweets: @jilliancy...
Some employees say that Musk sounded genuinely enthusiastic about owning and running Twitter, but the meeting reinforced their mostly negative beliefs about him
Musk says he has big plans for the company. Employees wonder how he'll achieve them
Profile of artist Seneca, who says she is the lead designer behind the original Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection and has seen relatively little compensation
Facebook says it now counts activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures to help protect them and will remove sexual content targeting celebrities
Todd Spangler / Variety : Source: About Facebook .
Nick Clegg says that Facebook will put “more friends, less politics” in News Feed and will “nudge” teens away from toxic Instagram content
Whistleblower Frances Haugen accepts an invitation to brief Facebook's Oversight Board, which she claims Facebook has lied to “repeatedly”
Ivana Saric / Axios : Source: Oversight Board .
Nick Clegg says that Facebook will put “more friends, less politics” in News Feed and will “nudge” teens away from toxic Instagram content
Fighting back after a whistleblower's damning testimony earlier this week before a Congressional committee …
Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats
Read in app Isaiah Poritz / OpenSecrets.org : Facebook maintained big lobbying expenses ahead of Senate hearing on teen social media use Robin Raskin / Techonomy : Instagram for Ki...
Nick Clegg defended Facebook in an internal memo as the whistleblower who shared company documents with Congress and WSJ is set to appear on CBS' 60 Minutes
In an internal memo, Facebook defended itself and said that social media was not a primary cause of polarization. — Read in app
Nick Clegg says Facebook will release two internal slide decks central to WSJ's story on Instagram's impact on teens to the public “in the next few days”
Facebook will publish two internal slide decks detailing its research into how Instagram affects teens' mental health sometime “in the next few days.” Source: YouTube .
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is pausing work on Instagram Kids, after criticism from parents, experts, regulators, policymakers, and others
Good morning! This Tuesday, Facebook says Instagram isn't bad for teens … Ben Lyons / Gamereactor UK : Development of Instagram Kids has been paused Barbara Ortutay / NBC Bay Area...
Despite passing a tough online abuse law, researchers say social networks in Germany are full of hate speech and harassment ahead of a September 26 election
Scrolling through her social media feed, Laura Dornheim is regularly stopped cold by a new blast of abuse aimed at her …
Facebook launches $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses in six countries including the US; users can capture photo and video, listen to music, or take phone calls
Oversight Board reverses a decision banning an Instagram post that criticized solitary confinement, after finding Facebook “lost” a policy exception for 3 years
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Analysis of Trump's social media engagement before and after bans shows a significant drop but some posts still receive equal engagement due to amplification
When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones.
An overview of Russia's increasingly aggressive attempts to control Google, Facebook, and Twitter, ordering them to store data in Russia and imposing fines
Instagram and Twitter apologize for deleting pro-Palestinian posts, blaming technical errors, but critics say their “discriminatory” algorithms are to blame
Maya Gebeily / Reuters :