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Joel Weber

@joelwebershow
11 posts
2023-08-19
NEW US @BW COVER! In an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall,” @ZekeFaux descends into a modern-day hell where slaves are being forced to send spammy scam texts https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2023-08-19 View on X
Bloomberg

An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams

of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out peopl...

2023-01-26
NEW @BW COVER! The Humbling of Elon Musk: What happens when a distracted billionaire puts his most valuable asset on autopilot, by @chafkin & @danahull https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
Bloomberg

How Elon Musk's Twitter usage and stewardship is making him toxic for many Tesla customers and shareholders at a time when the company badly needs new business

NEW @BW COVER! The Humbling of Elon Musk: What happens when a distracted billionaire puts his most valuable asset on autopilot, by @chafkin & @danahull https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Elon Musk's team has been exploring selling up to $3B in potential new Twitter shares to help repay some of the $13B in debt tacked on for the buyout

Wall Street Journal :

2022-12-31
A few months ago @BW asked ⁦@matt_levine⁩ to write what became The Crypto Story. Maybe you noticed but then stuff happened! And so we're back with one more thing you should read—a postscript, if you will—about FTX, SBF and toy financial systems. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-12-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance

On Oct. 25, Bloomberg Businessweek published “The Crypto Story,” a cover-to-cover issue of the magazine that I wrote about what crypto is and what it all might mean.

2022-11-30
NEW @BW COVER! When TikTok's Algorithm Turns Deadly: Children keep dying from the blackout challenge. Why isn't the world's most popular app doing more to protect them? by @livcarville https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-30 View on X
Bloomberg

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signs an EO banning TikTok for state agencies, employees, and contractors using state devices over China's “security threat”

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :

NEW @BW COVER! When TikTok's Algorithm Turns Deadly: Children keep dying from the blackout challenge. Why isn't the world's most popular app doing more to protect them? by @livcarville https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-30 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TikTok's role in spreading the “blackout challenge”, leading some kids to choke themselves to death, as critics say the company could be doing more

“Sissy's tangled!”  —  The 5-year-old boy's panicked cries echoed down the hallway of the Arroyos' three-bedroom clapboard house in Milwaukee.

2022-10-09
This is such a good story...and also A TOTAL NIGHTMARE! 👏👏👏, @natalexisw https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at business email compromise scams involving US real estate, and the small Secret Service team that helped recover $244M+ in stolen BEC funds since 2019

For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area. Tweets: @amyokruk ,...

2022-10-07
NEW @BW COVER! Driverless Cars Are Going Nowhere: After all the years and billions spent, we're still not even close to an autonomous future. And detractors are getting louder as the losses get bigger, by @chafkin https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-07 View on X
Bloomberg

After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicles, startups see little progress, falling back on simulations and remote operators as losses mount

2022-09-23
NEW @BW COVER! The Sneaky Genius of Apple's AirPod Empire, by @chafkin https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-23 View on X
The Verge

Apple AirPods Pro (second-gen) review: improved ANC, sound quality, and clarity, but same old design, a Lightning connector, and no major new software features

the same, but also way better Andrew O'Hara / AppleInsider : Apple Watch Ultra is impressive, but can't replace my dive watch just yet Mashable : The new AirPods Pro look old but s...

2021-07-28
NEW @BW COVER! Move Fast and B̶r̶e̶a̶ k̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶n̶ g̶s̶ Obey the Party: China's tech crackdown—and the making of a new model, by @AustinCarr & @cocojournalist https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Insiders suggest China's internet companies, which have long emulated SV's founder-driven model, will align more with China's leadership after tech crackdown

On the fourth floor of a harborside mall on Grand Cayman, not far from touristy scuba-diving outlets and a jerk-chicken shack …

2021-06-15
NEW @BW COVER! Airbnb's Nightmare: Violent crimes, millions of dollars in settlements, and a stressed-out team that keeps the bad things quiet, by @livcarville https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Interviews with 53 people shed light on Airbnb's secretive safety team, made up of ~100 agents, some with military backgrounds, who handle emergency situations

The first-floor apartment on West 37th Street, a few blocks south of Times Square, was popular with tourists …