Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers mainly in the Asia-Pacific region as part of an attempt to rid Twitter of spam
PLUS: Why it's time to start leaving Twitter behind — On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted a vague warning: “the bots are in for a surprise tomorrow.” Tweets: @elonmusk , @elonmusk , @ju...
Doreen Bogdan-Martin's election to the UN's ITU, beating the Russian candidate, signals support for a US-backed open internet, but significant issues remain
Open-internet advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a recent election for the International Telecommunications Union's top leadership. Tweets: @justin_ling Tweets: Justin ...
Parler agrees to be acquired by Ye, formerly Kanye West, to create “an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome”; the deal is set to close in Q4 2022
and will also sign up to Truth Social Clare Duffy / CNN : Kanye West's biggest challenge with owning Parler may come from Elon Musk Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times : What to kno...
A look at the vote for secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union between a US and a Russian candidate, and its open web implications
or whether autocratic countries like Russia and China get to set the rules. https://www.wired.com/... Margrethe Vestager / @vestager : .@ITU is here to ensure that #DigitalConnecti...
Meta says Instagram is testing a change with select users that turns video posts into Reels, as part of “efforts to simplify and improve the video experience”
Instagram is testing a change that turns video posts into Reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
Internal documents: Facebook's AI has minimal success enforcing its rules against problematic content, including removing an estimated 3%-5% of hate speech
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Developer says Facebook banned him for life and threatened to sue after he made Unfollow Everything, a browser extension to help people use Facebook less
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Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours
Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now …
Analysis: the wallet used by DarkSide received a total of $17.5M in Bitcoin transactions since March, including a 75 BTC payment made by Colonial
Elliptic's Co-founder and Chief Scientist discusses cryptocurrency forensics, investigations, compliance, and sanctions.
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …