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Elizabeth Dwoskin

@lizzadwoskin
103 posts
2025-01-22
EXCLUSIVE: The inside story of the Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE break-up: Deep philosophical differences and a power grab. Musk wanted to technology to break the govt, Ramaswamy wanted to use the law. W/my always awesome partners @faizsays @JStein_WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2025-01-22 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate spurred Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's January 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision

A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk to run the group.

2024-12-30
EXCLUSIVE: Sharing my investigation into how Israel's secretive 8200 intelligence unit built “AI factories” for war. Years before October 7, commanders debated whether “the man was replaced by the machine.” 🧵 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-12-30 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail the IDF's Unit 8200, which identifies human targets as candidates for elimination amid the Israel-Hamas war; one source calls it an “AI factory”

Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground …

Some former IDF leaders believe the “religious focus” on AI caused intelligence to take its eye off the ball, leaving them unprepared on Oct. 7.
2024-12-30 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail the IDF's Unit 8200, which identifies human targets as candidates for elimination amid the Israel-Hamas war; one source calls it an “AI factory”

Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground …

An insider's history of how they built “AI factories,” starting around 2019-2020, to prepare largely for an anticipated conflict with Hezbollah.
2024-12-30 View on X
Washington Post

Sources detail the IDF's Unit 8200, which identifies human targets as candidates for elimination amid the Israel-Hamas war; one source calls it an “AI factory”

Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground …

2024-11-25
Advising DOGE: Andreessen and Lonsdale (passing names, recruiting), Bill Ackman (advice), Travis Kalanick & Emil (Uber crew), Steve Davis and Antonio Gracias (Musk-biz world). NEW via me ⁦⁦@JStein_WaPo⁩ ⁦@faizsays⁩ ⁦@jacobbogage⁩ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-11-25 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Bill Ackman, Travis Kalanick, and others are involved in the Department of Government Efficiency; Marc Andreessen is a networker for talent recruitment

Markets Cheer Trump's Treasury Pick Bluesky: Michael J. Stern / @michaeljstern.bsky.social : I've got a suggestion for how Elon Musk can reduce the government deficit: Start paying...

2023-10-29
Exactly one year ago, Elon Musk bought Twitter to rid it of a “woke mind virus” and to turn around the business. Today the biz is tanking - and we have new data to prove it. But its longer “woke.” Via me @WillOremus @sarahellison @jeremybmerrill https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-29 View on X
Washington Post

A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as the hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes

The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.”  He has succeeded at only one of those goals.

2023-10-23
The backstory of the recent string of coups in Africa is Russian disinformation. This never-told spy vs. spy tale- w/wild deets like getting people to play avatars in the real world - reveals how it happens. Been working on this for two years! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-23 View on X
Washington Post

How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region using wide-ranging online disinformation campaigns

A story I've been reporting for 2 yrs came out. Crazy tale about the exploding biz of disinfo-for-hire. Israeli firm creates an avatar to snag Russians. Avatar is so convincing that the Russians want to meet him! So they find a real person to play him... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-23 View on X
Washington Post

How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region using wide-ranging online disinformation campaigns

Years ago Googlers protested the company's military contracts. Now a generation of AI companies faces the same questions, via ⁦@GerritD⁩ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-23 View on X
Washington Post

A profile of data labeler Scale AI, which has a $249M contract with the US DoD and was the first AI company to have an LLM deployed on a classified network

the tech behind chatbots such as ChatGPT — deployed on a classified network after it signed a deal with the Army's XVIII Airborne Corps.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Charle...

2023-10-22
A story I've been reporting for 2 yrs came out. Crazy tale about the exploding biz of disinfo-for-hire. Israeli firm creates an avatar to snag Russians. Avatar is so convincing that the Russians want to meet him! So they find a real person to play him... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-22 View on X
Washington Post

How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region of Africa using online disinformation campaigns

This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments.

The backstory of the recent string of coups in Africa is Russian disinformation. This never-told spy vs. spy tale- w/wild deets like getting people to play avatars in the real world - reveals how it happens. Been working on this for two years! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-22 View on X
Washington Post

How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region of Africa using online disinformation campaigns

This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments.

2023-10-16
In the Hamas-Israel conflict, much of the swirling misinformation is directed inward, a product of Israel's deep polarization. Hamas supporters are even resharing posts from Israeli far right influencers, taking advantage of the disunity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-16 View on X
Washington Post

How social media is inducing an Israel-Hamas fog of war surpassing previous Gaza clashes, shaping how panicked citizens and a global public view the conflict

The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult to assess what is real.

2023-10-15
In the Hamas-Israel conflict, much of the swirling misinformation is directed inward, a product of Israel's deep polarization. Hamas supporters are even resharing posts from Israeli far right influencers, taking advantage of the disunity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-15 View on X
Washington Post

How social media is inducing a fog of war surpassing previous clashes between Israel and Hamas, shaping the views of panicked citizens and a global public

The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult to assess what is real.

2023-08-07
Elon killed Black Twitter. What happens to the “digital diaspora” (h/t @DocDre) in its wake — and to leftwing activism itself? My first story since coming back from mat leave, W/@SpillMob @Toure @WesleyLowery @Phonz @ReignOfApril @meredithdclark: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-08-07 View on X
Washington Post

Black Twitter users have become a “digital diaspora” searching for a replacement after Elon Musk's takeover, such as Mastodon, Threads, Spoutible, and Fanbase

The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a “digital diaspora” in search of a new home.

2023-01-02
NEW: Facebook has spent the last several years bashing China. Now it needs it factories to make hardware. Via Me & @cdcshepherd https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-02 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Meta is struggling to move hardware manufacturing out of China; after abandoning its smartwatch plans, the company is still working on a wrist wearable

2023-01-01
NEW: Facebook has spent the last several years bashing China. Now it needs it factories to make hardware. Via Me & @cdcshepherd https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-01 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Meta is struggling to move hardware manufacturing out of China; after abandoning its smartwatch plans, the company is still working on a wrist wearable

The company needs China's factories as it pushes to become a hardware producer  —  SAN FRANCISCO — For more than a year … Tweets: @lizzadwoskin , @geoffreyfowler , @pstasiatech , a...

2022-11-19
Reminder that in some of the documents we reported on weeks ago, Elon's plan was always to get Twitter's staff to just 10% of what it was before acquisition through firings and creating an environment in which massive attrition would take place
2022-11-19 View on X
New York Times

Sources: some internal estimates show 1,200+ full-time Twitter employees resigned on November 17; Twitter previously laid off ~3,700 of 7,500 staff

Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter's underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.

“New” Twitter policy??? Twitter has been using this exact phrasing and approach since at least 2018. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-19 View on X
@elonmusk

[Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee

This week has been a week.  Okay, let's just get into it.  —  Twitter needs to die Derek Saul / Forbes : ‘Freedom Of Speech, But Not Freedom Of Reach’: Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffi...

Reminder that in some of the documents we reported on weeks ago, Elon's plan was always to get Twitter's staff to just 10% of what it was before acquisition through firings and creating an environment in which massive attrition would take place
2022-11-19 View on X
The Verge

Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum

Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick /...

2022-11-05
Twitter's internal slack right now is one long stream of blue one team hearts - the symbol of goodbye
2022-11-05 View on X
Platformer

Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs

I. The Snap  —  The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday.  —  For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …