2022-06-16
In 2019, I investigated the gulf between what Elon Musk would like you to believe about the safety of Tesla's “Autopilot” software and what experts feared to be a dramatic undercount of collisions:https://www.theinformation.c om/ ... Today NHTSA confirmed those fears: https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
NHTSA data from July 1, 2021, to May 15, 2022: six people died in 392 incidents involving driver-assistance tech; Teslas were in 273 crashes and five were fatal
2022-03-05
The rebuke of the company by shareholders comes after Apple told the SEC in writing that its “policy is to not use” concealment clauses. Many employment attorneys knew this wasn't true. But it wasn't until @cherthedev broke her NDA that they had proof: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Bloomberg
Apple shareholders vote to approve proposals on civil rights audits and the use of NDAs in employment agreements, and Tim Cook's ~$99M compensation package
Apple investors pass two proposals after worker controversy Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑DeWitt : Meet Apple's least popular board members Veronica Irwin / Protocol : Apple s...
2021-10-28
Former FB employee to @CaseyNewton: “To me it seems like the @WSJ just about exhausted all the substantive research, and (with a couple of exceptions) the Consortium has been kind of stuck just trying to build stories out of these random comment threads.” https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Facebook tells employees to preserve internal docs and communications related to its business since 2016, as governments and legislative bodies begin inquiries
New York Times :
Former FB employee to @CaseyNewton: “To me it seems like the @WSJ just about exhausted all the substantive research, and (with a couple of exceptions) the Consortium has been kind of stuck just trying to build stories out of these random comment threads.” https://twitter.com/...
Platformer
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
Casey Newton / Platformer :
2021-10-27
Former FB employee to @CaseyNewton: “To me it seems like the @WSJ just about exhausted all the substantive research, and (with a couple of exceptions) the Consortium has been kind of stuck just trying to build stories out of these random comment threads.” https://twitter.com/...
Platformer
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks
2021-10-25
It's 2021 and I, for one, find this enormously reassuring. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen tells @benyt that she “auditioned” WSJ's @JeffHorwitz, “and one of the reasons I went with him is that he was less sensationalistic” than other reporters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Frances Haugen maximized the impact of her leaked Facebook documents, rolling them out to WSJ and then broadening the circle to a large group of outlets
In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive …
2021-10-11
“If you're interested in a company, of course you're interested in who owns them and what's under them,” he says. “Because if you don't know those things, then you're not actually knowing what that company is doing.” - @_jack_poulson https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Fast Company
Profile of Jack Poulson, a former Google researcher who exposes tech company ties with the US military, as the head of the Tech Inquiry nonprofit
Jack Poulson has developed an encyclopedic knowledge of how tech companies are evolving into military contractors. Tweets: @fastcotech , @mattdrange , @fastcompany , and @seancapta...
2021-10-07
Whistleblowers have upended virtually every corner of Silicon Valley in recent years. The headlines are impossible to miss. But for many tech workers, *how* whistleblowers come forward is a mystery. A new handbook published today aims to change that: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.
Whistleblowers have upended virtually every corner of Silicon Valley in recent years. The headlines are impossible to miss. But for many tech workers, *how* whistleblowers come forward is a mystery. A new handbook published today aims to change that: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
YouTube
Video of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee
2021-03-25
A savvy #FOIA appeal by @PlainSite for “any investigative materials ... pertaining to the various SoftBank companies controlled by Masayoshi Son, specifically relating to SoftBank's trading of stocks and derivatives on those stocks” nets results: https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
The SEC confirms it is investigating SoftBank, according to the SEC's response to a FOIA request; SoftBank was alleged to be a “Nasdaq whale” last year
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE :
2021-03-10
“Some of the cameras, including in hospitals, use facial-recognition technology to identify and categorize people captured on the footage. The hackers say they also have access to the full video archive of all Verkada customers.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Hackers say they breached Verkada, accessing feeds and archives of 150K surveillance cameras inside clinics, police precincts, jails, schools, Tesla facilities
- Hacker group says it wanted to show prevalence of surveillance — Video footage was captured from Sequoia-backed startup Verkada
2021-02-25
When Facebook marked the page as verified w/ a blue check mark, “created negative coverage on Turkish pro-government media.” When FB “removed the check mark, it in turn ‘created negative coverage [in] English language media including on Huffington Post.’” https://www.propublica.org/...
ProPublica
Emails show how Facebook responded to requests by Turkey to censor content during the authoritarian government's 2018 military offensive against Kurds
or risk getting shut down entirely. “I am fine with this,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg. My latest with @JustinElliott: https://www.propublica.org/... Jane Lytvynenko / @janelytv : “I am ...
2021-01-30
The latest entry in a long line of examples where pro-#Huawei messaging isn't always what it seems ... “The effort suggests a new twist in social media manipulation”: https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Graphika: Huawei officials retweeted messages from fake accounts on Twitter to spread a pro-5G influence campaign in Belgium; Huawei is investigating the claim
A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation. Source: Graphika .
2020-04-09
Here's the expected savings from today's mass layoffs at Eventbrite, per the company's latest note to $EB investors: https://investor.eventbrite.com/ ... Shares rose about 10% today after @protocol broke the news this morning: https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
Online ticketing service Eventbrite says it will lay off 45% of its employees; sources say Eventbrite has over 1,000 staff
Matt Drange / Protocol :
Here's the full statement from an @eventbrite spokeswoman confirming our story this morning: https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
Online ticketing service Eventbrite says it will lay off 45% of its employees; sources say Eventbrite has over 1,000 staff
Matt Drange / Protocol :
More details up on @protocol, here: https://www.protocol.com/... Eventbrite's stock has fallen off a cliff during the #coronavirus pandemic. A LOT of jobs are about to end as a result. As of this morning, the company had a little more than 1,000 employees. https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
Online ticketing service Eventbrite says it will lay off 45% of its employees; sources say Eventbrite has over 1,000 staff
Matt Drange / Protocol :
“We're calling it Blood Orange Wednesday” Eventbrite is laying off half its workforce, about 500 people total The sales team is decimated, along with field operations team and customer success team (much of which was relocated to Nashville in recent yrs) https://www.protocol.com/...
Protocol
Online ticketing service Eventbrite says it will lay off 45% of its employees; sources say Eventbrite has over 1,000 staff
Matt Drange / Protocol :
2020-03-01
Reading this hilarious @bizcarson story reminds me: did we ever figure out who was behind the “Jesus Christ Silicon Valley” blog? @jesus94306 hasn't published since 2013 but I'm still *dying* to know. My DM's are open, ya'll ... https://jesuschristsiliconvalley- blog.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas ,...
2020-02-19
Judge finds that while “senators made ‘concerning comments’ regarding Huawei, including remarks that the company deserved ‘the death penalty,’ the words of individual lawmakers could not be interpreted as speaking for Congress at large.” via @StevenOverly https://subscriber.politicopro.com/ ...
Politico
Judge rules that Huawei does not have grounds to sue the US government over a law banning federal agencies and their contractors from buying Huawei products
A federal judge ruled today that Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei does not have grounds to sue the U.S. government …
2020-02-15
UPDATE Senator Bob Menendez issues a scathing statement in response to our story: “No level of gun sales on Facebook or any other social media platform is acceptable. Period.” https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
Gun sales continue on Facebook and Instagram after 2016 ban as sellers keep finding workarounds that evade Facebook's algorithm
Matt Drange / Protocol : Tweets: @mattdrange , @protocol , @popularmechani4 , @mattdrange , @protocol , @issielapowsky , @mattdrange , @senatormenendez , and @atharproject Tweets:...