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Matthew Sheffield

@mattsheffield
34 posts
2025-11-04
Trump admitting that all the “auto pen” stuff about Biden was a projection by Republicans. He signs things that his handlers tell him to. It's that simple.
2025-11-04 View on X
Decrypt

When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt”

but CBS cuts it from broadcast Caitlin Keith / Deseret News : 3 takeaways from Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Trump says he doesn't know who Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is Stev...

2025-11-03
Trump admitting that all the “auto pen” stuff about Biden was a projection by Republicans. He signs things that his handlers tell him to. It's that simple.
2025-11-03 View on X
Decrypt

When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt”

In a rare interview, Trump said he was told Changpeng Zhao was the victim of the Biden administration's “witch hunt” against crypto.

2025-01-21
Trump's public speeches and promises mean nothing. Don't waste your time paying attention to them. Focus on his executive orders and the actual legislation he's pushing. This EO is pure authoritarianism, a massive investigation into supposed “censorship” https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
2025-01-21 View on X
Washington Post

Donald Trump signs an EO ending “federal censorship” of online platforms, and directs the AG to investigate if the Biden admin censored US citizens' free speech

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...  [image] Ryan Goodman / @rgoodlaw : This Executive Order appears to be the executive branch taking up the work of Jim Jordan's weaponization of g...

2024-03-17
It's not just you: Online dating has gotten drastically more awful and expensive. Excellent reported commentary from @magdajtaylor on how vulture capitalism is ruining online dating https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-03-17 View on X
New York Times

A look at the collapse of dating apps' usability, which can be blamed on the paid subscription model and the near monopoly the apps have over the dating world

“The golden age of dating apps is over,” a friend told me at a bar on Super Bowl Sunday.  As we waited for our drinks … X: @gayathriv , @nytopinion , @mattsheffield , @nytopinion ,...

2023-03-10
Far right Catholic activists used unregulated mobile tracking data to spy on Catholic priests suspected of being gay so that their lives can be destroyed. I'd bet that the “cancel culture” grifters won't even mention this horrific abuse: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-03-10 View on X
Washington Post

An investigation details how a group of conservative Colorado Catholics spent millions to buy mobile app tracking data to identify priests using gay dating apps

2023-03-08
Elon Musk claims (falsely) to be against censorship. Meanwhile, Twitter shut down its Tor service that allows people to access the site anonymously to evade government censorship. There's no word yet as to why, but almost certainly it was to save money https://www.vice.com/...
2023-03-08 View on X
The Verge

Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy-preserving and speech-protecting service after one year

Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.

2023-02-03
There are tens of thousands of incredibly useful Twitter bot accounts that people love. While Elon Musk's desperate greed is going to end the joy & utility they bring to others here, his announcement will likely make many of them #JoinMastodon where the API will always be free.
2023-02-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter plans to discontinue free access to its API starting on February 9, ending support for both v1.1 and v2, and launch a “paid basic tier” instead

This week I spent too many minutes watching Nothing, Forever, which is a Twitch stream that runs 24/7. Mastodon: Kate Starbird / @katestarbird@mstdn.social : Looks like Twitter is ...

There are tens of thousands of incredibly useful Twitter bot accounts that people love. While Elon Musk's desperate greed is going to end the joy & utility they bring to others here, his announcement will likely make many of them #JoinMastodon where the API will always be free.
2023-02-03 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more

“I'm not paying a dime to Elon lol.”  —  Pranav Dixit  —  One of the most popular bots on Twitter is @MakeItAQuote, which has more than 565,000 followers.

2023-01-24
Besides making lots of errors, the AI text generator behind scads of articles published by @CNET and @Bankrate also appears to have plagiarized writing from other sites https://futurism.com/...
2023-01-24 View on X
Futurism

An investigation finds extensive evidence that AI used by CNET appears to have plagiarized the work of competitors and human writers at Bankrate and even CNET

CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors.  They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.

2023-01-15
Amid the hours of childish giggling and boring drivel, Elon Musk's best friends have provided a window into a shared worldview that is unintentionally absurd and astonishingly selfish. It's worth seeing up close in article form rather than subject yourself to the show. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-15 View on X
Slate

How popular tech podcast All-In, with hosts Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and David Friedberg, gives some insight into Elon Musk's Twitter

Nitish Pahwa / Slate :

2023-01-14
Amid the hours of childish giggling and boring drivel, Elon Musk's best friends have provided a window into a shared worldview that is unintentionally absurd and astonishingly selfish. It's worth seeing up close in article form rather than subject yourself to the show. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-14 View on X
Slate

How All-In, the popular tech podcast moderated by Jason Calacanis and his billionaire pals, gives an insight into Twitter under Elon Musk

On Nov. 7, about a week after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the staff, a company vice president offered a group of concerned employees …

2022-12-18
This was always a lie, but tonight made it obvious. Elon Musk is a reactionary extremist who hates real free speech. He wants to make this site a safe space for neo-nazis, liars, spammers, morons, and scammers. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-18 View on X
The Verge

Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”

(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.)  Out of the two poll options, “now” …

2022-12-17
This was always a lie, but tonight made it obvious. Elon Musk is a reactionary extremist who hates real free speech. He wants to make this site a safe space for neo-nazis, liars, spammers, morons, and scammers. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-17 View on X
The Verge

Twitter begins reactivating some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now”, beating “in 7 days”

(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.)  Out of the two poll options, “now” …

This was always a lie, but tonight made it obvious. Elon Musk is a reactionary extremist who hates real free speech. He wants to make this site a safe space for neo-nazis, liars, spammers, morons, and scammers. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-17 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions

just so transparent https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Friendship ended with KATIE https://twitter.com/... Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas : audio of elon musk joining @kati...

2022-12-16
This was always a lie, but tonight made it obvious. Elon Musk is a reactionary extremist who hates real free speech. He wants to make this site a safe space for neo-nazis, liars, spammers, morons, and scammers. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

This was always a lie, but tonight made it obvious. Elon Musk is a reactionary extremist who hates real free speech. He wants to make this site a safe space for neo-nazis, liars, spammers, morons, and scammers. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Elon Musk briefly showed up to a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after reporters asked him questions

The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.

2022-12-15
Yet another instance of Elon Musk being exposed for censoring speech that he doesn't like. Like all right-wing activists, when he says “free speech,” he means having his views promoted, not creating an equal public square. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet

Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …

Yet another instance of Elon Musk being exposed for censoring speech that he doesn't like. Like all right-wing activists, when he says “free speech,” he means having his views promoted, not creating an equal public square. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-15 View on X
New York Times

Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”

The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.

2022-11-04
Looks like someone is trying to service his acquisition debt. But tbh if they're using Amazon services, dropping that overpriced stuff would easily help. It's astounding to me that so many companies remain on S3 and other Amazon services that offer such poor value. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-04 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Elon Musk weighs adding paid DMs to let users privately message “Very Important Tweeters”; docs show Twitter Blue checks won't require ID verification

The billionaire and his advisers have discussed adding paid direct messages, fees to watch videos and other features to the service.

2022-10-29
Donald Trump is still suing Twitter for banning him. And the arguments he's using to have it treated as a “common carrier” completely contradict the capricious and biased manner in which Truth Social regularly bans people. Via @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/...
2022-10-29 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.