TTP data: US anti-government militia activity has grown on Facebook, with the platform even auto-generating some group pages, despite users flagging the issue
Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts … X: Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj : Important...
How Figma is adding AI into its products, including launching FigJam AI in public beta in November to help improve meetings with summaries, next steps, and more
by everyone from companies to cutting-edge researchers. …
How Figma is adding AI into its products, including launching FigJam AI in public beta in November to help improve meetings with summaries, next steps, and more
by everyone from companies to cutting-edge researchers. …
BuzzFeed debuts Botatouille, a free chatbot that suggests recipes from its food brand Tasty, and plans to offer AI-personalized services to sell subscriptions
Sources: the US DOJ launched a criminal probe into Tesla in 2021 that is still underway, following over a dozen crashes, some fatal, with Autopilot activated
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company's electric vehicles can drive themselves …
[Thread] A tech startup founder describes how he made ~$200K in 2021 by ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists, as a side hustle for five hours per week
👻 Ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists is the side hustle of the founder of a tech startup (who asked to remain anonymous). Last year he made about $200,000. Here's how he d...
After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicles, startups see little progress, falling back on simulations and remote operators as losses mount
Meta confirms a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months
A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential …
A look at the self-righteous anger in the Web3 community over the identification of the founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection
The self-righteous anger over the identification of the founders of a popular NFT club says a lot about the web3 battles to come in the years ahead.
As Substack expands abroad, writers say it needs local payment options and customer service in other languages; some worry about legal support in hostile states
Substack strikes deals with trans writers, amid claims it supports allegedly anti-trans writers and is a kind of lucrative off ramp for “cancel culture” victims
A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions.
Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year
At an end-of-year, company-wide meeting, Facebook said it is working on TLDR, an AI tool that would summarize longform articles in bullet points
Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
Facebook insiders say it is prioritizing revenue over user safety by its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers, and disinfo peddlers from buying ads
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Facebook confirms it has stopped recommending that people join online groups dealing with political or social issues in the lead up to Election Day
“This is a measure we put in place in the lead-up to Election Day. We will assess when to lift them afterwards, but they are temporary." — Copy
As QAnon presence on LinkedIn grows, the network is taking steps to limit the spread but does not sanction members for displaying support on their profiles
as a threat to our institutions and societies. https://www.wsj.com/... via @apalmerdc @JakeSherman https://twitter.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : oh wow. o...k https://www.wsj.c...
Sources: Facebook is exploring steps like a “kill switch” to shut off political ads after the election, if Trump attempts to dispute the results using Facebook
a horrible idea. https://twitter.com/... Fred Guttenberg / @fred_guttenberg : The current occupant of the WH knows he can't win the election. Voters will elect @JoeBiden. The rest ...
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www....
Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November
so sorry — maybe even death” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Full story: Facebook is considering a ban on political ads in the days...
Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November
Facebook Inc. is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the U.S. election in November …