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Ryan McCarthy

@mccarthyryanj
25 posts
2024-10-30
Important story from @misstessowen. Staggering that we're going through this again after 2020 and all the warnings that were ignored. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-10-30 View on X
Wired

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...

2024-01-01
I'm working on a series for @fastcompany about actual, real world use cases for AI.  (I'm looking at everything from corporate IT to cutting edge research) My first piece is about why the first place we many of us will experience AI may be in meetings.  Figma has made a big bet on AI, and it's not just trying to make you more efficient.
2024-01-01 View on X
Fast Company

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. …

2023-12-31
I'm working on a series for @fastcompany about actual, real world use cases for AI.  (I'm looking at everything from corporate IT to cutting edge research) My first piece is about why the first place we many of us will experience AI may be in meetings. …
2023-12-31 View on X
Fast Company

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. …

2023-05-24
BuzzFeed plans to sell subscriptions to an AI chatbot that will recommend... BuzzFeed recipes to you. So much of AI right now is just straight hashtag-content uroboros https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
2023-05-24 View on X
New York Times

BuzzFeed debuts Botatouille, a free chatbot that suggests recipes from its food brand Tasty, and plans to offer AI-personalized services to sell subscriptions

2022-10-27
Seems unlikely that the DOJ would start a criminal probe against Tesla without some info about internal docs or emails that could suggest the company mislead customers https://www.reuters.com/...
2022-10-27 View on X
Reuters

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 …

2022-10-13
“Read the timeline for long enough and you'll start to realize that most of this is just cribbing other people's jokes.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2022-10-13 View on X
@bitech

[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...

2022-10-07
Media has long been way, way too sympathetic to the claims of the driverless car industry. (I'd argue a similar thing is happening now with coverage of AI) But this whole piece by @chafkin really good. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-10-07 View on X
Bloomberg

After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicles, startups see little progress, falling back on simulations and remote operators as losses mount

2022-04-01
“Instead of suppressing dubious posts reviewed by the company's network of outside fact-checkers, the News Feed was instead giving the posts distribution, spiking views by as much as 30% globally.” https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-04-01 View on X
The Verge

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 …

2022-02-15
Quite a feat for the Web3 zealots who attacked BuzzFeed's reporting to misunderstand - or ignore - this many basic facts at once. https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-15 View on X
VICE

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.

2021-08-13
A fair-minded look at the benefits and limits of Substack's foray into international journalism https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-13 View on X
Rest of World

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

2021-04-12
The first piece to suggest that Substack's software is already a quickly becoming a commodity. Very curious what else they end up offering to justify taking a 10% cut of writer revenue. Still strikes me as an odd pricing structure for software https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-04-12 View on X
New York Times

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.

2021-01-15
$10,000 a year for writing and editing tips from Axios editors, plus software. One client, AT&T is actually a media company, which in addition to owning CNN, employs many, many editors. https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-01-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year

2020-12-16
Or, I don't know, maybe hire more moderators? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
2020-12-16 View on X
BuzzFeed News

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.

2020-12-11
The recurring theme of Facebook scandals doesn't come down to writing code. It comes down to not giving a shit
2020-12-11 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Facebook insiders say it is prioritizing revenue over user safety by its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers, and disinfo peddlers from buying ads

BuzzFeed News :

2020-10-31
This has long been something that civil rights activists have called for. Very odd that FB chose to do this quietly. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-31 View on X
BuzzFeed News

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

2020-10-03
QAnon has come to LinkedIn. https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-10-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

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...

2020-08-22
Ah, yes, Facebook is broadly worried about something, but has no specific plans or commitment to do anything. Got it https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-08-22 View on X
New York Times

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 ...

2020-07-24
Facebook told an employee this blatantly racist / white nationalist ad didn't break its rules. It only took the post down after @BuzzFeedNews reported it Great reporting in here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-24 View on X
BuzzFeed News

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....

2020-07-12
Non-partisan organizations, voting groups and even many states themselves are spending many millions of dollars in Facebook ads to get out the vote this year. Facebook banning ads this late in the game could really backfire: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-07-12 View on X
Bloomberg

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...

2020-07-11
Non-partisan organizations, voting groups and even many states themselves are spending many millions of dollars in Facebook ads to get out the vote this year. Facebook banning ads this late in the game could really backfire: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-07-11 View on X
Bloomberg

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 …