2025-06-18
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says that the company expects artificial intelligence “will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains” over time. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company expects that “in the next few years” AI use “will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the retail and tech giant “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.”
2024-03-15
Elon Musk and conservative influencers have spread unverified claims to millions, smearing Haitian migrants as cannibals as they endure deep uncertainty about the future of their country and family members still there. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Bloomberg
X removes a graphic video shared by Elon Musk purporting to show cannibalism in Haiti, for violating its rules; there's no evidence the video was shot in Haiti
2024-02-01
Sen. Tom Cotton: “Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?” TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: “Senator, I'm Singaporean. No.” Cotton: “Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?” Chew: “No, senator. Again, I'm Singaporean.” [video]
Wired
Q&A with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on the company's music festival in Arizona, his background, TikTok and music, US scrutiny, music labels, moderation, and more
A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he's trying to make TikTok better.
Sen. Tom Cotton: “Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?” TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: “Senator, I'm Singaporean. No.” Cotton: “Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?” Chew: “No, senator. Again, I'm Singaporean.” [video]
Bloomberg
UMG begins pulling its artists' music from TikTok after negotiations failed; videos featuring UMG-owned songs will be muted, and users can pick a new soundtrack
- Publisher behind Drake and Taylor Swift pushes for better pay — Videos featuring Universal Music-owned songs will be muted
2024-01-29
“Something went wrong. Try reloading.” Taylor Swift's name cannot be searched on X days after nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes go viral on the platform. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Wall Street Journal
X blocks Taylor Swift searches as a “temporary action and done with an abundance of caution”, days after explicit AI-generated images of her flooded the site
2024-01-28
“Something went wrong. Try reloading.” Taylor Swift's name cannot be searched on X days after nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes go viral on the platform. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Wall Street Journal
X blocks Taylor Swift searches as a “temporary action and done with an abundance of caution”, days after explicit AI-generated images of her flooded the site
Singer's name yielded error messages Saturday, days after her fans swarmed the social-media platform vowing to ‘protect Taylor Swift’
2023-06-27
NBC News tested out the swipe up feature and found disturbing videos that depict animal abuse, policy brutality and more, including a clip that shows what appears to be a police officer shooting an individual. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
After Elon Musk highlighted Twitter's TikTok-like “swipe up for more videos” feature, some users said they were shown gun violence, police brutality, and more
Khadijah Khogeer / NBC News :
2023-01-30
San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped and idled in the middle of the street for no obvious reason. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
2023-01-29
San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped and idled in the middle of the street for no obvious reason. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
2022-01-10
Tech industry employees, founders and investors who used to shrug off local politics have taken a sudden and fierce interest in San Francisco government. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
Frustration with Covid-19 policies and crime have recently led many tech workers in San Francisco to engage in local politics for the first time
David Ingram / NBC News : Tweets: @recallsfboe , @commonsense415_ , @nbcnews , @sbuss , and @zachcoelius Tweets: @recallsfboe : “This is not a conventional political campaign,” he...
2021-12-05
A company sold “miracle” dirt this past summer for $110 per bag. Consumers cooked with it, put it in their drinks, and bathed in it — until scrutiny closed in last week. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
How online activists helped close BOO, an MLM scheme that sold $110 bags of dirt as alternative medicine on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok during the pandemic
until scrutiny closed in last week. https://www.nbcnews.com/... Laurie Garrett / @laurie_garrett : Eating #ivermectin horse worms paste was bad enough, but now #antivaxxers are — a...
2021-08-06
As New York becomes the first major US city to mandate proof of vaccination against Covid-19 for activities like going to restaurants and theaters, technology experts are raising concerns that vaccine passport apps have accuracy and privacy problems. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
A look at the state of vaccine passport apps, which have raised concerns over privacy and verification accuracy, as cities like NYC mandate proof of vaccination
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News : Tweets: @nbcnews Tweets: @nbcnews : As New York becomes the first major US city to mandate proof of vaccination against Covid-19 for activities like goi...
2021-06-18
NEW: Police in Ukraine arrest hackers behind major ransomware gang that has hacked a number of American targets, including the University of Miami, Florida, Stanford University, University of Maryland, and University of Colorado. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Financial Times
Ukrainian police arrest members of ransomware gang Clop, the first time that a national law enforcement agency has carried out mass arrests of such a gang
Arrests of Cl0p hacker group members adds to pressure on other countries to follow suit — Ukrainian police have arrested members …
2021-04-06
A news void in Pennsylvania — after the decline of the local newspaper — has led to the creation of “The News Alerts of Beaver County” Facebook group, a place where the community can self-report news. That's worked out, sometimes. https://www.nbcnews.com/... #NBCNewsThreads (1/7)
NBC News
A look at The News Alerts of Beaver County, a 43,000-member Facebook Group in PA that fills the local news void but often hosts exaggerations and falsehoods
The kind of misinformation that's traded in The News Alerts of Beaver County and thousands of other groups just like it poses a unique danger. It's subtler and in some ways more insidious — and it is capable of tearing a community apart. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
A look at The News Alerts of Beaver County, a 43,000-member Facebook Group in PA that fills the local news void but often hosts exaggerations and falsehoods
2021-01-26
Twitter unveils “Birdwatch” feature meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar to Wikipedia to flag potentially misleading tweets. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
NBC News
Twitter debuts Birdwatch, in testing since last year, which lets select users flag and add notes about tweets they think are misleading or false
Twitter unveiled a feature Monday meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar …
2021-01-09
JUST IN: Former first lady Michelle Obama calls on tech companies to permanently ban President Trump from their platforms and put policies in place “to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection.” https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Michelle Obama calls on Silicon Valley to permanently ban Trump from their platforms and prevent leaders from using platforms to “fuel insurrection”
JUST IN: Former first lady Michelle Obama calls on tech companies to permanently ban President Trump from their platforms and put policies in place “to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection.” https://twitter.com/...
Axios
Reddit bans one of its largest Trump supporting subreddits, r/donaldtrump, due to repeated policy violations with regard to the violence at the Capitol
Sara Fischer / Axios :
2021-01-08
JUST IN: Former first lady Michelle Obama calls on tech companies to permanently ban President Trump from their platforms and put policies in place “to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection.” https://twitter.com/...
Facebook
Zuckerberg says Facebook is extending the block it has placed on Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks”
The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining …
2021-01-07
BREAKING: Facebook has removed the president's video from its platform, @jolingkent reports. Pres. Trump began the video by reiterating the lie that the election “was stolen.” https://twitter.com/...
@twittersafety
[Thread] Twitter says Trump's account will be locked for 12 hours following removal of recent tweets, and further violations will result in permanent suspension
As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for...