Q&A with Nick Denton, Jonah Peretti, and also Ben Smith, whose book Traffic details the rise and fall of BuzzFeed and Gawker, on digital media and its reckoning
A conversation with two media pioneers — plus Ben Smith, whose new book chronicles their rise and fall.
GPTZero, a Princeton student's app that uses perplexity and burstiness metrics to help detect whether a human or ChatGPT wrote an academic essay, goes viral
“Humans deserve to know when the writing isn't human.” — Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech … Edward Tian was fast asleep when his bot broke a website.
A worker who served as a fallback for a real estate AI chatbot for $25/hour details the experience of pretending to be a bot as part of a sixty-strong team
a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human! https://www.nplusonemag.com/ ... @frankpasquale : “I wasn't really training Brenda to think like a human. Brenda was trai...
Memo to staff: Meta is reallocating resources from Facebook's News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy
to pay Rupert's and the Germans' blackmail, actually—without paying for links. Danny Denhard / @dannydenhard : Most people forget Facebook is ahead of the curve when it comes to wh...
After leaving Meta, Brandon Silverman, co-founder of Facebook-acquired CrowdTangle, has helped craft a bipartisan bill to boost social networks' transparency
The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings. Tweets: @benyt , @lauraedelson2 , @apmckay , @elip...
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …
Critics say the policies of Amazon, Google, and Facebook from the early days of the pandemic to restrict the sale of medical-grade masks are now outdated
Scientists are urging Americans to upgrade their face coverings. But Amazon, Google and Facebook restrict the sale of medical-grade masks.
Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist says large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders, with Facebook slow to act
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
Jeff Bezos says he is launching the Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change and committing $10B “to start”, with first grants slated to be issued this summer
otherwise, they're not serious about actually making a difference. https://twitter.com/... Lydia DePillis / @lydiadepillis : Huh. I mean, that's real money. He's also saying “grant...