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Shannon Bond

@shannonpareil
48 posts
2023-04-22
a 🔥 @darakerr scoop: even before Twitter stopped labeling accounts as “state-affiliated media” or “government official”, it dropped its guardrails intended to stem the flow of govt propaganda from Russia, China & Iran https://www.npr.org/...
2023-04-22 View on X
NPR

Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media

Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …

2022-12-15
to be clear, this is the same strategy of link blocking Twitter applied to the NY Post Hunter Biden story in October 2020 that Elon & the Twitter Files disclosures have said was bad 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.

to be clear, this is the same strategy of link blocking Twitter applied to the NY Post Hunter Biden story in October 2020 that Elon & the Twitter Files disclosures have said was bad 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 …

2022-10-31
“We didn't know when we would close on Thursday night until 15 minutes before it happened,” said one Twitter adviser." https://www.ft.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
Washington Post

Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's workforce in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety

The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce  —  SAN FRANCISCO …

2022-10-23
such a thoughtful read on the knotty issues raised when AI text-to-image generators make art https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-23 View on X
CNN

Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid

Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @green_f...

2022-08-26
Maybe finally eventually people will have a way to get their Facebook accounts back without resorting to begging employees and journalists for help, or buying expensive VR headsets https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-08-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Following Oversight Board feedback, Meta is building a customer service division to help users of its apps who have had posts or accounts removed unexpectedly

2022-07-28
Zuckerberg in wartime CEO mode on today's earnings call. “This is a period that demands more intensity. I expect us to get more done with fewer resources.”
2022-07-28 View on X
CNBC

Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year”

ad market is shit —reels monetizes less than other ads on instagram and they are ramping up reels so they need to figure out how to make more money from reels eventually — apple st...

Zuckerberg in wartime CEO mode on today's earnings call. “This is a period that demands more intensity. I expect us to get more done with fewer resources.”
2022-07-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …

RIP Sheryl's small biz case studies
2022-07-28 View on X
CNBC

Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year”

ad market is shit —reels monetizes less than other ads on instagram and they are ramping up reels so they need to figure out how to make more money from reels eventually — apple st...

RIP Sheryl's small biz case studies
2022-07-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook …

2022-05-17
just a normal corporate deal where CEO subtweets a whole thread at the buyer https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk says the Twitter deal “cannot move forward” until Twitter proves bots are <5% of users, claiming his offer is based on “SEC filings being accurate”

Elon Musk said he'll proceed with his $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. only if the social media giant … Source: @elonmusk .

2022-03-28
Given that, it's funny this whole story came about bcs that Keenan Ramsey profile sent a LinkedIn message to @noUpside — one of the few people who CAN spot the telltale signs of an AI-generated image. “The face jumped out at me as being fake,” she says. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-28 View on X
NPR

Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion

Loading...  At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.

My story just scratches the surface of a new evolution in fake accounts. If you work at a company that's used AI-gen faces for sales (or anything else!), or a company that sells LinkedIn marketing services, I'd love to hear from you. DMs are open. https://www.npr.org/...
2022-03-28 View on X
NPR

Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion

Loading...  At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.

But...RingCentral doesn't have any record of an employee named Keenan Ramsey. NYU says no one named Keenan Ramsey has received any undergraduate degree. And the biggest red flag? Her face appears to have been created by artificial intelligence. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-28 View on X
NPR

Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion

Loading...  At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.

Welcome to the latest LinkedIn marketing tactic: using AI-generated faces to drum up sales. A tool used to spread disinformation has come to the corporate world. Stanford's @noUpside & @JoshAGoldstein found >1,000 profiles with seemingly fake faces: https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-28 View on X
NPR

Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion

Loading...  At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.

Meet Keenan Ramsey. Her LinkedIn profile says she sells software for RingCentral & has a business degree from NYU. She likes CNN, Amazon, & Melinda French Gates. Her pitches come punctuated with emojis. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-28 View on X
NPR

Researchers identify over a thousand fake LinkedIn accounts with computer-generated profile pictures being used for lead generation and product promotion

Loading...  At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.

2022-03-12
Facebook now says its temporarily exception allowing for violent speech directed at Russian soldiers will only be applied in Ukraine - not other countries, as the emails reported by Reuters yesterday said https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison

Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …

2022-03-02
“For the most part, the fact-checking notes rated “helpful” actually did seem potentially helpful — that is, if they were incorporated into Twitter in any meaningful way, which they aren't.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
Washington Post

Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022

With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent. Tweets: @willoremus , @kcoleman , @shannonp...

2022-02-03
Facebook parent Meta says its VR/AR business lost $10bn in 2021 — a preview of things to come as it spends even more in the years ahead building the metaverse. But the company overall still turned a $39bn net profit.
2022-02-03 View on X
CNBC

Meta beats with Q4 revenue of $33.67B vs. $33.4B est., up 20% YoY, 2.91B MAUs, up 4% YoY, but misses with EPS of $3.67 vs. $3.84 est.; stock down 20%+

- Facebook earnings came in below expectations for the fourth quarter, and the company said numerous challenges are ahead in the first quarter.

2022-01-27
Neil Young says leaving Spotify means cutting off 60% of his streaming income — and takes a shot at Spotify's audio quality https://m.neilyoungarchives.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines