Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July
A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here. — A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract. It went all Nazi, because well, birds...
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA
www.wired.com/story/big-ba... X: Sovey / @sovey_x : Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is 19. He just got hired to fix the retirement system. I'm 28 and don't know how to unsubscribe fro...
DOGE's Tom Krause, the US Treasury's new Fiscal Assistant Secretary, is still the CEO of Cloud Software Group; critics say it may be a conflict of interest
“...bosses are simultaneously running private companies while also running parts of the government that affect their businesses.” — By @telliotter.bsky.social Tim Marchman / @tim...
Sources: the US Office of Personnel Management's highest ranks are now controlled by former employees of Elon Musk's companies, like xAI and the Boring Company
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir.
Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users tune or even turn off their Feed
Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds.
Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more
but no one is looking at it. https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED Tori Elliott / @telliotter : There's a lot of talk about China's disinfo/propaganda efforts, but turns out... they're ...
Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more
Vittoria Elliott / Wired : X: @telliotter X: Tori Elliott / @telliotter : Meta's platforms are still critical for many people, and could likely have a major impact on global democ...
After Big Tech cut thousands of trust and safety staff, Sero AI and other outsourcing startups sell the services, which experts warn bring problems of their own
The burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems of their own. X: @daphnehk , @gabenich...
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”
language that would easily fall into the category of “social, political, or elections” issues, a special category of ad that @Meta tracks @mmfa : Meta is allowing PragerU Kids — wh...
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”
language that would easily fall into the category of “social, political, or elections” issues, a special category of ad that @Meta tracks @mmfa : Meta is allowing PragerU Kids — wh...
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”
A nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads …
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”
A nonprofit watchdog group has found that the right-wing group PragerU has pushed out more than 100 political ads …
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook's and Instagram's algorithms …
Sources: some former US Twitter employees finally received their severance agreements, offering only one month of base pay as severance and no prorated bonuses
and they fall short of expectations. https://fortune.com/... https://twitter.com/... Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : This is mad. The 50% of staff who were laid off from Twitter on...
Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised
Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.
The son of a murdered Ethiopian professor files a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya, alleging Meta's algorithms promote hateful and violent content for engagement
Lawsuit alleges the social media giant is fueling violence and hate across Eastern and Southern Africa.
The son of a murdered Ethiopian professor files a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya, alleging Meta's algorithms promote hateful and violent content for engagement
Lawsuit alleges the social media giant is fueling violence and hate across Eastern and Southern Africa.
WhatsApp's outage was more than a mere inconvenience for users in India, Brazil, Lebanon, and elsewhere, due to its popularity and centrality to their lives
in many places where FB's products are the internet, life ground to a halt. @restofworld https://restofworld.org/...
Telegram says it added 70M users on Monday amid the outage of Facebook's products; Telegram recently reported passing 1B total downloads and 500M MAUs
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Source: Durov's Channel .