2024-01-02
Musk apologists keep trying to make it sound like it was all him succeeding in his prior companies. He got shtcanned at Paypal, then had financial help with SpaceX (but apparently treats people like crap, company still did fine in SPITE of him), Tesla has NUMEROUS lawsuits for discrimination and the failures of the cars themselves (tho it again succeeded not BECAUSE of him, but in spite of him. …
Axios
Filing: Fidelity marks down the value of its X stake, estimating the company is worth ~28% of the $44B that Elon Musk paid, down from 33% in May 2023
yourself’ outburst Kwan Wei Kevin Tan / Business Insider : X is worth 71% less now after Elon Musk took over and burned its bridges with advertisers: Fidelity Anders Hagstrom / Fox...
2022-09-16
YES!!!! I hope you're listening to President Biden's speech!!! He just called out for more control and removing Social media immunity over hate speech!
Washington Post
At a WH summit, tech companies, including YouTube, Twitch, Microsoft, and Meta, announce new policies and tools to combat the spread of extremism on their sites
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post :
2022-02-24
Fair enough. Then it means that support staff doesn't really understand the implications of the accounts they're banning...may require some peer review before banning them. Because there's instances WHITE SUPREMACISTS and harassers stay on this platform and useful accounts don't https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
Several Ukrainian government sites have been disrupted by DDoS attacks; researchers discover new data wiper malware installed on hundreds of Ukrainian machines
Cloudflare said the attack was “relatively modest compared to large DDoS attacks we've handled in the past.”
Fair enough. Then it means that support staff doesn't really understand the implications of the accounts they're banning...may require some peer review before banning them. Because there's instances WHITE SUPREMACISTS and harassers stay on this platform and useful accounts don't https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
Twitter says it mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts posting about Russian military movements near the Ukrainian border, and reinstates some accounts
including how to delete your account Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Twitter shares tips for users in conflict zones amid Ukraine crisis Jose Montes de Oca / Newslit Daily : T...
2021-03-09
@issielapowsky @CindyOtis_ Very telling, it shows they're absolutely capable technically to be able to address the violent extremism narratives and yet with the domestic variety they chose not to. And yes it's a choice. Tech means were always there.
Protocol
How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other tech giants let their work on domestic terrorism threats, like QAnon, lag behind foreign threats, like ISIS
On a Friday in August 2017 — years before a mob of armed and very-online extremists took over the U.S. Capitol — a young Black woman … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wexler , @issielapo...