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Advertisers might find this of concern. If they're still here at all. Twitter lost its head of brand safety and ad quality, people familiar with the matter said—the 2nd departure of a safety executive this week as the company tries to win back advertisers https://www.wsj.com/...

2023-06-03 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week

A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost a second senior executive …

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“He says the robots are going to kill us?” said @rcalo , a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, who has attended A.I. events alongside Mr. Musk. “A car that his company made has already killed somebody.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

2023-04-29 View on X

New York Times

Sources: Elon Musk shut off OpenAI's access to Twitter's data in December 2022, believing that the $2M/year licensing fee that OpenAI was paying wasn't enough

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Here is why REGULATION, not corporate benevolence, must be required of social media corporations. https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...

2023-02-24 View on X

Rolling Stone

Twitter under Elon Musk has yet to publish transparency reports detailing government content removal demands; the company published its last report in July 2022

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@elonmusk You're such a dummy. This was already in place and will not resolve your obligation to remove various types of material that you are required, by law, to do. Through a process called “content moderation.” The good news, I guess, is that this company's tech will fail before that.

2022-11-19 View on X

@elonmusk

[Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee

This week has been a week. Okay, let's just get into it. — Twitter needs to die Derek Saul / Forbes : ‘Freedom Of Speech, But Not Freedom Of Reach’: Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffi...

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Something is definitely basic here. It's this analysis. https://twitter.com/...

2022-11-01 View on X

Insider

SEC filing: Jack Dorsey rolled over his remaining 2.4% stake in Twitter, worth $1B+, into X Holdings, which Elon Musk didn't have to pay to acquire the company

- Dorsey left his second stint as CEO of Twitter last year. — A co-founder of the platform and friend of Musk, he's been supportive of the $44 billion takeover.

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Something is definitely basic here. It's this analysis. https://twitter.com/...

2022-11-01 View on X

Financial Times

Sources detail the twists and turns in Elon Musk's $44B Twitter takeover, starting in late March 2022, falling apart in July, and closing late on October 27

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Wholly irrelevant attempt at intimidation and theater. The questions before the court have nothing to do with this. Musk seeks to question Twitter employees who count bots -source | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/...

2022-08-11 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Elon Musk's lawyers asked the judge in the Twitter case to compel the company to hand over the names of employees who count spam and bot accounts

Elon Musk is accusing Twitter Inc. of hiding key witnesses in their legal battle over whether he must consummate a $44 billion buyout of the company …

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Again: no matter what happens, Musk's disastrous acquisition attempt and the Board's capitulation have destroyed Twitter, the company. Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team - TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/...

2022-07-08 View on X

Washington Post

Sources: Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is in serious jeopardy as his team concluded that spam account figures aren't verifiable using Twitter's data firehose

Talks with investors have cooled in recent weeks and Musk's camp believes it can't confirm Twitter's claims about spam accounts

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“'This show is dumb,' I'll sometimes say. She almost always ignores me. Her stony silence then prompts me to try to think of a show that's not dumb, which is an impossible task — because what kids' programming isn't dumb?” Um. Ever heard of Sesame Street? https://www.nytimes.com/...

2022-01-10 View on X

New York Times

How Ryan's World, launched in 2015 with a then three-year-old Ryan Kaji, grew into a content behemoth with 10 YouTube channels and deals with Amazon and others

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“'This show is dumb,' I'll sometimes say. She almost always ignores me. Her stony silence then prompts me to try to think of a show that's not dumb, which is an impossible task — because what kids' programming isn't dumb?” Um. Ever heard of Sesame Street? https://www.nytimes.com/...

2022-01-09 View on X

New York Times

How Ryan's World, launched in 2015 with a then three-year-old Ryan Kaji, grew into a content behemoth with 10 YouTube channels and deals with Amazon and others

Ten-year-old Ryan Kaji and his family have turned videos of him playing with toys into a multimillion-dollar empire. Tweets: @mathewi , @ubiquity75 , @nytimes , @gdalmiathinks , @t...

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Frankly, there is a problem with the fetishizing of data access among researchers who, in many cases, don't actually require said access to carry out their research or answer their questions. The great desire to have access to something almost taboo transforms into a “have to.”

2021-12-08 View on X

Bloomberg

Meta restructures its research department, bringing ~50 employees from teams like WhatsApp and Instagram into a group led by research head Pratiti Raychoudhury

Bloomberg : Tweets: @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , and @mer__edith Tweets: Dr. Sarah T. Roberts / @ubiquity75 : Probably an unpopular opinion among my pee...

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Probably an unpopular opinion among my peers, but “greater access to Facebook data” does not seem to me like the most pressing issue for researchers to take on. I'm not saying it's not an issue. But the top one? When excessive data-gathering by firms is a major problem?

2021-12-08 View on X

Bloomberg

Meta restructures its research department, bringing ~50 employees from teams like WhatsApp and Instagram into a group led by research head Pratiti Raychoudhury

Bloomberg : Tweets: @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , and @mer__edith Tweets: Dr. Sarah T. Roberts / @ubiquity75 : Probably an unpopular opinion among my pee...

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Another way to tackle this would be to, say, create, I dunno, a legal carve-out for researchers doing work intended for public benefit that would not see them banned for doing data collection and analysis of their own.

2021-12-08 View on X

Bloomberg

Meta restructures its research department, bringing ~50 employees from teams like WhatsApp and Instagram into a group led by research head Pratiti Raychoudhury

Bloomberg : Tweets: @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , and @mer__edith Tweets: Dr. Sarah T. Roberts / @ubiquity75 : Probably an unpopular opinion among my pee...

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For one, it may not always be case that data directly supplied by the firm be the best, or even accurate, as we recently saw. https://www.theverge.com/...

2021-12-08 View on X

Bloomberg

Meta restructures its research department, bringing ~50 employees from teams like WhatsApp and Instagram into a group led by research head Pratiti Raychoudhury

Bloomberg : Tweets: @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , @ubiquity75 , and @mer__edith Tweets: Dr. Sarah T. Roberts / @ubiquity75 : Probably an unpopular opinion among my pee...

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Juxtapose Facebook's ‘error’ in data it supplied to researchers as it sees fit against the fact that it has shut down/destroyed the research program at NYU Ad Observatory, which gathered data w user consent w/o Facebook as broker. ⁦@LauraEdelson2⁩ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

2021-09-12 View on X

New York Times

Internal emails: the data Facebook provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed

More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted …

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@clancynewyork @JuliaAngwin @alexstamos As one media exec put it to me quite succinctly some years ago, “if you open a hole on the internet, it gets filled with shit.” Every single company that provides a storage and/or tranmission of data has problem with the worst of the worst. All of them.

2021-08-16 View on X

Hello World

Q&A with Alex Stamos on Apple's proposed child safety features, his reservations about the company's announcement and approach to child safety online, and more

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This is a way anticompetition works under the tech monopoly. First force the app maker into your captive market. Second, steal the app. Thanks for the R&D, guys! https://twitter.com/...

2021-06-07 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Apple to announce better multitasking and widget placement for iPadOS, status-based notification alerts, an improved Messages app, and more at WWDC

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :

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This is a way anticompetition works under the tech monopoly. First force the app maker into your captive market. Second, steal the app. Thanks for the R&D, guys! https://twitter.com/...

2021-06-07 View on X

The Verge

What to expect from WWDC 2021: iOS 15 with updated notifications and iMessage, revamp of iPadOS home screen, new Apple Silicon chips and MacBook Pro, and more

The keynote kicks off June 7th at 1PM ET — Apple's annual developer extravaganza, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …

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@mikesbarnes @RMac18 Indeed, that's why I wrote my book, Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, from the perspective of the workers themselves and in the context of a system of labor practices. Content moderation is policy, operationalized. Period.

2021-04-15 View on X

@rmac18

[Thread] A Facebook moderator at Accenture who just quit decries inadequate mental health support and says the current system is bad for Facebook itself

A Facebook content moderator contracted through Accenture in Austin quit this morning with a blistering internal note. I've typed it out in full so people can read it for themselve...

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@mikesbarnes @RMac18 And it destroys people's lives.

2021-04-15 View on X

@rmac18

[Thread] A Facebook moderator at Accenture who just quit decries inadequate mental health support and says the current system is bad for Facebook itself

A Facebook content moderator contracted through Accenture in Austin quit this morning with a blistering internal note. I've typed it out in full so people can read it for themselve...

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