FT Alphaville closes its Mastodon server and reflects on why running a social media site is a bad idea, including reputational, legal, and security risks
Extinction looms for FTAV's Mastodon presence — A few months ago, FT Alphaville thought it might be fun to host a Mastodon server. Tweets: @mshannahmurphy , @senatorshoshana , @scottlincicome , @shi...
Interviews with 30 people detail the rise and fall of Meta's Libra project, later renamed Diem, as lofty goals were undermined by Facebook's reputation
On June 24 2021, Jay Powell and Janet Yellen sat down for their weekly breakfast amid the austere surroundings of the US Treasury building on 1,500 Pennsylvania Avenue. Tweets: @mshannahmurphy , @alex...
Internal memo: Andrew Bosworth says Meta's virtual worlds need “almost Disney levels of safety” but moderation at “meaningful scale is practically impossible”
from keeping a platform safe to correctly enforcing your own app store acceptance policies—seems to be impossible. https://www.ft.com/... Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy : He also says third party VR ...
In internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says he wants the metaverse to have “almost Disney levels of safety” but that moderation at scale “is practically impossible”
Internal memo from Andrew Bosworth lays out the scale of the challenge Tweets: @mshannahmurphy , @matthewfederman , @peterwsinger , @somebadideas , @minimaxir , @alexweprin , @karlbode , @counternotio...
How online criminals are turning to unlicensed crypto exchanges and over-the-counter crypto brokers to cash out profits and how crypto forensic firms track them
Criminals are locked in battle with Forensics firms tracking how Treasure Men, privacy wallets and gift cards are used to turn virtual hauls into hard cash Tweets: @dimartinobooth , @paulkrugman , and...
Investigation shows how dubious Twitter accounts with cultish followings can cause sudden surges in trading for penny stocks after endorsing them
followed by lulls — often encouraged by social media accounts with cultish followings https://www.ft.com/... Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Big can of worms here. ‘Dubious Twitter accounts with cultish foll...
Researchers: Telegram, which had 11.9M downloads the week of the Capitol riot, began shutting down public white supremacist groups for the first time Wednesday
Financial Times : Tweets: @mshannahmurphy , @dfrlab , @chrismessina , @magsvisaggs , @mikebutcher , and @discopriest Tweets: Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy : NEW: Telegram - the messaging app that's...
An independent audit commissioned by Facebook harshly criticizes the company, arguing that some of its decisions were “significant setbacks for civil rights”
but Facebook will ignore because Facebook is Facebook and will always be Facebook for as long as Facebook is allowed to decide what Facebook shouldn't and shouldn't do on Facebook. https://www.nytimes...
Sources: Facebook's head of trust and safety policy admits to a “trust deficit” on a call with 200+ advertisers, as the company tries to stem an ad boycott
not the people checking the product every day. https://twitter.com/... Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan : A leading Facebook exec has admitted the company is suffering from a “trust deficit” as brands...
NewsGuard report: Twitter is failing to clamp down on COVID-19 misinformation “superspreaders”, including some verified accounts with over 100,000 followers
some of which are verified — promoting misinformation about questionable treatments or cures that appear to violate recent policies banning such content.” https://www.ft.com/... Hannah Murphy / @mshan...