Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
Survey of 1,200 US adults: 66% view Facebook favorably, down from 71% in 2020, compared to 79% for Apple (down 2%), 87% for Amazon (down 4%), and 90% for Google
After a year of the pandemic, we asked Americans if their trust in big tech companies has changed — and if the biggest ones should be broken up Tweets: @reckless , @nickconfessore , @nkulw , @tysonbro...
A look at the focus on disinformation by media, tech, and academic leaders, and how assumptions about disinfo effectiveness echo old media and advertising myths
In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours … Tweets: @karlbode , @karlbode , @daveyalba , @daphnehk , @noupside , @b...
A spokesperson for Donald Trump says his blog, used to share statements after he was banned on Facebook and Twitter, has been permanently shut down
it's free reach. It's never been clearer what stunts like the Florida deplatforming law are really about. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott : A Trum...
Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules
For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies” like Facebook, Twit...
An inside look at tech support scams perpetrated by scammers based in fraudulent Indian call centers, which were exposed by pseudonymous YouTuber Jim Browning
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee / New York Times : Tweets: @charlesarthur , @jimbrowning11 , @asiachloebrown , @nytmag , @nickconfessore , and @yudhijit Tweets: Charles Arthur / @charlesarthur : Ten years ago...
A look at “perception hacks”, small attacks that can undermine confidence if exaggerated, and other scenarios that election officials are keeping an eye on
perception hacks are designed to trick us into thinking there has been widespread manipulation when there hasn't. The threat actors will keep trying, but we don't have to take the bait! https://www.ny...
Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era
with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... @clar...
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote
and even within the company, staff worried that Nix & Co. were exaggerating CA's “impact and influence.” This jibes with reporting by @nytimes, @BuzzFeed, and others in 2017. Benedict Evans / @benedic...
Banning TikTok from US app stores but allowing it to operate until Nov. 12 prevents TikTok from patching any security vulnerabilities found in the meantime
a move which is shortsighted, ridiculous, and likely unconstitutional. https://www.nytimes.com/... SIX / @sixiaotang : Tiktok will be fine; the no-compromise loss of WeChat access in the US is devasta...