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Anna Merlan

@annamerlan
13 posts
2025-11-25
I talked to Joan Donovan about Twitter's very old foreign influence problem, which was unmasked in the funniest possible way over the weekend: www.motherjones.com/politics/ 202...
2025-11-25 View on X
Techdirt

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints

from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept  —  For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …

2025-02-23
Ah okay upon two seconds of inspection and some feedback from people smarter than me: it's because this story is a bit breathless and the claims in the press release have not been backed up with evidence as yet www.nature.com/articles/d41...  [embedded post]
2025-02-23 View on X
Scientific American

Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft's claims of achieving a quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence

contrary to what you may have read in some other places  —  www.nature.com/articles/d41... Elizabeth Gibney / @lizziegibney : By far the most informative and nuanced take you will ...

2025-02-22
Ah okay upon two seconds of inspection and some feedback from people smarter than me: it's because this story is a bit breathless and the claims in the press release have not been backed up with evidence as yet www.nature.com/articles/d41...  [embedded post]
2025-02-22 View on X
Scientific American

Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft's claims of achieving a quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence

With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales faster than competing technologies

2025-02-12
I wrote about how federal offices are transforming physically under DOGE: harder to get into, less functional, and at USAID, secure intelligence cables literally impossible to access in a closed-off building.  It is, in the words of one source, “incredibly stupid.” www.motherjones.com/politics/ 202...
2025-02-12 View on X
Foreign Policy

DOGE accessing Treasury systems and classified data breaks a fundamental security principle and could help the US' adversaries steal data and install backdoors

The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.

2024-09-07
One day after the DOJ accused Tenet Media of receiving $10 million in covert funding, a “reporter” for the company announced that Tenet “has ended.” Tenet's founder Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan still haven't commented on any of this. Normal! https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
2024-09-07 View on X
Washington Post

YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content

The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the...

I wonder if media companies generally roll up like faulty umbrellas and blow away without a single word?
2024-09-07 View on X
Washington Post

YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content

The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the...

2022-02-12
I am desperate to understand if the alleged crypto launderer thinks her raps are good https://www.vice.com/...
2022-02-12 View on X
VICE

A profile of the couple charged with laundering ~$5B in stolen bitcoin, compiled from sources, filings, databases, documents, and an extensive online record

Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein wanted to be famous.  Now, after being accused of laundering billions of dollars of crypto, they are.

2021-12-09
Here's how you know your CEO is getting up to some wild shit in Slack: “He added that those ‘adversely affected directly by the colonization of the Americas’ should have “taken the day off if they wanted to.” https://www.vice.com/...
2021-12-09 View on X
TechCrunch

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg apologizes for how he handled firing ~900 employees, 9% of his workforce, over Zoom, as a report says Better.com is delaying its SPAC

Three Executives Quit Joshua Bote / SFGATE : Startup valued at $7B lays off hundreds on Zoom before holidays Niket Nishant / The Economic Times : Better.com CEO apologises after la...

2021-09-05
The youths, man https://www.vice.com/...
2021-09-05 View on X
New York Times

GoDaddy says it gave Texas Right to Life, an abortion “whistleblower” website, 24 hours to find a new hosting provider before cutting off service

2021-09-04
The youths, man https://www.vice.com/...
2021-09-04 View on X
New York Times

GoDaddy says it gave Texas Right to Life, an abortion “whistleblower” website, 24 hours to find a new hosting provider before cutting off service

To protest Texas' new abortion law, activists said, they pranked a website set up by the state's largest anti-abortion group.

2020-03-01
We used a California law to get Clearview AI to give me the file they have on me; it contains a collection of photos of my face culled from some extremely odd sources https://www.vice.com/...
2020-03-01 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers

BuzzFeed News :

2020-02-29
We used a California law to get Clearview AI to give me the file they have on me; it contains a collection of photos of my face culled from some extremely odd sources https://www.vice.com/...
2020-02-29 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers

Apple has disabled the iOS application of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database …

2019-09-06
that'll do it, Negroponte murmured, hitting “send,” that'll get me out of this one https://twitter.com/...
2019-09-06 View on X
MIT Technology Review

MIT Media Lab founder and former director Nicholas Negroponte defends Joi Ito's decision to accept Epstein's money post Epstein's 2008 conviction

At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker.