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Brandy Zadrozny

@brandyzadrozny
141 posts
2024-04-04
Wait so are all the people who pay for blue checks gonna be so mad because it seems like it might make these people mad
2024-04-04 View on X
The Verge

X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to users with at least 2,500 “verified subscriber followers”

Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers.

2024-01-25
Some good news for journalism in an otherwise tragic time
2024-01-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Web Summit CEO Katherine Maher, who was hastily appointed at the end of October 2023 to replace Paddy Cosgrave, plans to step down on March 1 to join NPR as CEO

2024-01-01
Love this.  What's the plan to curate and share these new old sites?  The next Delicious?
2024-01-01 View on X
Rolling Stone

In 2024, the internet will see the biggest reshuffling of power in 25 years, with a resurgent “human web” and regulators forcing tech giants to open up

The new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven't seen in a quarter-century … Everything is changing rapidly.

2023-12-31
Love this.  What's the plan to curate and share these new old sites?  The next Delicious?
2023-12-31 View on X
Rolling Stone

In 2024, the internet is about to see the biggest reshuffling of power in 25 years, with a resurgent “human web” and regulators forcing tech giants to open up

The new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven't seen in a quarter-century … Everything is changing rapidly.

2023-10-22
New: A handful of influential but unreliable “breaking news” accounts, many promoted by Elon Musk, are dominating the flow of news on Twitter around the Israel-Hamas war and easily outpacing established mainstream news outlets, according to new research. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2023-10-22 View on X
NBC News

Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10

The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …

Long story short: The recent accounts noting a change for the worse in the way news and information moves and is incentivized on Twitter aren't wrong. This is the news on Elon Musk's X now. As the lead author told me in a call: https://www.nbcnews.com/... [image]
2023-10-22 View on X
NBC News

Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10

The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …

2023-05-17
My kingdom (I have no kingdom) for an interviewer to push back and say “That's the single dumbest thing I've ever heard. It was confirmed by police. Seems like you are not only badly informed but disturbingly invested in disproving that a white supremacist murdered people. Why?” https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-17 View on X
CNBC

In an interview, Elon Musk discussed acquiring Twitter, defended his inflammatory tweets, called tech workers the “laptop class living in la-la-land”, and more

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down for a sprawling interview with CNBC anchor David Faber on Tuesday following .

2023-05-10
People are arguing with me about whether a murderer with SS bolts and swastika tattoos who kept a racist blog could actually be a white supremacist. I'm logging off.
2023-05-10 View on X
VICE

Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”

and only if you are not particularly insightful. https://twitter.com/... @dangoodin001 : In today's installment of why it's hypocritical for activists and journalist to stay on Twi...

2023-04-22
And I'm starless! But for real, this website let me connect with reporters and friends and sources and an audience and reliable information during breaking news. I'm grateful for it. I'm hopeful that someone will make the next thing that does that. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-22 View on X
The Verge

Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”

Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun.  Twitter has officially begun...

And I'm starless! But for real, this website let me connect with reporters and friends and sources and an audience and reliable information during breaking news. I'm grateful for it. I'm hopeful that someone will make the next thing that does that. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-22 View on X
Mashable

In a campaign called #BlockTheBlue, some Twitter users, including popular ones like @dril, are asking people to block anyone who subscribes to Twitter Blue

After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.

2023-04-21
And I'm starless! But for real, this website let me connect with reporters and friends and sources and an audience and reliable information during breaking news. I'm grateful for it. I'm hopeful that someone will make the next thing that does that. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-21 View on X
The Verge

Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”

The change is apparent on Twitter accounts for several Verge writers and other journalists like LA Times reporter Matt Pearce …

2022-12-12
No the thesis does not argue that but none of Musk's followers are going to read it anyway. This is the world's richest man trying to pizzagate his former employee. For what? It's so so dangerous. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk tweets an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation and baselessly suggests the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization

Elon Musk's “Twitter Files,” which supposedly reveal … Joseph Menn / Washington Post : Elon Musk uses QAnon tactic in criticizing former Twitter safety chief Livemint : Twitter cha...

2022-12-11
No the thesis does not argue that but none of Musk's followers are going to read it anyway. This is the world's richest man trying to pizzagate his former employee. For what? It's so so dangerous. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-11 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk tweeted an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation, baselessly suggesting that the ex-Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization

Elon Musk posted tweets including an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation Saturday that suggested the former Twitter executive …

2022-12-05
New: A week ago, Elon Musk announced a great unbanning—Twitter would reverse thousands of suspensions, including Donald Trump. But also, scraped data shows, he freed an emboldened group of trolls, white nationalists, QAnoners, and extreme right-wingers. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2022-12-05 View on X
HuffPost

Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013

2022-12-04
New: A week ago, Elon Musk announced a great unbanning—Twitter would reverse thousands of suspensions, including Donald Trump. But also, scraped data shows, he freed an emboldened group of trolls, white nationalists, QAnoners, and extreme right-wingers. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2022-12-04 View on X
HuffPost

Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013

Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants.  —  Andrew Anglin ― …

2022-11-19
oh boy so many questions. Hate speech allowed now, just demonetized? What is negative speech? Are we restricting sharing abilities bc the bad stuff does spreads organically and often through coordination? What does moderation and enforcement look like when you fire everyone but e https://twitter.com/...
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...

2022-11-06
How to accept blame while taking absolutely no position. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-06 View on X
CNBC

Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly”, amid mass layoffs; Twitter's headcount grew from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021

- Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …

How to accept blame while taking absolutely no position. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-06 View on X
Platformer

Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff

Hi 👋 - Third quarter earnings show that big tech … Rise & Shine ☀ : Twitter Layoffs: The lawsuit and Fears of misinformation Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media : Musk & Mayhem @Twitt...

2022-11-05
Teams dedicated to making Twitter better for individual users and the world at large have been completely decimated. Some of these folks were doing such smart, creative work to better the experience, provide context, curation, transparency, safety, equality, etc. A bummer. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-05 View on X
Platformer

Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs

I. The Snap  —  The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday.  —  For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …

Teams dedicated to making Twitter better for individual users and the world at large have been completely decimated. Some of these folks were doing such smart, creative work to better the experience, provide context, curation, transparency, safety, equality, etc. A bummer. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-05 View on X
Washington Post

Twitter lays off about half its staff, sending a “Your Role at Twitter” email to their company account for those staying and personal account for those leaving

which was maybe ~80-100 people — is down to just two people after layoffs today.... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Here's the first official communication from Twitter's new leadershi...