Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”
This is how it sounds when outlets like NPR insist on staying on Twitter. — #Twitter Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net : I understand this new policy is the result of Elo...
Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark
Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.
The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will
BuzzFeed isn't ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense. — Pranav Dixit
OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist
Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …
OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist
Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …
In a first, the FBI acknowledges buying US location data, which Director Christopher Wray says was for a national security pilot project that's no longer active
Rather than obtaining a warrant, the bureau purchased sensitive data—a controversial practice that privacy advocates say is deeply problematic.
An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender
Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender
Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
The US House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft CEOs for documents and communications on content moderation by March 23
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal :
NetBlocks: Turkey restores Twitter access, limited after the earthquake, after officials “remind Twitter of its obligations” on takedowns and disinformation
Brian Fung / CNN :
According to six employees and an internal doc, TikTok and ByteDance staff engage in “heating”, or inflating video view counts, to court influencers and brands
TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos …
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions
just so transparent https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Friendship ended with KATIE https://twitter.com/... Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas : audio of elon musk joining @kati...
Twitter begins reactivating some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now”, beating “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk briefly showed up to a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after reporters asked him questions
The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
The son of a murdered Ethiopian professor files a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya, alleging Meta's algorithms promote hateful and violent content for engagement
Lawsuit alleges the social media giant is fueling violence and hate across Eastern and Southern Africa.
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story
The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story
The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings
let's break down what our policies are, and some of the big questions we still need to answer... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning th...