2023-10-22
Ugh, this site's deterioration may be worse than we thought. “It's fast, it's unvetted, and it's very often unsourced. And there's every indication that the shift is not accidental and that it's part of a vision of what news is going to be on X.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
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 …
2023-01-23
I feel like I could write a book about the 2001 dot-com bust. It was huge, esp for me as a business owner. I preach its lessons to younger tech #PR ppl. But some things you have to experience for yourself... https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
The recent tech layoffs highlight a generational divide between younger workers, experiencing their first downturn, and older workers, who have been here before
The industry's recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash. Tweets: @neilmunrodc , @jamesfallows , @aaron_renn , ...
2021-10-14
Facebook is cracking down on leaks and becoming more insular in the wake of bad #PR about toxic speech and misinfo, which is exactly what a company in its position should NOT be doing. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Facebook sets some internal message boards to private, including discussions on platform safety and election integrity, limiting which employees have access
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2020-09-01
This is depressing if you work in #PR, but also is you don't. Because there's a lot of truth to it. https://themargins.substack.com/ ...
Margins
Facebook acts more like a PR firm than a tech company, being good at deflecting bad press while avoiding any real accountability
What happens when PR eats the world? — 1 hr … A couple weeks ago, I talked about the dual reality I seemed to be living in.