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Ellen Pao

@ekp
131 posts
2025-01-22
The invisible hand pushing us down the slippery slope
2025-01-22 View on X
New York Times

Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rose from $15.49 to $17.99 and standard with ads jumped a dollar to $7.99

entertainment TV and films.  —  Now, customers are going to be subsidizing Netflix's push into live events like NFL and WWE, whether they want to or not. … @durrell : I swear to Go...

The invisible hand pushing us down the slippery slope
2025-01-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subscribers, adding 18.9M subscribers, more than double analysts' estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+

- Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market  — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates

2024-12-14
User experience and monetization being in conflict is what's wrong with tech today [embedded post]
2024-12-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Tinder warns of declining to flat direct revenue through 2026, below estimates, and says it plans to prioritize improving its user experience over monetization

now it's trying everything, including AI, to hold onto its paying users Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : tech company has crazy idea.  Analysts say “company is insane” and “the...

2023-03-18
It's groundhog day all over again: We really are going to keep making the same mistakes over and over despite actual harm and a whole insurrection https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-18 View on X
Axios

YouTube lifts its restrictions on Donald Trump's channel, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence”

YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.

2023-03-04
Tech companies artificially created two internal classes: employees and contractors. The NLRB just saw through Google's structure and ruled that Google is legally the employer for YouTube's contract staff https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-03-04 View on X
Bloomberg

An NLRB director rules that Google is a “joint employer” with YouTube subcontractor Cognizant and must bargain with Cognizant workers if they vote to unionize

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg :

2023-02-02
Thoughtful piece on the lasting harms and influence of Kiwi Farms with insights from @BriannaWu and @lizthegrey reported by one of the few reporters who actually understands the full impact of social media @alibreland https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
2023-02-02 View on X
Mother Jones

Kiwi Farms, a forum for online harassment campaigns, has managed to stay online after being dropped by Cloudflare, as posters congregate on Telegram and Discord

If you or someone you care about may be at risk of suicide, call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline … Tweets: @ekp , @motherjones , @motherjones , @taylorlorenz , @br...

2022-11-07
I guess permanent suspensions are allowed when you need to heal your fragile ego https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-07 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings

Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow …

2022-10-01
Not illuminating to many of us https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-01 View on X
Big Technology

A roundup of Elon Musk's newly released text messages show the inner workings of Silicon Valley dealmaking and how Musk lost interest in his Twitter acquisition

Newly released text messages shine a light on how tech's most powerful do business — and perhaps why Musk lost interest in Twitter.

2022-06-26
If you run a tech company but haven't examined your policies to make sure your data can't be used to harm your workers and customers, you need to prioritize it now before causing more harm. Context: laws against abortion, same-sex marriage, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-26 View on X
Reuters

As anti-abortion state laws kick in, law enforcement could force tech companies to give up users' search history, geolocation, and other pregnancy-related data

The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …

If you run a tech company but haven't examined your policies to make sure your data can't be used to harm your workers and customers, you need to prioritize it now before causing more harm. Context: laws against abortion, same-sex marriage, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-26 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Meta told staff not to discuss the Roe v. Wade ruling on wide-reaching internal channels, citing a company memo issued after the May draft opinion leak

Meta told its workers on Friday not to openly discuss the Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion …

2022-06-25
If you run a tech company but haven't examined your policies to make sure your data can't be used to harm your workers and customers, you need to prioritize it now before causing more harm. Context: laws against abortion, same-sex marriage, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-25 View on X
Reuters

As state laws limiting abortion kick in, tech companies could be forced by law enforcement to hand over users' search histories and other pregnancy-related data

The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …

2022-05-08
Say goodbye to user privacy on Twitter. “Other revenue [$4.4B] would come from businesses such as data licensing.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-05-08 View on X
New York Times

Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more

2022-04-18
Can you imagine living in this world and being oblivious to what hate speech means? Much less participating in a dialogue on a worldwide stage about it? “Hate speech is not, as Chris Anderson bizarrely seems to believe, saying ‘I hate X.’” https://www.techdirt.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-18 View on X
Techdirt

Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms

from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept  —  Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.

2022-02-19
The worst part of the whole story of Facebook's head of community development on video having “graphic and inappropriate communications with a 13-year-old boy” is Facebook telling the reporter not to write about it. https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta says a global community development head, who spoke about inappropriate communications with a 13 year old in a viral sting video, is no longer an employee

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has confirmed to TechCrunch that Jeren A. Miles, who had been a manager of global community development …

2022-01-31
It took 6 years for Ann Lai to win back the right to tell her story, and it's worth reading why VC firms fight so hard to keep ex-employees quiet https://www.elle.com/...
2022-01-31 View on X
Elle

Profile of Ann Lai, who settled a harassment lawsuit against Justin Caldbeck's Binary Capital in 2020, as she talks about her ordeal publicly for the first time

2021-12-21
Congratulations to @truebill on its acquisition after six years helping people manage and cancel subscriptions with focus and persistence out of Maryland. Huge win for a team that didn't fit the standard patterns https://finance.yahoo.com/...
2021-12-21 View on X
Yahoo Finance

Rocket Companies, a consumer finance-focused holding company, will pay $1.275B in cash to acquire personal finance app Truebill, which has 2.5M members

Brian Sozzi / Yahoo Finance :

2021-12-03
Glad to know @timnitGebru has the financial support and desire to continue her important work on ethical AI https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-03 View on X
Wired

AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who left Google last year, launches Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research, an institute focused on the responsible use of AI

The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence.

2021-11-18
I hope investors reset Activision. Anyone expressing faith in the CEO needs a reset “it's clear that the current leadership repeatedly failed to uphold a safe workplace—a basic function of their job.... We need to really have a reset button on the board.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2021-11-18 View on X
Washington Post

A group of shareholders owning less than 1% of Activision Blizzard calls for CEO Bobby Kotick and two of its longest serving board members to resign

a basic function of their job.... We need to really have a reset button on the board.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @ign : Former Blizzard co-lead Jen Oneal says Activision ...

2021-10-23
Twitter amplifying right-wing politicians is not new, but hopefully with Facebook's reputation taking even faster, they'll actually do something about it https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-23 View on X
Protocol

Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification

Anna Kramer / Protocol :

2021-10-22
Twitter amplifying right-wing politicians is not new, but hopefully with Facebook's reputation taking even faster, they'll actually do something about it https://www.protocol.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-22 View on X
Protocol

Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification

Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians … Source: Twitter .