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Josh Sternberg

@joshsternberg
113 posts
2022-09-04
Twitter can shut this account down at any moment. “Children's hospitals across the U.S. are facing growing threats of violence, driven by an online anti-LGBTQ campaign attacking the facilities for providing care to transgender kids and teens” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-09-04 View on X
Washington Post

Some online disinformation experts criticize Twitter's stance on Libs of TikTok, as some US children's hospitals face threats inspired by the anti-LGBTQ account

Washington Post :

2022-09-02
Editing tweets is gonna be such a good tool for those who argue in bad faith. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-02 View on X
The Verge

Twitter is testing an edit button, giving some Twitter Blue subscribers 30 minutes to make edits later in September 2022; edit labels include a complete history

Tom Warren / The Verge :

2022-09-01
Editing tweets is gonna be such a good tool for those who argue in bad faith. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-01 View on X
The Verge

Twitter begins testing an edit button as part of Twitter Blue, giving users 30 minutes to make several edits; edit labels include a complete history

Twitter Blue subscribers get access later this month  —  Twitter is now testing its highly-requested Edit Tweet feature.

2022-08-07
Twitter compromised: “In July 2022, we learned through a press report that someone had potentially leveraged this and was offering to sell the information they had compiled.” https://privacy.twitter.com/ ...
2022-08-07 View on X
BleepingComputer

Twitter confirms that a now-patched bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts; a threat actor offered to sell 5.4M records in December 2021

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :

2022-08-06
Twitter compromised: “In July 2022, we learned through a press report that someone had potentially leveraged this and was offering to sell the information they had compiled.” https://privacy.twitter.com/ ...
2022-08-06 View on X
BleepingComputer

Twitter confirms that a now-patched bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts; a threat actor offered to sell 5.4M records in December 2021

Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses …

2022-07-26
In a recent internal employee survey, only 39 percent of respondents reported feeling optimistic about the company's future. Just 42 percent expressed “confidence in leadership.” https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-07-26 View on X
The Verge

As Mark Zuckerberg takes a tough stance on retaining employees during a weekly Q&A, internal surveys show anxiety and unease among employees

As Meta's growth slows, Mark Zuckerberg is pushing even harder.  Will his employees melt under the pressure?

2022-06-14
“Even as YouTube serves as a major vector in the U.S. for mis- and disinformation about Covid-19 and election fraud, [those] who track social media around the world say that the video platform plays an even more problematic role in other countries.” https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/...
2022-06-14 View on X
Bloomberg

NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting Muslims and women in India

Does YouTube send unwitting users down a ‘rabbit hole’ of extremism? Tweets: @blackamazon : Why especially in the age of gross targeting and abuse for the marginalized is there no ...

2022-06-02
Billionaires live in a different reality than the rest of us. They can make shit up and suffer zero consequences. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-02 View on X
CNBC

Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta this fall after 14 years, and chief growth officer Javier Olivan will take over as COO; Sandberg will stay on Meta's board

Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Source: Sheryl Sandberg .

2022-05-11
I guess that flashy Super Bowl ad didn't really work? “Retail monthly transaction users (MTUs) fell to 9.2 million, down from 11.4 million in the fourth quarter, while total trading volume dropped from $547 billion in Q4 to $309 billion.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
2022-05-11 View on X
CNBC

Coinbase drops 20%+ after reporting $1.2B net revenue in Q1, down from $1.6B YoY, 9.2M MTUs, up from 6.1M YoY, and $309B trading volume, down from $335B YoY

- Coinbase reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday.  — The earnings come amid a major sell-off across the crypto market.

2022-05-08
NYT got its hands on Elon's pitch deck. Interesting! Lose advertising money AND generate revenue from data licensing. Who is he licensing data to? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.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

2022-05-07
NYT got its hands on Elon's pitch deck. Interesting! Lose advertising money AND generate revenue from data licensing. Who is he licensing data to? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-07 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

Here's what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter's finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.

2022-04-09
This is an excellent look at the continual shifting language of the internet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-04-09 View on X
Washington Post

Users embrace “algospeak”, like saying “unalive” instead of dead, to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch

I have a love-hate relationship with being sick. Tweets: Evan Greer / @evan_greer : I spoke with @TaylorLorenz about how attempting to “sanitize the internet” with automated conten...

2022-04-05
. @kenklippenstein reports Amazon is piloting a program banning certain words from an internal messaging app: https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-05 View on X
The Intercept

Internal Amazon documents show its planned internal messaging app would block union-related words, including “union”, “grievance”, and “pay raise”

Amazon will block and flag employee posts on a planned internal messaging app that contain keywords pertaining …

Pretty remarkable thinking about the Twitter origin story and how through all the twists and turns over the last 16 years, we end up with a libertarian billionaire 200x over sitting on its board. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-05 View on X
CNBC

Twitter appoints Elon Musk to its board after Musk purchased a 9.2% stake in the company; Musk cannot own more than 14.9% of Twitter while on the board

- Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors after taking a 9.2% stake in the social media company, according to a release filed with the SEC.

2022-04-01
Super fascinating: “Delivery in French Polynesia poses a particular logistical challenge. But homegrown courier services exist in other hard-to-reach places, particularly in countries where e-commerce giants like Amazon and Alibaba don't hold much sway.” https://restofworld.org/...
2022-04-01 View on X
Rest of World

How homegrown courier services in French Polynesia are building their own online shopping service to fill the gaps left by e-commerce giants in remote islands

an area five times as large as the French mainland. Now it's getting online shopping https://restofworld.org/... Vicki Turk / @vickiturk : How do you do online shopping when you li...

2022-03-09
“Without detailed instructions in place for war-related content, junior-level managers were charged with refining the rules as they went along, the people said. The result was inconsistencies in treatment of similar content, they said.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-03-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail TikTok's struggles to moderate its service as Russia invades Ukraine; in lieu of detailed instructions, junior employees had to refine the rules

Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @kubota_yoko and @joshsternberg Tweets: Yoko Kubota / @kubota_yoko : TikTok exploded as a social-media app with silly videos. Now some use...

2022-03-02
Why can't Facebook do this ... normally? Why does it take Russia invading Ukraine to demote propaganda? And when will Facebook do the same here? https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
Protocol

Meta will demote content linking to Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram globally and rolls out encrypted Instagram DMs in Ukraine and Russia

a rate of 1.3 billion views a day, or 928,000 views a minute https://www.wired.com/... Aisha S Gani / @aishagani : Wonder what message this gives to the Rohingya and Ethiopians who...

Why can't Facebook do this ... normally? Why does it take Russia invading Ukraine to demote propaganda? And when will Facebook do the same here? https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
MacRumors

Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine

Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …

2022-02-19
Last quarter, FB reported a loss of users for the first time. Now its stock is plummeting. Advertisers, while not leaving en masse, aren't pleased w/the platform. Lots of headwinds for FB. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta drops out of the top 10 most valuable companies globally, dropping five places since September 2021 as its market value declined by $513B to $565B

Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg :

2022-02-17
If Apple was dealing body blows to Facebook, Google just delivered a massive uppercut.
2022-02-17 View on X
Mobile Dev Memo

An in-depth look at Privacy Sandbox for Android: a two-year transition with ad industry input, a marked change from Apple's ATT, which had little external input

plans to bring a Privacy Sandbox effort to Android.  Google's  —  original Privacy Sandbox