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James Temperton

@jtemperton
13 posts
2025-11-24
Scoop: Shopify salespeople exaggerated the value of deals they were closing in an apparent attempt to earn more commission.  The scandal led to firings and an ultimatum to other staff who had faked sales: own up or risk getting found out.  —  Story by @aleksagan.bsky.social.  —  thelogic.co/news/exclusi...
2025-11-24 View on X
The Logic

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings

Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing.  When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.

One source said sales staff at Shopify felt like they were playing a video game by chasing targets instead of building a business.  The problem was, sources said, some of the numbers they reported were made up.  —  Tip @techmeme.com.  —  thelogic.co/news/exclusi...
2025-11-24 View on X
The Logic

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings

Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing.  When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.

2025-02-12
Scoop: In a leaked internal message, Shopify's general counsel said risk of fraud, not Nazi swastika, was the reason for taking down Kanye West's online store.  —  “This wasn't real commerce - it was a stunt, not a good faith attempt to make money,” the message reads.  —  thelogic.co/news/shopify... …
2025-02-12 View on X
The Logic

Internal message: Shopify's general council said the company closed Ye's store since the swastika shirt listed for sale “brought with it the real risk of fraud”

TORONTO — Shopify's general counsel said the company took down musician Kanye West's online store because of the potential …

2024-11-30
Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC are suing OpenAI. If they win, OpenAI could be asked to pay $20,000 for each and every story it allegedly scraped to train ChatGPT. We did the maths and it adds up to $322 billion. https://thelogic.co/...
2024-11-30 View on X
Toronto.com

Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use

A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …

2023-03-30
4chan is partly funded by a major Japanese toy company that has a lucrative contract with Disney. Following @Justin_Ling's investigation, that contract has been terminated https://www.wired.com/...
2023-03-30 View on X
Wired

Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys

I got my hands on records of the corporate partnership that enabled, and financed, the corrosive imageboard. Tweets: Liam Robertson / @doctor_cupcakes : This is such a bizarre stor...

2023-03-06
The second story in our investigation focuses on the people behind the numbers. We reconstructed Rotterdam's welfare algorithm to see how it discriminates against people—and the effect it has on their lives https://www.wired.com/...
2023-03-06 View on X
Wired

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.

2022-09-24
When Google's tech was banned in some Danish schools, kids were so unused to pen and paper they couldn't read their own handwriting. Fascinating story about the ubiquity of big tech in education https://www.wired.com/...
2022-09-24 View on X
Wired

How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data

An 8-year-old's YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant's ubiquity and handling of children's data. Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @...

2022-03-02
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war—but it is the first to play out on TikTok. @stokel explains what that means for how information, both true and false, spreads online https://www.wired.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
Wired

Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows that TikTok's design and algorithm are ideal for sharing videos of war, but present a challenge for its moderation system

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine plays out online, the platform's design and algorithm prove ideal for the messiness of war—but a nightmare for the truth. Tweets: @stokel , @stokel ...

2021-04-01
Nick Clegg has published a very long Medium post about why Facebook is, in fact, really great and not a threat to democracy. His argument is flawed! First up, he blames humanity, not Facebook, for making Facebook a polarising hellhole. Nice try, Nick! https://medium.com/...
2021-04-01 View on X
Medium

Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to continually push users toward more extreme content

In  —  a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”

2021-03-31
Nick Clegg has published a very long Medium post about why Facebook is, in fact, really great and not a threat to democracy. His argument is flawed! First up, he blames humanity, not Facebook, for making Facebook a polarising hellhole. Nice try, Nick! https://medium.com/...
2021-03-31 View on X
Medium

Nick Clegg defends Facebook, saying it is not in the company's interest, financially or reputationally, to push users towards ever more extreme content

In  —  a recent article for The Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance compared Facebook to a Doomsday Machine: “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.”

2021-03-17
Uber didn't “struggle to identify solutions” or decide to “turn the page”. It spent years fighting tooth and nail to deny drivers basic rights enshrined in law. It's only doing this because the Supreme Court left it no choice. Bold, tedious spin by @dkhos https://www.standard.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-17 View on X
London Evening Standard

Uber's thinking on UK driver rights has evolved and worker flexibility “should not come at the expense of social protections”

Dara Khosrowshahi / London Evening Standard :

2020-10-02
Deliveroo says its couriers are “heroes”. We spoke to one Deliveroo courier working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day to feed his three children. On some days, he works 12 hours and makes just £75. He's struggling to make ends meet and he's not alone https://www.wired.co.uk/...
2020-10-02 View on X
WIRED UK

As Deliveroo says it will add 15,000 couriers, whom it calls “heroes”, by the end of 2020, some couriers say they are struggling to make enough to live on

2020-06-04
Revolut staff claim they're being forced out to cut costs. Why? As one Revolut staffer told @Mellino “They don't care about people.” https://www.wired.co.uk/...
2020-06-04 View on X
WIRED UK

Revolut employees say 50+ staff in Poland and Portugal were given the choice of being terminated or receiving severance if they left by “mutual agreement”

Emiliano Mellino / WIRED UK : Tweets: @mellino , @sharonodea , @jtemperton , @chris_skinner , and @martinsfp Tweets: Emiliano Mellino / @mellino : We tend to forget that the bulk ...