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 .
Dogecoin dropped by about a third during Elon Musk's SNL appearance; Musk conceded during the skit that Dogecoin was merely a “hustle”
Saturday night was the moment it became absolutely undeniable: tech is culture now. — As Elon Musk took the stage on Saturday Night Live …
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …
An oral history of #hugops and the growing community of operations engineers who offer support for their peers before and during major cloud service outages
Tom Krazit / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @lisaphillips , @ejgreenberg , @timgrieve , @fastly , @tomkrazit , @rseroter , and @protocol Tweets: @protocol : The people who keep th...
Inside Chess.com's streaming success, with Twitch users watching 18.3M hours of chess content in January, nearly as much as they consumed throughout all of 2019
Incoming head of Senate antitrust subcommittee Amy Klobuchar introduces an antitrust bill that would raise the bar for tech acquisitions
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Bose is shutting down its AR program, saying its technology couldn't be commercialized as planned, with current AR apps ceasing to function within 30 days
& still do. I suspect that one day this type of platform will go gangbusters. Maybe that'll be at Bose, maybe somewhere else. https://twitter.com/... Tim Grieve / @timgrieve : And ...
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March
@ow https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @vivekxk : 1/5 Seems like the Giphy deal is strategically great for FB and probably gave Giphy the lifeline it needed. FB...
Facebook's purchase of Giphy gives FB insight into how and where gifs are shared outside of its own apps, including device IDs and keystrokes in Giphy tools
GIPHY joins Facebook's data collection arsenal — Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine …
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March
John Borthwick was one of Giphy's first believers. The company, which Facebook just bought for a reported $400 million, launched in 2013 out of Betaworks …
As COVID-19 confines people to their homes and prohibits gatherings, US political races are moving online, causing anxiety for some campaigns
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol : Tweets: @issielapowsky and @timgrieve Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : “We're canceling our paid canvassing plans. We're not going door to doo...
How one researcher is using Facebook's anonymized data sets and new colocation maps to identify social distancing habits
Facebook's mapping tools are helping researchers in California track whether people are following social distancing orders. — As the COVID-19 outbreak continued … Tweets: @emilyd...
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas ,...