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Articles from www.platformer.news

Meta's Oversight Board took 234 days to get a ruling in an incitement to violence case involving Hun Sen, revealing a problem with the board's glacial pace (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-30

After countless examples of Elon Musk walking back announcements, the business media must rethink its coverage of X, Musk, and the fight with Mark Zuckerberg (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-8 Elon Musk Zuckerberg

US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user (www.platformer.news)
2023-8-6

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-25 Twitter Elon Musk

Threads' early growth decisively proved the demand for a new text-based conversation app that could fully supplant Twitter's role in shaping public conversation (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-18 Twitter

Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram handle, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, more (www.platformer.news)
2023-7-6 Instagram

Reddit's API changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of its data, a long-planned IPO, and profitable third-party clients generating no revenue for Reddit (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-13 IPO Reddit

Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-11 Google Twitter

How Twitter, YouTube, and Meta gave up on removing lies about the 2020 US Presidential elections, having briefly banded together to do the right thing (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-7 YouTube Twitter

Sources: Elon Musk cut the Twitter Spaces team, which once numbered as many as 100 employees, down to roughly three people over the past several months (www.platformer.news)
2023-5-27 Twitter Elon Musk

Twitter's encrypted DMs don't offer end-to-end encryption, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and open to government access requests (www.platformer.news)
2023-5-16 Twitter

Documents: Twitter maintains a list of ~35 accounts which it monitors and offers increased visibility including AOC, Joe Biden, Marc Andreessen, and Elon Musk (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-28 Twitter Elon Musk

Sources: Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams that was tasked with assessing the risks associated with integrating OpenAI's tech into its products (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-14 Microsoft AI

Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-10 Decentralize

Meta is exploring a decentralized social network for sharing text updates; the app will reportedly let users log in with Instagram and is codenamed P92 (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-10 Instagram Decentralize

Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer attached to the project to migrate to a paid API made a bad configuration change (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-6 Twitter

Sources: The Boring Company CEO Steve Davis has been in charge of Twitter's cost-cutting, including recent layoffs, amid talk that he will be Twitter's next CEO (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-28 Twitter Layoffs

Sources: Twitter's engineers built a system to boost Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Biden's Super Bowl tweet performed better than his (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-15 Twitter

Sources: Elon Musk publicly fired a Twitter engineer for suggesting that his engagement numbers are down not because of a bug but because of waning popularity (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-10 Twitter Elon Musk

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce a venture to explore social apps, the first being Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-1 Instagram

The DOJ's case against Google could succeed as it is rooted in real harms and is a fairly simple case of market consolidation hurting people by overcharging (www.platformer.news)
2023-1-25 Google

Twitter's head of product and engineering Behnam Rezaei and acting head of human resources Katie Marcotte, who was at Twitter for 10 years, have resigned (www.platformer.news)
2023-1-4 Twitter

Sources: Twitter is considering forcing all users to opt in to personalized ads and location data sharing, but may let Blue users opt out of personalized ads (www.platformer.news)
2022-12-14 Twitter

Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, in an attempt to rid Twitter of spam (www.platformer.news)
2022-12-13 Mobile Asia Twitter

Internal messages show Twitter's EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY, weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-30 Twitter

Sources: Twitter has begun reinstating ~62K accounts with more than 10K followers after Musk's poll on general amnesty; one of those accounts has 5M+ followers (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-29 Twitter

A Twitter HQ seating chart shows Elon Musk's top five special projects: Blue verified, Blue for business, encrypted DMs, tips on tweets, and longform notes (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-18 Twitter Elon Musk

A look at a doc from Twitter's trust and safety team on Nov. 1 that detailed how the new Blue subscription could be abused, largely ignored in a rush to launch (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-15 Twitter

Sources: Musk has pitched charging most or all users a subscription fee to use Twitter; internal estimates show the new Blue could actually lose Twitter money (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-8 Twitter

Some current Twitter employees created Google Docs listing who they could confirm was still employed, after an internal directory was made inaccessible (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-5 Google Twitter

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