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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
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2023-3-14
Microsoft
AI
Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2022-11-5
Google
Twitter
Sources: Twitter's newsletter platform Revue, acquired in early 2021, is scheduled to close by the end of the year, and its Notes product has been paused
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2022-11-4
Twitter
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges
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2022-10-31
Twitter
Sources: Twitter engineers were told on Friday to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, before being told to shred all printouts
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2022-10-30
Twitter
Elon Musk
A leaked email shows Ben Chestnut stepped down in August as Mailchimp CEO after arguing that asking for pronouns at start of meetings “does more harm than good”
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2022-10-21
Interviews with journalists at The Wire, sources at Meta, and knowledgeable outside observers describe the messy fight between Meta and The Wire
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2022-10-18
Meta is testing letting average users inform its speech policies, which started with a pilot from February-April 2022 on “problematic” climate info on Facebook
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2022-9-21
Facebook
Climate
Source: Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox directed the New Product Experimentation division to scale back and focus entirely on short-form video innovation
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2022-9-16
TikTok and ByteDance's links to China mean wrongdoing will be punished more harshly in the US than Meta and Twitter, no matter how “transparent” the company is
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2022-9-15
China
Twitter
Cloudflare belatedly banning Kiwi Farms demonstrates the “stochastic terrorism loophole”, offering groups cover as long as no one explicitly calls for murder
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2022-9-7
Terrorism
Sources detail Meta's challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users' apathy toward encryption, which could change due to Roe's reversal
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2022-8-13
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will walk back some recent changes to the product following mounting criticism, including reducing the number of recommended posts
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2022-7-29
Instagram
A critique of Ev Williams' 10-year tenure at Medium and how it got caught in the middle between Substack and well-funded publishers like BuzzFeed and Vice
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2022-7-13
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