Enlarge (credit: JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) Elon Musk on Wednesday offered to personally acquire Twitter in an all-cash deal valued at $43 billion. Musk laid out the terms of the proposal in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor that was reproduced in an SEC filing. Twitter confirmed […]
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April 2018. It wasn’t his only appearance in DC this decade. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded an optimistic note three years ago when he wrote about the progress his company was making in automated moderation tools powered by artificial intelligence. […]
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ) Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were posting things to their accounts that would get caught in the company’s automated moderation system or taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take […]
Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to uphold Donald Trump’s suspension isn’t much of a decision at all. Read More
Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to uphold Donald Trump’s suspension isn’t much of a decision at all. Read More
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Parler is about to be re-platformed. The app for the “free speech” social media company will be available once again on Apple’s App Store. Apple reinstated Parler on April 14, according to a letter from Apple to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), which was made public today. […]
Enlarge (credit: Thomas Trutschel / Getty Images) Twitter is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, alleging a probe Paxton launched into its business is an act of retaliation against the platform’s choice to ban the account of former US President Donald Trump. The suit (PDF) accuses Paxton of using his office to “intimidate, harass, and […]
Clubhouse has lured in tech elites, but it’s also suffering some concerning issues. Read More
Enlarge / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017. (credit: Jason Doiy | Getty Images) Facebook’s Oversight Board is getting its highest-profile case yet, as the company kicks its decision to boot former-President Donald Trump off its platforms to the largely untested “Supreme Court” of social media for review. Facebook suspended Trump’s Facebook […]
LinkedIn faced an unprecedented challenge this season since consumers raised the amount of posts that they created with 50%, signifying a record growth in articles on the agency. However, the influx also contributed to more debatable articles, prompting LinkedIn to twist its own principles and enlarge its content management group. However, as events such as […]