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I spent time with Linda Yaccarino over the past few weeks, interviewing her four times for this week's
@FT
magazine
The Madison Avenue power broker sought out the CEO job at Twitter/X under Elon Musk
But will it be the making or the breaking of her?
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Musk right now casually walking through his grand payments vision for Twitter:
Users could link their online bank account to Twitter, he says. Then the company will offer "extremely compelling money market account to get extremely high yield on your balance". Add debit cards etc
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Incredible video of the people of Naples singing together from their balconies during the coronavirus quarantine
#italy
#coronavirus
From
@visit_naples
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Why
#infosecbikini
matters:
At 2019
@defcon
I went to the bathroom and a woman was weeping. She'd been at a stall trying to crack some cryptogram puzzles and the man in charge told her it'd be complex for her, she should to go to the "babies stall". She had a PhD in cryptography.
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Extremely useful chart as covid runs rampant in the UK and we all plan for Christmas
It shows how long after exposure to covid you will be detectable by a lateral flow test vs a PCR test if you do have it
And at what stages you are likely infectious
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NEW: A Facebook manager warned internally that the company made revenues it “should have never made” by overstating how many users advertisers could reach, according to class action lawsuit
Execs refused to fix the issue "to preserve FB's own bottom line"
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TikTok owner ByteDance has admitted it inappropriately obtained the data of users - including that of my Financial Times colleague
@CristinaCriddle
- in order to analyse their location as part of an internal leaks investigation
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If accurate it looks like the Trump campaign website was very temporarily hacked (but since restored)
Hackers inserted a message saying they had evidence "proving his criminal involvment and cooperation with foreign actors manipulating the 2020 election"
Trump campaign website now seems to be down. This is part of the message that was showing on the site just a few minutes ago.
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NEW: the head of the US Committee on Oversight and Reform has sent a letter to social media platform Parler demanding it hand over docs related to its finance and foreign ties - including to “any Russian individual or entity”
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As she told her story, two other women entered the bathroom and began sharing similar experiences. One, of sexual harassment. All three in tears. I'd been at Defcon less than an hour.
Women in infosec are harassed in their professional lives & harassed for having personal lives
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NEW: Telegram - the messaging app that's exploded in popularity in the wake of the Parler shutdown - began shutting down public domestic extremist/white supremacist groups for the first time yesterday, according to researchers
Story w/
@SVR13
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BREAKING: Discord tells me they've shut down the WallStreetBets server (their equivalent of the Reddit forum) "for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings"
Says this was not "due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks"
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NEW: Facebook execs allegedly “knew for years” that a key advertising metric - the potential audience of ads - was "inflated" but failed to disclose or fix the issue, according to a class-action lawsuit
Sheryl Sandberg COO & David Wehner CFO are named
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New Twitter CEO tells staff they need to deploy “hand-to-hand combat” to win back advertisers
Among her plans:
- new sound-on, full-screen video ads to run in the TikTok-style video feed
- boost in ads headcount
- facilitate brand deals for celebs
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As a journalist, I've covered male-dominated industries - including traditional finance and crypto. But I've been shocked to see how tough it is to be a women in cybersecurity in particular
I'll be at Defcon in person this year (let's hang!) and desperately hoping we see better
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This in the ongoing Twitter Spaces with Elon:
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ICYMI: Musk has personally called CEOs of brands that have curbed advertising in order to berate them, according to a senior ads exec
This has lead some to reduce their spend to the bare minimum required so as to avoid further confrontation with him
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NEW: Twitter announces it’s exploring tipping and “Super Follows” - where users can super follow accounts, paying them a subscription for exclusive content, like Patreon
Curious whether newsrooms will allow reporters to generate extra revenues for themselves in this way or not?
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Our fully story here:
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WILD: TikTok internal docs suggested it censor the words "Financial Times" "article" "toxic" and "culture" from its comments today 👀
This following an FT investigation into its allegedly toxic workplace culture
Scoops by
@CristinaCriddle
:
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How votes are expected to split between MACRON and LE PEN in the 2nd round. This according to Ifop polling on Friday:
#Presidentielle2017
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Breaking: Goldman Sachs banker David Schwimmer named ceo of London Stock Exchange
Sadly, not this David Schwimmer...
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If you're drowning in a sea of Facebook coverage, here's some top takeaways:
1) Docs highlight a lack of consistent investment in safety/moderation in non-English language markets
Worst, many are fragile countries where speech can be most harmful
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Looks like ad agencies are now joining the Facebook
#stophateforprofit
boycott
Goodby is a big Omnicom Group ad agency with clients including Adobe, Cisco, BMW, Paypal and Pepsi among others...
We will join
#StopHate4Profit
and stop posting on
@Facebook
for the month of July. We are taking this action to protest the platform’s irresponsible propagation of hate speech, racism, and misleading voter information. We encourage clients and our own people to join us.
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It also includes a request for "all documents and communications referring to relating to a proposal to provide President Donald Trump with an ownership stake in Parler"
This following reporting by Buzzfeed of a Trump-Parler deal that was never finalised:
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SCOOP: Boz, the exec leading Facebook’s push into the metaverse, has told employees he wants its virtual worlds to have “almost Disney levels of safety”
But also acknowledged that moderation “at any meaningful scale is practically impossible”
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In case you’re wondering how my Easter weekend went, took Dudley to a newly-opened pet store where he tried on this epic hat and then got entered into a doggie photo contest. I can’t even 🤣
(& if you like his pics on the gram, he’d really appreciate it: )
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Personal news klaxon🔔: in a case of 'new year, new me', I'm very excited to be joining the
@FinancialTimes
team in San Francisco next week to cover technology and social media. All your West Coast advice, help and story tips welcome! My DMs are open.
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Clarity that Twitter Blue, due to roll out tomorrow, does not include ID verification.
Meanwhile govt accounts, companies, media outlets, and "some public figures" will now get an 'Official' label next to their name. It's not for sale & Twitter will decide who gets it.
A lot of folks have asked about how you'll be able to distinguish between
@TwitterBlue
subscribers with blue checkmarks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why we’re introducing the “Official" label to select accounts when we launch.
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Privately, Musk is meeting with advertisers and having staffers send emails to reassure them that the platform will be "warm and welcoming to all"
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BREAKING: WhatsApp has delayed the roll-out of its new privacy policy for three months, citing "confusion" and "misinformation" about the changes - which have sent worried users flocking to lesser-known apps Signal and Telegram
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NEW: IBM has suspended global advertising from Elon Musk’s X following a report that its adverts ran alongside pro-Nazi material
Ads from Apple, Oracle, Comcast’s Xfinity and Bravo were also found next to the pro-Nazi content:
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when your aunt (illustrator of postman pat!!) wrote a coupla children’s books based on you as a toddler and...
My plans: 2020:
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NEW: The New York attorney general is launching an investigation into robocalls that appear designed to spread disinformation to voters
NY AG Letitia James' office says they already issued subpoenas to investigate the source of these robocalls earlier this week
#Election2020
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See also:
the problem with antagonizing your biggest advertisers in a series of tweets is that the lions share of ad budgets spent on twitter are minuscule compared to other platforms (GOOG, FB)
not a huge deal for them to walk from their smallest ad spend platform to avoid controversy
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In public, he polled users on whether advertisers should support Freedom of Speech or "Political Correctness"
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Just to note though, there is a little flaw...
Some groups are simply returning to Telegram under the exact same name, albeit from scratch. Looks like Telegram has a way to go to finetune its moderation capabilities, but it's a start.
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In 2021, $40.9 billion was poured into the NFT market
By comparison, last year the global art market was worth $50.1bn
So far, the space is highly concentrated - some 9% of wallets hold 80% of the value of the market
Our
@FT
read on NFT mania & whales:
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Elon Musk told advertisers who halted spending on X over his endorsement of an antisemitic post to “go fuck” themselves, deepening a rift between the billionaire and...the companies that generate almost all of the social media platform’s revenues
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SCOOP: Facebook has big NFT plans, per sources. So far, it's:
- Internally testing a feature to allow users to showcase their NFTs on Instagram
- Developing a prototype for users to mint NFTs
- Exploring launching an NFT marketplace
w/
@CristinaCriddle
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Wow it actually happened
Twitter is suing Elon Musk to force the completion of his $44bn acquisition of the company & accusing him of violating a non-disparagement clause
The lawsuit actually includes a screenshot of the infamous poop emoji tweet he sent to CEO Parag Agrawal
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SCOOP: Facebook execs say the company is suffering from a "trust deficit" on a private call with ~200 advertisers, as brands such as North Face, Ben & Jerry's and Patagonia join the boycott over its policy on Trump posts
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For this week's FT Magazine cover,
@kiranstacey
and i spoke with 30+ insiders on the rise and fall of Facebook's cryptocurrency Diem
A tale of money and hubris, 3 years in the making & the longest I've ever written by far
Here's some of what we learned🧵
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After two years of trying to persuade the elusive Telegram CEO Pavel Durov to sit for an interview, he agreed & broke his silence in the media for the 1st time since 2017.
In this 1st piece, we spoke about Telegram's growth, monetisation & potential IPO:
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Truly a line I never thought I'd write in the Financial Times:
"Musk replied with an emoji of a pile of poo."
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And as of just now, he appears to be publicly berating them:
Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?
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The FBI, Secret Service, DEA, Customs & Border Protection all use controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, per this GAO report:
It lists all the US federal agencies that admit to using facial recognition systems, and what they use:
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In case you’re wondering how my weekend went, it was Gucci and glasses for Dudley’s 2nd birthday! Happy Monday everyone 🎂🎂
cc
@darth
📷
@JamesClayton5
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QAnon adherents expected a violent day of reckoning on Wednesday - blackouts, military tribunals led by Trump and the mass arrest & execution of Democrats
Instead many faced their own personal reckoning as these prophecies did not come to pass
w/
@SVR13
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Facebook is hoping that its 2.6bn users will shop on its platform, launching its biggest e-commerce play yet
I interviewed Zuckerberg who told me FB will be able to use the new data to improve its advertising service & ad prices should rise as a result
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For those interested, here's the full statement from Discord when I asked if they had taken down any content or banned/restricted users for involvement in the Gamestop saga:
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NEW: Politicians are increasingly hiring private contractors to spread disinformation online, according to
@oiioxford
researchers who found campaigns run by third-party contractors targeting 48 different countries over the past year
Story w/
@SVR13
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SCOOP: Facebook is exploring the creation of virtual currency (dubbed 'Zuck Bucks' internally) for the metaverse, "social tokens" & lending services
Its finance push comes despite the collapse of its Diem/Libra cryptocurrency project earlier this year 🧵
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ICYMI - I nabbed this first print interview(s) with Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino for the
@FT
mag this weekend
Some observations:
Linda stonewalls and dodges questions on safety & how policy is actually developed. The spectre of Musk hangs over her.
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Stumbled upon this reader comment on an old article and they say millennials need to stop moaning but you know what WHY AM I NOT LIVING MY LIFE LIKE BRIAN?!?
#millennialjournowoes
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Incredible chart showing facial recognition technology systems used by federal agencies with law enforcement officers, and the no. of photos they have
Yes, that's Clearview AI in the middle w/ 3 billion photos:
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If you think GameStop is wild, I delved w/
@staffordphilip
into the cultish world of penny stocks and the trader mini-celebrities that pump them feverishly via social media
Think defunct companies, VIP groups, fake accounts & potential market manipulation
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The group in this viral video call themselves "America's Frontline Doctors".
It looks like they are closely affiliated with the 'Tea Party Patriots' (an arm of the far-right Tea Party).
Their website is 11 days old.
#Facebook
#Hydroxychloroquine
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In other news, Facebook (Meta) just sent an email calling reporters 'MEDIAMATES'
is this really what i signed up for😅
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quite a way to make $$$
"All of a sudden, the bets made sense: QAnon followers believed that Q had special inside information about the future, and they bet accordingly.
Cage began scanning PredictIt for QAnon theories and betting against them."
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SCOOP: Lawyers representing UK staff fired by Elon Musk have accused Twitter of a “sham redundancy process” and threatened to flood it with more lawsuits
UK trade union Prospect is calling for Twitter to “pause the redundancy process” due to the concerns:
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Cristina has led FT coverage on the working conditions of TikTok staffers
The FT said: “Spying on reporters, interfering with their work or intimidating their sources is completely unacceptable. We’ll be investigating this story more fully before deciding our formal response.”
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SCOOP: Several Libra founding backers are concerned about the regulatory spotlight & considering cutting ties.
With Libra’s backers not speaking out in support of the project, Facebook in turn has become frustrated with the members, sources say.
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Potentially huge: EU lawmakers overseeing digital regulation want to force Big Tech companies such as Google and Facebook to pay for news - echoing a similar move in Australia
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BREAKING: Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia’s biggest telecoms providers used tactics typical of Russian trolls to discredit rivals.
It's one of FB's first takedowns of "commercial disinformation", as opposed to political disinformation.
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SCOOP w/
@kiranstacey
The Trump campaign sent Facebook ads to 200,000 voters in swing states (Florida, Arizona and Georgia) on Tuesday telling them it was Election Day - despite a FB ban on ads sharing the wrong date under its misinformation rules
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Remarkable statement from New York Attorney General Letitia James just now.
She calls today's events a "coup attempt" fuelled by Trump-pushed lies and conspiracy theories.
"If blood is shed, it will be on his hands," she says.
#dcprotest
#DCRally
#DCRIOTS
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Inside the billionaire bromance that has dramatically shaken up the future of Twitter
Growing disdain for Wall Street and tensions with Twitter's board led Dorsey to believe that Musk taking the company private was its best option
w/
@CristinaCriddle
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The quasi-militarised and highly technological police response to various mass protest movements of the past decade - from Occupy to BLM - has unnerved activists
As the market for surveillance continues to balloon, here's how some are fighting back:
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NEW: Twitter is launching a dedicated crypto team - Dorsey's latest push to embrace digital assets, decentralised apps and the ballooning communities around them
Twitter Crypto will be “a centre of excellence for all things blockchain and web3”, it says
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Where does Armstrong fit on the spectrum of shill to visionary? One former colleague tells me he’s “like a guy riding a magic carpet, who thinks he’s magic and not the carpet”
But no one can doubt his self-belief.
My Lunch with
@ft
with the Coinbase CEO:
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Comcast have just confirmed to me that they are also pausing spending on Elon Musk's X amid concerns about antisemitic content
Bad look for Linda Yaccarino who previously headed up NBCUniversal's advertising business before joining X in June
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Some (minor) personal news!
I’m off on sabbatical until the end of August. Excited to lock my phone away, spend time with friends/fam back in the UK after being unable to leave the US during the pandemic, travel & play lots of music
A snippet of a recent gig (im on jazz flute!)
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Final push to get lil Dudley to win his first doggie photo contest which closes midnight tonight! He is neck and neck with another doggo but just look at him in his fancy boy hat 🙌
Go like his pic at and he’ll really appreciate it!
cc
@darth
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There is a ‘but’ however!
Many analysts warn that the freewheeling market is likely being inflated by market manipulation, especially wash trading - when a trader takes both sides of a trade to give the false impression of demand
And newer players are yet to profit, on average
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Hello! I'll be working from the FT NYC office next week
if anyone wants to chat - in person, in confidence - over a ☕️ or 🍺, my dms are open or hmu on Signal +1 415 805 2350!
(particularly any X/Twitter, Meta or other social media folks)
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Wild that it has had to take enormous public pressure to convince Facebook to share research that the company claims exculpates them on all fronts
FB's Nick Clegg is speaking right now at Atlantic Live and says the company plans to release the IG research decks cited by the WSJ series later this week. It released one slide last night, but Clegg says they'll make it all public in next few days
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NEW: Close to 200 Facebook employees have signed an open letter to leadership raising concerns that Pro-Palestine voices are being suppressed by its moderation systems
It calls for measures (eg internal investigation & audit) to address the situation:
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Breaking news! This is Dudley and he is addicted to my work
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You're a CEO and your company is hacked by ransomware criminals. Can you negotiate your way out of paying a hefty fee?
Proud to have played a part in creating this
@FT
interactive game - and digging into the secretive field of ransomware negotiators
➡️⬅️
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The US cyber agency issued an emergency directive ordering federal agencies to disconnect SolarWinds' products:
SolarWinds' client list also includes UK defence agencies, the NHS, the European Parliament, plus US govt & military:
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Facebook & Twitter are struggling to contain rising anger from Trump supporters, as a wave of momentum builds around the "stop the steal" slogan
This is where we could see online conspiracy theories stoke real-world violence & civic unrest
#ELECTION2020
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Honoured to see Philip Glass
@philipglass
- a personal hero - perform and share stories last night.
He told us how he worked odd jobs until he was 40 to support his music, and was still working as a taxi driver when one passenger noted he had the same name as a famous composer
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Whether you agree with the outcome or not, we're looking at -
SEC: 1
Coinbase: 0
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One year since we lost a dear friend, colleague and ridiculously talented young journalist Paul McClean. We miss him terribly. Pics from our first week at the FT as nervous trainees. (Paul was, of course, a TV natural!)
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3) Facebook deliberately made it harder to report and appeal against decisions on hate speech in 2019 as part of a cost-cutting effort to shift from human moderation to AI
This is despite internal findings that the company takes action on only 3 to 5% of hate speech
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Additional reading: a deeper dive into FB's metrics problem by me &
@ElaineDMoore
"Growth in user numbers looks significantly less impressive once adjusted for duplicate/fake accounts - up 7% in the past 2 years, rather than 18% calculated by Facebook"
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Returning to the UK after 2 years:
Parents collect me at airport. Mum tries to drive us out of airport car park. We leave but accidentally loop back into car park cos Dad too slow giving directions. We have to pay £5 fee to leave again. Mum mad at Dad. Feels good to be home!!!
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So, my 'Best artist of 2015' awards
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@HiatusKaiyote
2.
@HiatusKaiyote
3.
@HiatusKaiyote
Did i miss anyone?
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When you join a conference call late and the PR is telling your interviewee to "just keep it very high level and don't say anything specific"
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no they did not just sign off with "period"!!!
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It’s official! Blue Ticks for sale for $7.99 a month
Elon Musk has launched the new Twitter Blue premium subscription service a week into his ownership of the platform and mere days before the US midterm elections
“Power to the people” says the Twitter App Store update
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