My book on facial recognition technology comes out on September 19! Over the last two years, I tracked down the tech's early pioneers, found the people fighting against its worst impulses, and dove into the history of Clearview AI, the start-up that first drew me into the topic with a radical person-finding app that giants in the field, including Google and Facebook, had deemed taboo. It feels real now because there's a release date and a preorder button: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/

This week a cheap fake tweet targeting an emergency ICU doctor made its way through the right-wing internet, from a white supremacist troll to millions via Joe Rogan's podcast. Twitter refused her pleas to remove it. I spoke with the doctor. https://t.co/ejMj1uHA3n

"Our personal clouds may grow so vast that no one will ever go through them, and all the bits and bytes could end up just blowing away" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/technology/cloud-data-storage-google-apple-meta.html @kashhill

In The Age Of TikTok, YouTube Shorts Is A Platform In Purgatory https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2022/12/20/youtube-shorts-monetization-multiformat/

Nice new search in video feature https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-in-video-34600.html

Very good piece by @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/19/i-speak-fluent-new-social-media-ceo-whos-in-over-their-head-let-me-translate-the-last-few-days-of-twitter-policy/ #twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #tech #technews #technology #journalist

We found out what really happened in the stalking incident Elon Musk cited to ban @elonjet and a bunch of journalists. This is the story we were asking Musk about on Twitter when he suspended @taylorlorenz. (I'm still suspended!) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/