What a juxtaposition of headlines from NYT. Given the first one, may we should *not* make AI smarter?
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Matt Bindernew from me: More than half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers are no longer subscribed to the service
that is, over 54% of the 150,000 users who first subscribed when Twitter Blue launched in November are no longer subscribing
https://mashable.com/article/half-of-twitter-blue-earliest-subscribers-no-longer-subscribed
Casey NewtonPLUS: Coming up this weekend, my first story for This American Life. It’s a story about Yoel Roth’s time at Twitter, both before and after Elon Musk took over, and about the sacrifices that people working in trust and safety make in order to build a safer internet.
You can get the podcast here: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/listen
Dell Cameron 🐈⬛interesting look at the decline of OBGYN services in red states, where the best students no longer want to train, and can’t even get accredited:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/21/abortion-ban-states-obgyn-residency-applications/
Tim MakThis is first on Mastodon! Please boost this thread. It’s an important one.
Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Some career news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically reduced the company’s workforce.
I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.
But this time, alone.
I don't think that we talk enough about how tw*tter's internal incentives lead many of us to come away from the platform more frustrated and annoyed by the folks we agree with.
Proud of the stand @NPR is taking. I’m ready to see Twitter disintegrate. It’s a caricatured, hollowed out version of what it once was. I still find myself going there because I have yet to find a useful alternative. But I can’t escape the fact that I’m increasingly uncomfortable offering my content there.
Rob ⬛👁️⬛"At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter," he says. "I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again." - NPR CEO John Lansing
#NPR #Trust #Twitter #Misinformation #RuinedReputation
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label
Gianpietro Mazzoleni
Josh SternbergGreat coda to the fantastic and empathetic reporting from @zadrozny on Tiffany Dover, the spread of misinformation, the challenges PR teams have in fighting that spread, and how conspiracies are clearly no longer aimed at the famous but instead the normies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/tiffany-dover-conspiracy-theorists-silence-rcna69401
