Oh, Apple. Never change (h/t Peter Kafka)
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Big update: It's not one lawsuit - it's three.
1. Co-founders vs Trump Media
2. Trump Media and DWAC vs. ex-CEO, alleging "avarice & incompetence"
3. Orlando vs DWAC, alleging “strong-arming tactics”
All-out legal war amid Trump cash crunch. DWAC down 9%
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/29/truth-social-lawsuit-trump-media-founders/
Sen. Wyden:
"The Administration’s decision to limit personal data flows only to a handful of countries of concern, like China, is a mistake. Authoritarian dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and UAE cannot be trusted with Americans' personal data," either. And ...
“The Administration has argued Congress should not ban the U.S. government from buying Americans' data, because such protections would put the U.S. at a disadvantage to China and Russia. With this EO, that argument is no longer valid”
First president in history to have his mugshot on the Wii News Channel
New York Times spokesman Charlie Stadtlander tells me in a statement: "We have not received any explanation from the platform about this move" and "would be concerned by targeted pressure applied to any news organization for unclear reasons"
Substack’s cofounders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi tell me in a statement: "Substack was created in direct response to this kind of behavior by social media companies" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/
Gizmodo bosses desperate for that sweet AI content used ChatGPT to make a lame SEO-bait Star Wars ranking that ended up being wrong, making everyone mad and getting a pitiful amount of traffic - 12,000 views, and probably mostly hateclicks. Great story by @pranshuverma
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/08/gizmodo-ai-errors-star-wars/
New: Erica Marsh became one of the most consistently viral liberal accounts on Twitter. Only problem: She's probably fake. Her account was suspended after we asked Twitter workers about it. Doesn't this kind of rage baiting make you angry? Boost if you agree
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/twitter-erica-marsh-suspended/
A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along
For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”
