Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team
Removing child exploitation is “priority #1”, Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week. But, at the same time, following widespread layoffs and resignations,...
The US Congress Is Starting to Question This Whole Crypto Thing
“I think that a lot of members of Congress have assumed that the digital asset industry could be on the back burner because it’s immature,” Lummis...
Crypto Contagion Is Spreading, Fast
To ensure Genesis wasn’t hamstrung by the loss, its parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG), bailed it out. But in the aftermath, Genesis cut 20 percent of...
They Wanted a Baby, Then Twitter Fired Them
Jane—not her real name—has wanted a baby for years. The Twitter employee, whose identity has been protected because she is unable to speak to the press...
I Lost $17,000 in Crypto. Here’s How to Avoid My Mistake
In 2014, I bought 25,000 dogecoin as a joke. By 2021, it was briefly worth over $17,000. Problem was, I couldn’t remember the password. Determined to...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Risks Big Fines From US Regulators
The FTC’s treatment of Facebook helps illustrate the danger to Musk and Twitter. In 2019, following a complaint alleging violation of a 2012 order, the agency...
Truth Social Is Rising as the Anti-Mastodon
“Not only are people going there, getting news and information and finding it accurate, but they also feel at home there,” says Galen Stocking, a computational...
Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
This data could add to the challenges Musk faces as he attempts a turnaround for the company, which he has loaded with debt. Advertisers provide the...
The Race To Save Sam Bankman-Fried’s Other Crypto Exchange
The effort was orchestrated via GitHub and Telegram, where prominent members of the Solana community gathered. Some, like Max Schneider of trading platform Mango Markets, took the...
Your Google Searches Are Quietly Evolving. Here’s What’s Next
Changes to the way Google handles search rankings are intended to push up content from real people, not content farms optimizing content for search engines, and...