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Elon takes over Twitter
Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please
Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived
The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.
How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor
"Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."
Twitter's other porn problem
Imagine the company did want to monetize adult content. Would Apple let it?
Elon bails on Twitter
This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?
Twitter's meltdown May
Elon Musk's deal is looking wobbly, and the CEO just fired his top two lieutenants
Elon Musk joins the Twitter board
Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power
How Signal is playing with fire
Signal employees are worried about anonymous crypto payments.
It’s time to deplatform Trump
After today, platforms should finally see the moral clarity about their role in world events.
YouTube comes for Q - Platformer
Plus: Twitter and the New York Post, revisited
Can Telepath fix what Twitter broke? PLUS: your thoughts on 'Mark in the Middle'
In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. This seemed obviously bad, but at the time the company had no guidelines about how users should behave on the site. Moderation duties were left to the two co-founders, then the company’s only employees, and it’s fair to say that enforcement was not their full-time focus. When I wrote about the situation at Clubhouse, responses were divided. Some readers said that because
Kevin Systrom probably won’t take over TikTok, but it’s fun to dream
Instagram’s former CEO reportedly held preliminary talks to become TikTok’s CEO