Apple added a new feature in the iOS 15.2 iPhone update to give kids a warning before they send or open nude photos—and made a difficult decision to omit a feature that would have warned their parents.

Kara and Scott discuss Twitter’s new anti-harassment policy, Chris Cuomo’s indefinite suspension from CNN, and Stacey Abrams running for Governor in Georgia. Also, UK’s Competition Watchdog tells Meta to sell off GIPHY. CEOs and insiders have sold off a record number of stocks in 2021. Plus, Scott gives us some predictions on SpaceX and Twitter. Send us your Listener Mail questions, via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.

Pokimane even threatened to stop using Streamlabs.

The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.

It is Apple, not supply chain woes, that online advertising businesses seemed most concerned by going into the home stretch of 2021.

Firefox was also going to use a workaround until the block.

Some app developers say Apple is buying Google ads to cut App Store work-arounds off at the pass. Huawei thinks it has an end run around US sanctions. The audacious hacker that managed to send fake emails from the FBI’s own servers. The story behind the big Taproot update to Bitcoin. And the DAO of crypto enthusiasts looking to buy a copy of the US Constitution.

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Of all the contemporary internet’s innumerable hovels, few are as bewildering as Ted Kaczynski stan TikTok.

Companies speaking to reporters — especially tech companies, but they're by no means the only ones; media companies do it too — like to add information "on background." That means that the information they provide can be included in the story, but can't be attributed specifically to …

Facebook Doc Stories October 27, 2021 WaPo: In Poland’s politics, a ‘social civil war’ brewed as Facebook rewarded online anger WaPo: Former Facebook auditor says whistleblower’s claims have ‘revived’ civil rights concerns WSJ: Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures ​​ Forbes:...

Sean Illing talks with Joe Bernstein of BuzzFeed News about online disinformation and what — if anything — can be done about it. They discuss the role of tech giants in the spread of propaganda, why it's been impossible for researchers to agree on what disinformation even is, and how the nature of both mass media and democracy means that disinformation is here to stay. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox Guest: Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein), Senior Reporter, BuzzFeed News References:  "Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation" by Joseph Bernstein (Harper's; Sept. 2021) "Civil Society Must Be Defended: Misinformation, Moral Panics, and Wars of Restoration" by Jack Bratich (Communication, Culture & Critique 13 (3); Sept. 2020) "The Priest in Politics: Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Presidential Election of 1936" by Philip A. Grant Jr. (Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 101 (1); 1990) "Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers" b

Hindsight is the enemy of nostalgia. At 27, I'm probably at the absolutely lower limit of people who actually remember 9/11. To even say I "remember" it using the term loosely. I don't remember any…

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Billions are flowing into the music industry—and barely a cent is going toward the creation of new music.

Many years after her long career as America’s beloved morning-news anchor, she has decided to write a book focused on the messy parts. Why?

This is an ongoing public Google Doc collecting all the stories published surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” project. Shortlink: https://bit.ly/fbdocstories

Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.

The two companies have traded the title once again.

New factions in the GOP; when the NRA isn't enough; and a "No Compromise" strategy for all.

From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so-called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform has not formally launched yet, but it was made accessible ahead of time. Users were quick to note that the terms of service included a worrying passage, claiming that the site is proprietary property and all source code and software are owned or controlled by them or licensed to them:

Apple News will now offer its local news experience in Charlotte, Miami, and Washington, D.C.

Selling the story of disinformation

We watched 40+ hours of the streaming service to analyze Apple's product placement strategy Watch an Apple TV+ show and you’re likely to notice a lot of iPhones, iPads and other Apple products. We analyzed 74 episodes of the streaming service’s top shows, including “Ted Lasso,” and “The Morning Show,” to better understand the strategy behind all that product placement. Video: Kenny Wassus. Photo illustration: Alex Kuzoian for The Wall Street Journal More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http://www.wsj.com Visit the WSJ Video Center: https://wsj.com/video On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/wsj/videos/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJ On Snapchat: https://on.wsj.com/2ratjSM #WSJ #Apple #AppleTV+

This is a kind of superpower competition the world has never seen.

Cryptocurrency promises to liberate the monetary system from the clutches of the powerful. Instead, it mostly functions to make wealthy speculators even wealthier.

We are honored to hold over 100 issues of The Black Panther, instrument for social justice and vehicle for the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas.