Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those of us as terminally online as I am, let me … Read More
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Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point
Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after another, people have signed up for … Read More
Twitter says it will no longer allow ‘free promotion’ of other social media platforms
Twitter said it will no longer allow users to promote other social media accounts on its platform, according to a thread of tweets the company shared Sunday. “We recognize that … Read More
No One on Twitter Is Safe From Elon Musk
Musk changed his tune this week after he alleged a “crazy stalker” followed a car carrying his young son. Questions about the incident remain, and it’s not clear how an … Read More
Twitter to relaunch subscription service Twitter Blue Monday
The Twitter Inc. logo is seen behind a phone displaying the company’s mobile application. The blue badge with white tick is the sign that an account is verified. Michael Nagle … Read More
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room at a meeting of Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent body the … Read More
The Twitter Files Revealed One Thing: Elon Musk Is Trapped
Moderating social media platforms is hard. Just ask the former Twitter employees whose decision to block a 2020 New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter was picked over yesterday in tweets from … Read More
Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend, reversing a ban imposed in January 2021 after his posts were deemed to have incited violence at the US Capitol. Trump has not … Read More
Elon Musk Embraces Twitter’s Radical Fact-Checking Experiment
Unlike Polis, Twitter’s project has to find consensus not for one question at a time but for any conceivable controversy on the platform. Community Notes does that by estimating the … Read More
Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits
Ultimately, the issue came up in a March 2022 meeting with Clegg, who seemed taken aback by the board members’ frustration. He promised to break the logjam, and a few … Read More