Where power, privacy, and platform politics collide on a global digital stage.
TikTok appears to be automatically banning people with dwarfism because it thinks they’re underage
One user thinks TikTok might have rolled out a new AI filtering tool.
On Feb 6, 2024 by Marlon Ettinger
Meta warns investors Mark Zuckerberg could accidentally kill himself—notes ‘high-risk’ hobbies could have ‘adverse impact’ on the company
Meta notes its CEO’s martial arts habit may cause him serious harm.
On Feb 5, 2024 by Katherine Huggins
‘Again, I’m Singaporean!’: Tom Cotton grills TikTok CEO over membership in Chinese Communist Party—despite not being from China
Chew, who is Singaporean, is ineligible for membership in the Chinese Communist Party.
On Jan 31, 2024 by Marlon Ettinger
‘I’m sorry for everything’: Senator pushes Zuckerberg to apologize to victims’ families for Facebook’s role in child exploitation
Zuckerberg was prompted by Josh Hawley.
On Jan 31, 2024 by Tricia Crimmins
After forcing him to buy Twitter, voiding $56 billion Tesla payout, Musk is done with the state of Delaware
Delaware keeps handing Musk Ls.
On Jan 31, 2024 by Katherine Huggins
‘Sci-Fi Horror’: No one is pleased at Musk’s announcement he put a Neuralink chip in a human
‘Reminder that the majority of all documented primate subjects of Neuralink trials died in agony.’
On Jan 30, 2024 by Mikael Thalen
Should you be worried your data is in the ‘Mother of all Breaches?’
It turns out that much of the 26 billion records were scraped from other publicly known data breaches.
On Jan 24, 2024 by Mikael Thalen
‘It’s a bit of a facade’: MrBeast skeptical of big payout after Elon Musk prompted him to share videos directly to X
Posters speculated MrBeast was getting inflated payout to draw other creators to the platform.
On Jan 22, 2024 by Marlon Ettinger
X reinstates prominent left-leaning journalists, posters after outcry
‘I haven’t received any communications from Twitter/X about why I have been suspended.’
On Jan 9, 2024 by Mikael Thalen
EpsteinGPT—built to parse new unredacted documents—earns creator warning from OpenAI
The custom AI produced lists of names from the court documents.
On Jan 4, 2024 by Marlon Ettinger
‘Are you on it?’ Artists realize their works were included in AI data sets after filing in suit against Midjourney goes viral
Artists online are discussing whether they should join a lawsuit alleging massive amounts of copyright violations
On Jan 3, 2024 by Marlon Ettinger
Meta’s chief AI scientist slammed for saying authors should give books away for free—while selling his on Amazon for $20
The hypocrisy was swiftly noted.
WhatsApp’s 100 billion daily messages in India are all under the BJP’s watchful eye
The Indian government wants total access to WhatsApp.
On Nov 16, 2023 by Divya Chirayath
‘The podcast Facebook doesn’t want you to hear’: Facebook blocks people from sharing podcasts discussing Israel-Palestine war
The filter only lifted when the podcaster changed the keywords in the description
On Oct 20, 2023 by Marlon Ettinger
Why BookTok is freaking out over Google Docs
Google says the fears are unfounded.
On Aug 24, 2023 by Ernie Piper
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