The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
[ad_1] I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier this year, worked for Twitter via the outsourcing company…
This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
[ad_1] August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon Musk’s argument on why he should no longer have…
Not All Bots Are Bad, and Twitter Knows It
[ad_1] But bots don’t even need to be useful. “I don’t think bots have to do something worthwhile,” says V Buckenham, founder of Cheap Bots, Done Quick!, a free tool…
Bogus Fears of Censorship Could Spell the End of Content Moderation
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Glad to hear from Joe Biden that the pandemic is over. But who’s going to tell the coronavirus? The Plain View The linguist George Lakoff is famous…
The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme
[ad_1] “My partner started talking a lot more about her mental health, and I was just becoming aware that my friends and myself had these things that were unspoken,” Colossal…
How to See Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter Posts Chronologically
[ad_1] Social media feeds are no longer set to chronological order as the default. Whether you’re doomscrolling through Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, the sequence of the posts is shuffled up…
The Twitter Whistleblower’s Testimony Has Senators Out for Blood
[ad_1] Many of Silicon Valley’s fiercest watchdogs on Capitol Hill are now snarling. Yesterday’s arresting testimony by Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, has lawmakers in both parties redoubling…
So, You Want Twitter to Stop Destroying Democracy
[ad_1] Politicians themselves, meanwhile, must assign Twitter its proper place in our constellation of online spaces. It is real life, but it is not a scientific poll. It represents a…
Twitter Finally Gets an Edit Button
[ad_1] Another issue naysayers are likely to have with Twitter’s edit feature as currently designed is that it initially hides the context of what was changed from other users. Twitter’s…
Twitter, Meta, and Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
[ad_1] Hi, folks. We won’t have Fauci to kick around much longer. But we’ll always have Covid. The Plain View In late 1969, Daniel Ellsberg made a brave and consequential…
The Most Damning Allegation in the Twitter Whistleblower’s Report
[ad_1] Zakto further alleges that Twitter has no comprehensive development or testing environments for piloting new features and system upgrades before launching them in the live production software. As a…
The Twitter Whistleblower Plays Right Into Elon Musk’s Hands
[ad_1] “If what Zatko alleges is true, Twitter has violated its users’ trust and deceived the Federal Trade Commission and its directors,” says Christopher Bouzy of Bot Sentinel, whose access…
How to Mute Retweets on Twitter
[ad_1] In 2012 people joked that Twitter was a place to talk about what you had for lunch. In 2022 the joke is that it’s a place to scroll when…
What Twitter’s Move to Shutter Offices Signals for Big Tech
[ad_1] Twitter executives can currently travel the world by globe-trotting among the company’s 38 offices, from San Francisco, Sydney, and Seoul to New Delhi, London, and Dublin. But not for…
Even Twitter Thinks Elon Musk’s Tweets Are Out of Control
[ad_1] Hi, folks. If inflation makes everything more expensive, why are stock prices falling? Asking for a 401(k). The Plain View In all the months since Elon Musk has been…
Twitter Has Entered the Elon Musk Twilight Zone
[ad_1] The other two outcomes, which are together much more likely, Ives says, would see Musk either buy Twitter for the agreed $44 billion, or walk away after reaching a…
Peloton Will Stop Making Its Own Bikes and Treadmills
[ad_1] Check out our guide on the best mirrorless cameras, and dive deep into all of WIRED’s camera coverage. The Unmentionables Twitter may be a nightmarish dumpster fire even when…