Top news of the week: 04.12.2022.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America
The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ and then backed out when confronted with the realities of building public ...
Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down
Future.com hasn't published an article in months, and most of its editorial staffers have quietly left.
Twitter’s Chinese “sex bots” may just be sex bots
Experts and news outlets alleged a wave of Chinese-language spam was state-sponsored, but evidence for the claim remains scant.
Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk
They're skeptical of their workers, too. PLUS: New details on Musk's 'general amnesty' for banned Twitter users
Elon Musk's 'amnesty' pledge brings back QAnon, far-right Twitter accounts
Data reviewed by NBC News shows that many restored accounts trafficked in conspiracy theories and hate speech. The changes come as some high-profile users have fled.
The E-Mail Newsletter for the Mogul Set
The media startup Puck is aiming to build a business by covering power and wealth from the inside.
INFORMED: Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age
INFORMED brings together key leaders and experts to engage around the biggest questions at the intersection of technology, media, and democracy. Presented by Knight Foundation, the ...
Exclusive: Twitter exec says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surges
Elon Musk's Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain ...