The Coronavirus Crisis
Covid Disinformation Doctor Wants to Help Elon Musk Do Medical Fact-Checks on Twitter
Convicted U.S. Capitol insurrectionist Simone Gold offered her vaccine disinformation group America’s Frontline Doctors for the job.
Technology
How Elon Musk Says He Catches Leakers at His Companies
Musk has boasted of entrapping a Tesla leaker by watermarking emails, and he is threatening any dissidents still at Twitter.
New Twitter Rules Are a Major Privacy Win (for Elon Musk’s Jet)
Confusion reigned as Twitter’s capricious billionaire owner seemed to make company policy on the fly.
Voices
The Internet’s New Favorite AI Proposes Torturing Iranians and Surveilling Mosques
ChatGPT, the latest novelty from OpenAI, replicates the ugliest war on terror-style racism.
Google and Meta Embrace Full-Court Strategy Against Media Ad Revenue Sharing Proposal
The lobbying blitz against the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act comes as lawmakers weigh attaching the bill to must-pass legislation.
CIA Venture Capital Arm Partners With Ex-Googler’s Startup to “Safeguard the Internet”
Trust Lab, founded by a former Google exec for content moderation, will identify “online harmful content, including toxicity and misinformation.”
Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk
Elon Musk appears to have outsourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform's right-wing extremists.
Twitter Allows Russian Officials to Share Antisemitic Cartoon of Zelenskyy
Elon Musk’s Twitter permitted a Russian Embassy account to post a cartoon that echoed Nazi propaganda in its depiction of Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Elon Musk’s “Free Speech” Twitter Is Still Censoring DDoSecrets
Twitter has censored the website of nonprofit transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets for more than two years.
Voices
Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky
Musk is impaled on the horns of a corporate dilemma described in radical critiques of the media.