Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, was working remotely on a private island in French Polynesia frequented by celebrities escaping the paparazzi when a phone call interrupted him…
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Twitter and Facebook Barred Trump. China Is on His Side.
After Twitter and Facebook kicked President Trump off their platforms, and his supporters began comparing his social media muzzling to Chinese censorship, the president won support from an unexpected source:…
San Francisco's Tech Workers Are Leaving the Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers. Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San…
Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban
LONDON — In Sri Lanka[1] and Myanmar[2], Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India[3], activists have urged the company to combat posts by…
Donald Trump's Twitter: What Happened?
The labels did, however, provide insights into how those who run the platforms were thinking at the time. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, the platforms seemed to say, but the…
Twitter Removes Over 70,000 QAnon Accounts
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter on Monday said that it had removed more than 70,000 accounts that promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory in recent days, as the company widened its crackdown…
Who Should Make the Online Rules?
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] The tech companies had the right to block President Trump from their…
How Parler, a Chosen App of Trump Fans, Became a Test of Free Speech
Parler grew slowly until early 2020, when Twitter began labeling Mr. Trump’s tweets[1] as inaccurate and some of his supporters joined Parler in protest. After November’s election, Parler grew even…
Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how.
MIT Technology
Seeing reality clearly and truthfully is fundamental to our capacity to do anything. By monetizing and commodifying attention, we’ve sold away our ability to see problems and enact collective solutions.…
Twitter's Ban on Trump Shows Where Power Now Lies
It was a perfect match, and Mr. Trump soon began honing the freewheeling, stream-of-consciousness style that would become his signature. For years, he used the platform to weigh in on…
