“Axel Neff, who helped start Telegram, said the company’s core team of about 60 employees, 30 of whom are engineers, is too small to monitor the platform for criminal conduct. ‘Think about the size of Telegram. There are about a billion users on Telegram every month. A billion!’ he said. ‘Telegram is a massive, massive community. … They are not staffed — and they do not have the capacity — to monitor everything that goes on there.'”

“Blocking X in Brazil is like dropping a nuclear bomb on stan Twitter and the shutdown is already sending shockwaves through the entertainment and pop culture universe. With over 21 million monthly users, Brazil is one of X’s dominant markets, not only measured by sheer usage, but also cultural impact. Some staffers at music labels and entertainment PR agencies said they were scrambling on Friday night to assess the impact the ban might have on their talents’ fandoms.”

“USA Today was the domain most likely to appear in Google’s Top Stories box in the first half of 2024, according to data shared with Press Gazette for Google searches across the web.”

“Lots of people know how to describe clothes…Far fewer people know how to describe the way clothes get to our closets.”

“Nearly a decade after ‘Hot Ones’ made its debut on YouTube, the show that spiced up the celebrity interview wants the clout, deals and awards that TV shows command. As YouTube creators’ audience grows, they want to earn the kind of money and prestige enjoyed by traditional television stars. They’re using strategies that also resemble traditional TV — chasing Emmy awards and trying to drive up ad rates.”

“‘The redefining and returning to the roots of the radical Black press was very important to us,’ Sorrell said. ‘And also, I would say, viewing ourselves as a community organization as opposed to a news outlet.'”

“With the entire tech industry shifting its attention to these products, it may be time to pay more attention to the persuasive form of AI outputs, and not just their content… ‘The model hallucination doesn’t end’ with a given AI tool, Pat Pataranutaporn, who researches human-AI interaction at MIT, told me. ‘It continues, and can make us hallucinate as well.’ Pataranutaporn and his fellow researchers recently sought to understand how chatbots could manipulate our understanding of the world by, in effect, implanting false memories.”

“Channel blackouts have become more common in the streaming era. TV distributors argue they’re paying too much for content that fewer people watch, while networks argue the cost of live programming, especially sports rights, is increasing.”

“I know a lot of reporters who long ago made the shrewd decision to delete all of their old posts to protect themselves. I would never judge anyone for doing that. But a large part of my project as a journalist is to meet people where they live in gray areas and to run toward complication and nuance, and to understand context as it is or as it was, and I see an effort to conceal jokes I made in the context of the internet of five or 10 or 15 years ago as a kind of dishonesty that I am not comfortable engaging in.”

“Experts believe the showdown between Musk and Brazil’s supreme court will escalate before it cools. If Starlink follows through on its reported vow to ignore the X ban, it is likely to face similar sanctions itself for ignoring a supreme court order.”

“The harassment began after New Hampshire Public Radio published a story in March 2022 that detailed allegations of sexual misconduct against Eric Spofford, who had owned the state’s largest network of drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers.”