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Elon Musk's pay-deal vote is the ultimate 'meme stock' test for Tesla, investor says
The vote on the Tesla CEO's comp package will be an indicator of how central he is to Tesla's ongoi…
Filip De Mott
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Early Facebook investor Roger McNamee wrote a pressing letter to Joe Biden urging him not to trust Silicon Valley on tech policy
Roger McNamee said that "today's leaders of Silicon Valley are part of the problem, not the solutio…
Katie Canales
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Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor has invested in privacy app Jumbo, which helps you mass delete old social media posts
Jumbo has rolled out a major update to its app to accompany the round, adding paid subscriptions as…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Why one economist says Elon Musk has turned Tesla into a meme stock
"From the standpoint of Wall Street speculators, it is a bouncing ball in a roulette wheel: a tech-…
Filip De Mott
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Stock market today: S&P 500 hits 4-day losing streak as tech stocks weigh down market
The S&P 500 notched its fourth-straight day of losses as Nvidia, Meta, and other tech names slumped.
Jennifer Sor
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A Silicon Valley investor says Elon Musk's move to abruptly suspend journalists on Twitter is 'a direct attack' by the CEO 'on journalism'
"What Elon Musk really wants is a soap opera in which he is the star and the only actor that matter…
Taylor Ardrey
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Investor calls for criminal charges and prison for Facebook execs as tech world enters open revolt against social media
Attacks on Facebook and Google dominated the 2021 iteration of Web Summit. How can the tech world d…
Jim Edwards
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Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor: Facebook's 'surveillance capitalism' business model is toxic for democracy
"As networks of people replace traditional hierarchies and reshape many institutions in our society…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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Facebook had another normal week in which it was called a 'chaos factory' and maker of 'data voodoo dolls' by big Silicon Valley beasts
Zuckerberg himself could be personally implicated after the FTC secured internal emails that appear…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel Asher Hamilton
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10 things in tech you need to know today
The US has blacklisted NSO Group, Allbirds went public, and Nike is headed to the metaverse: 10 thi…
Jordan Parker Erb
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Sheryl Sandberg says the US Capitol siege was not primarily organized on Facebook, but acknowledges Facebook moderation not perfect
"I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hat…
Allana Akhtar
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Tech experts and public figures are blaming Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube for the siege of the US Capitol
Social media companies have taken steps to temporarily ban Trump and put limits on his accounts.
Mary Meisenzahl
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Facebook is as bad for your health as smoking, say tech experts, who think the cure is breaking up the social network
"We believe there are huge issues around addiction, attention, and distraction caused by social med…
Jake Kanter,Jake Kanter
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Mark Zuckerberg's former mentor has spent a week attacking Facebook for becoming 'toxic'
According to McNamee's version of events, he received a call from Facebook's then-chief privacy off…
Shona Ghosh
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There's a basic problem with calling Facebook and Twitter 'platforms' - and it took Trump for us to see it
Referring to these tech companies as platforms, rather than media publishers, falsely acknowledges …
Adam Lashinsky
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Early Facebook investor said his first awkward meeting with Mark Zuckerberg was 'unlike any I've ever been in'
Roger: So... I described this in some detail in the book because it was a meeting unlike any I've e…
Abby Narishkin,Kif Leswing
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Quartz's new app is banking on big names like Richard Branson to help create a 'constructive and civil' alternative to Facebook and Twitter
Similar to the "Quartz Daily Brief" email newsletter, journalists curate news in the app from a ran…
Lauren Johnson
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10 things in tech you need to know today
10 things in tech you need to know today.
Shona Ghosh
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An early investor in Facebook and Google has slammed them for 'aggressive brain hacking'
... the big Internet companies know more about you than you know about yourself, which gives them h…
Julie Bort
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Here's are the odds of different possible outcomes in the Mueller investigation, according to online betting sites
PredictIt gamblers buy shares of a given bet, the value of which corresponds to the likelihood of a…