ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy
John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford. Previously: @ProPublica, @19thnews, Matter, Elgg. Every day, I write about tech, democracy, and society at https://werd.io. More about […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://werd.social/@ben, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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@ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gyVanity Fair has an excerpt of @kateconger.bsky.social / @rmac.bsky.social's "Character Limit" book that includes one of the jaw dropping revelations in the book: That Elon came up $400 million short & demanded Twitter give him the cash. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...
Show PostI will do nothing on Threads except complain about how not open it is and troll journalists who think they are too good for Bluesky.
Show PostI get it. But I just think we’re not giving enough attention to the dagger FB put into journalism a decade ago with the pivot to video. They already showed us who they were.
Show Post“Private companies in which you agree to a terms of service are not censoring you and has nothing to do with free speech .” “Private companies are not and never will be ‘public town squares’.” Would love these printed on a shirt.
Show PostAll the recent books I read/listened to were twitter/elon related, but I heard about this book today on a podcast and was thinking ab getting it. Not sure if that will register in the “enjoy”bucket, but definitely (for me) the “interesting” bucket www.amazon.com/Money-Lies-G...
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