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Seth Rogen calls out Twitter’s Jack Dorsey for the platform’s white supremacist problem

sudshr47 July 3, 2018

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Seth Rogen is sick and tired of how Twitter has been dealing with the racists and white supremacists who plague the platform.

The actor called out Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday in a public tweet.

I’ve been DMing with @jack about his bizarre need to verify white supremacists on his platform for the last 8 months or so, and after all the exchanges, I’ve reached a conclusion: the dude simply does not seem to give a fuck.

— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) July 3, 2018

Rogen says he’s been privately messaging Jack via Twitter for months, trying to figure out what the company has in mind when it verifies white supremacists on its platform. Read more…

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Kim Kardashian could be our best hope for getting a Twitter edit function

sudshr47 June 13, 2018

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Two weeks after meeting Trump to discuss prison reform, Kim Kardashian West is back fighting the good fight, this time trying to fix Twitter.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Kardashian said she had a “very good convo” with CEO Jack Dorsey about the oft-requested feature at Kanye West’s birthday on the weekend.

“I think he really heard me out on the edit button,” she wrote.

I had a very good convo with @jack this weekend at Kanye’s bday and I think he really heard me out on the edit button.

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 13, 2018 Read more…

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Jack Dorsey faces backlash after tweet about Chick-fil-A during Pride Month

sudshr47 June 11, 2018

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Even when Twitter isn’t in the spotlight for, say, Russian trolls or rampant abuse, they just can’t stay out of a mess.

This time, it was the man in charge, CEO Jack Dorsey, who caused a kerfuffle by sharing a tweet about receiving a “Boost” from fast food joint Chick-fil-A while using his Cash app to purchase food at the restaurant. 

Boost ⁦@ChickfilA⁩ pic.twitter.com/W03oKeGgGT

— jack (@jack) June 10, 2018

But here’s the thing: Dorsey was giving a big shout-out to a fast food company that’s now as well-known its anti-same-sex marriage stances as it is for  its food. And it also happens to be, well, Pride Month.  Read more…

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Twitter users outraged to learn David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire,’ has reportedly been banned

sudshr47 June 9, 2018

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David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire, Generation Kill, Treme, The Corner, and more, was reportedly banned from posting on Twitter after wishing death on several users in politically charged tweets.

On Friday, following the death of famous celebrity chef, and Simon’s close friend, Anthony Bourdain, the television writer shared a short tribute, along with news of his Twitter ban, on his personal website.

“I have been banned from Twitter, and as I am at this moment indifferent to removing the tweets they insist are violative of their rules, it is unclear when I will return to that framework,” Simon wrote. “So I’m hoping that if I post anything remotely meaningful about Tony, others will do me the favor of linking it beyond this digital cul de sac.” Read more…

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Jack Dorsey graces NYC’s Blockchain Week to talk up magic internet money

sudshr47 May 16, 2018

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Jack Dorsey loves magic internet money. 

This was made explicitly clear on the third and final day of Consensus, an annual blockchain conference in Midtown Manhattan, when the Twitter and Square CEO told a gathered crowd that one day soon the internet is going to have its own unique form of money — and that he’s totally here for it. 

“The internet deserves a native currency; it will have a native currency,” he explained while being interviewed on stage by Elizabeth Stark of Lightning Labs. “I don’t know if it will be Bitcoin or not. I hope it will be. I am a huge fan.” Read more…

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Twitter’s new troll filtering might actually prevent more abuse than any ban

sudshr47 May 15, 2018

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Twitter has put its trolls on notice.

On Tuesday, Twitter released promising preliminary results from a test of its new proactive troll filtering tactic. It wanted to see if filtering (but not deleting) content from accounts that exhibited “trolling behavior” could make Twitter more of a platform for conversation and sharing, less an adversarial cesspool. 

Today we are introducing new behavior-based signals into how Tweets are organized and presented in areas like conversations and search

This is to improve the health of the conversation and improve everyone’s Twitter experience.

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) May 15, 2018 Read more…

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Square is acquiring website builder Weebly for $365M

sudshr47 April 26, 2018

Square just announced that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Weebly for $365 million in cash and stock. While Square is best known for its payment software and hardware, it’s also been expanding into other areas, for example with the acquisition of food delivery service Caviar and corporate catering startup Zesty. Weebly, meanwhile, offers easy-to-use […]

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion dollar startup

sudshr47 April 12, 2018

The city of Glendale, Calif. seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team […]

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Jack Dorsey believes bitcoin will be the world’s sole currency within 10 years

sudshr47 March 21, 2018

We knew Jack Dorsey was bullish on bitcoin, but some new quotes reveal that he’s really, really bullish. In an interview with The Times of London, the Twitter and Square chief executive expressed a strong belief in bitcoin’s shot at outliving its growing pains in order to grow into a ubiquitous digital currency. “The world ultimately […]

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Lightning Labs just raised millions from Jack Dorsey and others to supercharge blockchain transactions

sudshr47 March 15, 2018

Lightning Labs, a young, Bay Area-based startup, is trying to make it easier for users to send bitcoin and litecoin to each other without the costly and time consuming process of settling their transactions on the blockchain. It has investors excited about its work, too. The company is announcing today that it has raised $2.5 […]

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Jack Dorsey’s verifications-for-all plan is bad news for Twitter

sudshr47 March 12, 2018

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If there’s one thing unambiguously good about Twitter it’s that it’s not Facebook — a fact that CEO Jack Dorsey seems hell-bent on changing. 

The latest assault on the very DNA of the social media platform is insidious in its seemingly good intentions: making verifications open to all.

The proposal, discussed by Dorsey on Thursday, is to make the verification process streamlined and automated, thus allowing the hordes of presently unverified users easy access to Twitter’s coveted blue check mark. 

“The intention is to open verification to everyone,” Dorsey explained over Periscope. “And to do it in a way that’s scalable, where we’re not in the way and people can verify more facts about themselves, and we don’t have to be the judge or imply any bias on our part.”  Read more…

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