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Airbnb’s billionaire co-founder embraced DOGE. Now hosts are quitting the site

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RIP mail

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How it’s going in DC: Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property. @peterelkind.bsky.social

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“I knew someone on AA5432.” That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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I have a piece on this week's show about the current campaign to rewrite the past, make the old new again, and bully those who document history online. Featuring @darakerr.bsky.social & @molly.wiki

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Wild to me that just four years ago RFK Jr was banned from Instagram for spreading anti-vaccine misinformation and now he's in charge of the nation's biggest health agency

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After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

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Just $10M? Meta paid $25M

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I looked at the first arrest figures published by the Trump administration and explained what it can and can't tell us about what is happening www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Lots of tidbits in here, including company rationale around why it's backtracking on its 2018 AI principles that stated Google would not build AI for harmful purposes --and-- how Google's "chief diversity officer" now has the title of "vice-president of Googler Engagement"

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BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

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We looked into the rise and fall of DEI at Meta. It was once the gold standard for diversity work in Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg went to Pride, banned Trump and founded an org for immigrants. Now, it’s all about “masculine energy.” With @jmbooyah.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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ICE using the SEO dark arts

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The logical endpoint of the tactics of the SEO industry www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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ICE has an evergreen content strategy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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NEW: Days after Trump's inauguration, ICE changed the timestamp on its archive of press releases to 1/24/2025--causing a flood of stories about mass arrests to shoot to the top of Google search An immigration atty said "it was creating terror in the community” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

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"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

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FCC chief Brendan Carr launches inquiry into NPR and PBS stations with an eye to help allies on Capitol hill unravel federal funding for public broadcasting My story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

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Google says it's renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America because it has "a longstanding practice of applying name changes" that "have been updated in official government sources." My question is what happens when Mexico and every other government keeps it Gulf of Mexico? How does Google decide?

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This thread!!!

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today's must read 👇

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If you Google "inauguration day," you're greeted with an animation of fireworks forming the shape of the American flag. Google has never done something like this for the inauguration, sources told me, out of fear of appearing partisan. But that's changed now, with Sergey and Sundar attending.

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I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise. Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble

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It’s important to note that even though TikTok is back online, it’s still not available for updates and downloads in Apple and Google’s app stores. And it’s unclear if Trump’s EO will fix this. If there are no app updates, it will degrade over time… (Oh, also, Markey voted for the ban)

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In essence, all of TikTok's service providers are daring a future US government to fine them hundreds of billions of dollars. With this action, tech firms now join banks as institutions that are apparently too big to fail. Or so they think. bsky.app/profile/phil...

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A 12ish-hour ban is more like a website outage

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TikTok issues a late-in-the-day statement, looking to force the hand of the Biden administration. If the administration doesn't comply, TikTok says, it "will be forced to go dark on January 19"

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"On behalf of everyone at TikTok and all our users across the country, I want to thank President Trump..."

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