🎙 Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself

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Reinvention and Nostalgia: The Project to Remake Twitter. The company is undertaking a far-reaching effort to change how it works. For some, it is an echo of their early idealism and a vision for what the internet could have been. (Kate Conger / The New York Times)

o...k @kateconger

I wrote about Twitter's push to decentralize the company, the motivations guiding it, and the challenges it faces.

nytimes.comTwitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the NewThe company is undertaking a far-reaching effort to change how it works. For some, it is an echo of their early idealism and a vision for what the internet could have been.

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TikTok Faces Scrutiny in State Attorneys General Probe of Online Harms to Children. State prosecutors add video-sharing platform to their investigation into social media’s psychological effects on young users. (John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal)

JamesVGrimaldi @JamesVGrimaldi

State attorneys general are launching a probe into whether TikTok harms children. A ⁦@WSJ⁩ investigation last year found that Tik­Tok can drive users into rab­bit holes of harm­ful content about depression, sexual and drug abuse and eating disorders

wsj.comTikTok Faces Scrutiny in State Attorneys General Probe of Online Harms to ChildrenA bipartisan coalition of eight attorneys general is expanding the list of targets in an investigation unveiled last November into Instagram, which focuses on similar concerns.

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Trump is blowing Truth Social's launch. Former President Trump is blowing the launch of his new social media company, via a series of unforced errors. (Dan Primack / Axios)

Jay Yarow @jyarow

"Trump hasn't posted a single time since the launch, despite an international crisis that has captivated the country.”

axios.comTrump is blowing Truth Social’s launchThe SPAC that agreed to take Truth Social public is valued at over $3.5 billion. Investors will begin paying attention at some point.

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Epic Games is acquiring music platform Bandcamp. The companies announced the news, saying that Bandcamp would “keep operating as a standalone marketplace and music community” but use Epic's resources to expand internationally and continue adding new features. (Adi Robertson / The Verge)

Lido Pimienta @LidoPimienta

I got the email and I thought it was spam…what does this mean? I LOVE @Bandcamp 😭

The Verge @verge

Epic Games is acquiring music platform Bandcamp https://t.co/OK0S7xAvco https://t.co/DnuCuB6YLT

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Amazon is shutting 68 retail stores, ending Amazon Books, 4-star and Pop Up shops. Over the years, the e-commerce giant has launched an array of brick-and-mortar concepts, but sales growth has noticeably lagged the company’s overall retail business. (Annie Palmer / CNBC)

Annie Palmer @annierpalmer

Amazon's hitting the brakes on a few of its experimental retail concepts. It plans to close all 4-star, pop up and bookstores in the U.S. and U.K.

cnbc.comAmazon is shutting 68 retail stores, ending Amazon Books, 4-star and Pop Up shopsThe closures include 68 stores across the U.S. and U.K., Amazon said.

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Home Office-backed campaign against encryption targets Facebook investors. The UK government plans to target Facebook's largest investors, Vanguard Group and BlackRock, through a child safety campaign to stop the social media giant from encrypting its messaging platforms. (Madhumita Murgia in London / Financial Times)

Martin SFP Bryant @MartinSFP

They really aren't giving up with this nonsense. "The UK government plans to target Facebook’s largest investors, Vanguard Group and BlackRock, through a child safety campaign to stop the social media giant from encrypting its messaging platforms."

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Google tells employees in Bay Area and other U.S. locations to return to offices in April. Google told employees on Wednesday that it expects them to begin returning to physical offices April 4. The company said most workers should plan to return three days a week. (Jennifer Elias / CNBC)

Jennifer Elias @jenn_elias

New: Google has given employees a new return-to-office date: April 4th. That’s when the new “hybrid” work schedules begin and most employees will be expected in physical offices at least three days a week.

cnb.cxGoogle tells employees in Bay Area and other U.S. locations to return to offices in AprilGoogle’s latest office guidance comes more than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic

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