🚨 Censorship, Online Fragmentation, and AI Innovations
Today’s pick
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse. We've all watched in horror as red states have banned books in schools and libraries. We've seen teachers fired merely for reading a book about gender identity, or for discussing their own families. By Charlie Jane via Happy Dancing.
There is a very bad internet bill out there that has bipartisan support. It’s called KOSA. Elizabeth Warren is a cosponsor.
It is being used as a regulatory trojan horse to punish sites that host LGBTQ voices on the internet.
Welcome to the Great Internet Splintering. I've become a social-media ghost over the past few years. I haven't posted on Instagram since December, I've gone from tweeting several times a day to a couple of times a week, and I haven't signed into Facebook or Snapchat in ages. By Shubham Agarwal via Insider
I don’t know where to post; there are too many social media platforms, and the old giants are dying. But a fragmented internet could be better. - Insider Tech (@TechInsider)
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Mira Murati, the young CTO of OpenAI, is building ChatGPT and shaping your future. Mere moments before Mira Murati, the chief technology officer of OpenAI, meets us at a conference room in the company's San Francisco headquarters, another executive exits the space: cofounder and CEO Sam Altman. By Kylie Robison and Michal Lev-ram via Fortune.
So excited to share with you all my first ever COVER STORY FOR @FortuneMagazine!!!! It was incredible to get to sit down with OpenAI CTO @miramurati alongside @mlevram 🌟 - Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes)
MyPillow lawyers say CEO Mike Lindell owes them millions of dollars. The attorneys defending Mike Lindell and his business against defamation claims from voting machine companies are seeking to sever ties with the 'MyPillow Guy' over millions of dollars in unpaid legal fees. Via NBC News
Mike Lindell tells @darehgregorian he’s broke. “We’ve lost everything, every dime... All of it is gone.” His lawyers say he owes them millions. - Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald)
News story or meme? After Elon Musk aXes headlines, it's hard to tell. The saga of how Elon Musk has undermined news on X (RIP Twitter) in the year since his chaotic evil takeover of the company is a long one. By Sophie Culpepper via Nieman Lab
This story is about whatever you want it to be about because you can’t see the headline! Choose your fighter
- Elon challenges Zuck to axe-throwing due
- X, formerly Twitter, changes its name to aXe
- Elon eliminates headlines from links to make X cuter
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