🤔 Twitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen Journalists

Plus: Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets, A.I. Will Change Education. Don't Let It Worsen Inequality, and more…

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Twitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen Journalists. SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended the accounts of roughly half a dozen journalists on Thursday, the latest change by the social media service under its new owner, Elon Musk. The accounts suspended included Ryan Mac of The New York Times;… (Mike Isaac / The New York Times)

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The New York Times @nytimes

The moves came a day after Twitter suspended more than 25 accounts that tracked the planes of government agencies, billionaires and high-profile individuals, including that of Musk.

nyti.msTwitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen JournalistsThe social media service, which is owned by Elon Musk, said that it suspends accounts that “violate the Twitter rules” but did not provide details.

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Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets. “They can't deliver. They don't have enough inventory to deliver. So they're literally giving the money back,” said one of the agency executives. Netflix structured its initial ad deals on a “pay on delivery” basis, in… (Tim Peterson / Digiday)

Digiday @Digiday

Netflix is falling short of ad-supported viewership guarantees made to advertisers and allowing advertisers to take their money back for ads that have yet to run, according to five agency executives. Story by @petersontee.

buff.lyNetflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targetsWhile some advertisers are reclaiming their ad dollars, others are keeping their money with Netflix and shifting budgets to 2023.

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Opinion | A.I. Will Change Education. Don't Let It Worsen Inequality. Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worried that the use of text would threaten traditional memory-based arts of rhetoric. In his “Dialogues,” arguing through the voice of Thamus, the Egyptian king of the gods, Plato claimed… (Zeynep Tufekci / The New York Times)

zeynep tufekci @zeynep

ChatGPT—and AI tools—are here. For education, rather than a futile, harmful battle through punitive surveillance and plagiarism detection, we should pour resources into a transformed education system. We faced this problem since the alphabet. Ask Plato. nytimes.com/2022/12/15/opi…

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In New York Neighborhood, Police and Tech Company Flout Privacy Policy, Advocates Say. ShotSpotter says it doesn't share the location of its gunshot detection sensors with police. NYPD said it doesn't use the technology to listen to private conversations. It was sold as a way to improve police response and catch incidents not… (Fola Akinnibi / Bloomberg)

fola akinnibi @FolaAk

emails between nypd officers and shotspotter show the company and the police working closely together to place its gunshot detection microphones in a manhattan neighborhood -- a potential violation of their policies bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/@sarahsholder via @CityLab

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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We're witnessing the brain death of Twitter. Musk's enthusiasm for eliminating jobs, cutting costs, and undoing Twitter's safety infrastructure has caused advertisers to leave in droves. At one point, the company reportedly lost the business of half its top 100 advertising clients, and it has… (Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review)

MIT Technology Review @techreview

Many users have watched Twitter’s vital organs slowly shut down and wondered how to respond. Do you stay and fight for its life? Or is it time to go?

trib.alWe’re witnessing the brain death of TwitterAn analysis of Musk’s tweets shows him at the center of conversations once kept on the fringes of Twitter.

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