Biden administration officials are discussing whether the US should subject some of Elon Musk’s ventures to national security reviews, including the deal for Twitter Inc. and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network, according to people familiar with the matter.
Quite the intriguing scoop from Bloomberg on the security implications of the global reach of Elon Musk and is tendency to openly talk with autocrats. Even today he's exchanging tweets with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev having tweeted unhelpfully about Ukraine and Taiwan in ways that sounded very Putin and Xi-esque.
Nicole Gill is Co-founder and Executive Director and Jesse Lehrich is Co-founder and Senior Advisor at Accountable Tech. Since the news first broke that Elon Musk planned to acquire Twitter and take the social media giant private, tech experts have consistently sounded the alarm.
Background on the same subject with hefty detail on the implications. Musk has also complained -- with some justification I'd have thought -- that Biden has snubbed him, especially on electric car questions.
The impact of such layoffs would likely be felt immediately by millions of users and would put them at risk of hacks and exposure to offensive material such as child pornography, insiders said.
I wouldn't have thought Twitter is in fact over-staffed but Elon will at least know that it needs world-leading engineers to do what he wants. However, I also doubt it is realistic for him to believe he can create a Tencent/Alibaba-style "everything app".
About a quarter of Americans have ever paid for news directly. Those who have are more likely to make over $150,000 a year.
Not an immense surprise in this but it does show again that we may be facing some sort of "pivot-to-video" moment where people re-evaluate their subscriptions and start cutting back in alarming ways. By then publishers may not be able to get them back inside an ad-funded product.
TikTok, the new king of social media, has achieved the dream of every young platform: unavoidability. Now comes the nightmare. Lately it’s TikTok that’s drawn the scrutiny of the media, regulators, and users.
TikTok needs to start thinking harder about its profile and its relationship with the news media and behave more like Google has with years-long commitments to engage with publishers -- even if it does co-opt them.
I shall not be celebrating the centenary of the BBC. This is a surprise to me, as I used to think quite highly of bits of it, and I am old enough to remember when it was a fine thing. But year by year it has become less and less admirable, less and less fair, and more and more high-handed.
I don't agree with this but I did find some of it quite fascinating and maybe worth reflecting on Peter is really doing it to get a rise -- and managing it.
A union would represent an about-face for both companies, which told investors nearly a decade ago that they were better off apart.
Portrayed in some places as a new series of Succession it more or less is. I can only assume that he thinks that Lachlan can preside over it all.
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