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AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

Mickey Vernon

Some Medium writers and editors do applaud the platform’s approach to AI. Eric Pierce, who founded Medium’s largest pop culture ...

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP

Mickey Vernon

This week Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. For months, the ...

Telegram Faces a Reckoning in Europe. Other Founders Should Beware

Telegram Faces a Reckoning in Europe. Other Founders Should Beware

Mickey Vernon

“[Elon] Musk and fellow executives should be reminded of their criminal liability,” said Bruce Daisley, a former executive at Twitter ...

Pavel Durov’s Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance

Pavel Durov’s Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance

Mickey Vernon

“Civil society has had a complicated relationship with Telegram over the years,” says Natalia Krapiva, a lawyer at the digital ...

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Mickey Vernon

Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the ...