Julia Carrie Wong
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Twitter lays out rules for world leaders amid pressure to rein in Trump
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 41h 1 tweets
Blogpost sheds new light on how tweets will be treated but is unlikely to satisfy those calling for Trump’s censorship
Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 3d 1 tweets
As pressure mounts on Facebook to explain its role in promoting anti-vaccine misinformation, Pinterest tries different approach
A Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein That Bill Gates Now ‘Regrets’
James B. Stewart - Nytimes.com 5d 38 tweets
Mr. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, met several times with Mr. Epstein, a sex criminal, a Times investigation found. Mr. Gates now concedes an error in judgment.
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Julia Carrie Wong Bill Gates’s emails to his colleagues are weird af 5d
Elizabeth Warren trolls Facebook with 'false' Zuckerberg ad
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 6d 3 tweets
Ad claims CEO backs Trump – then admits it’s not true – after company admits letting politicians make false statements
Facebook responds to the political challenges of the Trump era with moral cowardice
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 7d 6 tweets
Tech giant has insisted on protecting the president’s right to mislead the public and distort facts, writes Julia Carrie Wong
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Julia Carrie Wong I wrote about Facebook's decision to let politicians lie in advertisements – and what it reveals about the company's and Mark Zuckerberg's basic political programming – here 6d
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Julia Carrie Wong Once again for those who missed this: Facebook *did* censor Trump’s false Biden ads, for saying “son of a bitch” without bleeping it. Why does Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression privilege the right of a politician to lie but not to swear? 5d
Zuckerberg: I'll 'go to the mat and fight' Warren over plan to break up Facebook
Martin Pengelly - the Guardian 16d 3 tweets
Leaked recordings published by the Verge show Zuckerberg fears ‘existential threat’ if Democratic contender becomes president
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Julia Carrie Wong I wrote about Facebook's decision to let politicians lie in advertisements – and what it reveals about the company's and Mark Zuckerberg's basic political programming – here 6d
Germany shooting suspect livestreamed attempted attack on synagogue
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 7d 2 tweets
About 35 minutes was broadcast live on Twitch in latest instance of extremists using shootings to promote propaganda
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Julia Carrie Wong I know there is a lot going on but it is truly disconcerting how little attention is being paid in the US to an attempted Yom Kippur massacre at a German synagogue that followed the Christchurch killer’s social media playbook and left two dead 7d
US, UK and Australia urge Facebook to create backdoor access to encrypted messages
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 14d 2 tweets
Facebook says it opposes calls for backdoors that would ‘undermine the privacy and security of people everywhere’
Google reportedly targeted homeless people with 'dark skin' to improve AI
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 14d 2 tweets
Subcontracted workers were instructed to persuade subjects to agree to face scans, mischaracterizing them as a ‘selfie game’ or ‘survey’
Blocked sidewalks: how boulders became a flashpoint in San Francisco's homeless crisis
the Guardian 14d 1 tweets
In a city with a $12bn budget and tech millionaires, more than 8,000 people are forced to sleep on the streets each night
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Julia Carrie Wong You'll want to read on the boulders that have come to represent San Francisco's intractable homelessness crisis 14d
Trump claims Schiff 'helped write' whistleblower complaint – live
Julia Carrie Wong, Lauren Gambino, Oliver Laughland - the Guardian 15d 1 tweets
Trump makes speculative claim after report whistleblower approached House intelligence committee for advice on how to file complaint
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Julia Carrie Wong Facebook has taken down a number of Trump campaign ads that promote a false conspiracy theory about Biden and Ukraine. But the ads weren't taken down because they were misleading. They were taken down for containing a profanity. 15d
Google upended Pittsburgh – can the city's working class roots transform the tech industry?
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 25d 1 tweets
An attempt by contract workers to unionize has brought the city’s industrial past crashing into the 21st century
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Julia Carrie Wong A group of Google contractors in Pittsburgh will vote on whether to unionize with the United Steelworkers tomorrow. Far from Silicon Valley’s center of gravity, they are at the very center of urgent questions about the future of a tech-driven economy. 25d
The viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette seemed fun – until it called me a racist slur
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 30d 3 tweets
During a strange week for Asian Americans, the app – which is part of an art project – achieved its aim by underscoring exactly what’s wrong with artificial intelligence
How to Make Health-Care Crowdfunding Work for Everyone
WSJ 31d 4 tweets
Crowdfunding campaigns depend on having wealthy connections. But there are ways to make it more equitable.
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Julia Carrie Wong tfw you’re so close to getting it 31d
Facebook confirms 419m users’ phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapse
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 43d 2 tweets
The information was stored in an online server that was not password protected, according to a report from TechCrunch
Trump 'not worried' about lack of permanent Fema head amid hurricane season – live
the Guardian 48d 1 tweets
Florida is currently preparing for the potentially catastrophic arrival of Hurricane Dorian
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Julia Carrie Wong "Can you still subtweet if you deleted your Twitter account? If you’re New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, then the answer is yes." A blog post by , featuring reaction from himself. 48d
Pinterest makes aggressive new move in fight against vaccine misinformation
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 50d 17 tweets
Users who search for terms related to vaccines will be presented with information from major public health organizations
Document reveals how Facebook downplayed early Cambridge Analytica concerns
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 55d 3 tweets
Internal correspondence provides new insight into how Facebook staff reacted to concerns about use of user data by political campaign consultants
Document Holds the Potential for Confusion | Facebook Newsroom
Newsroom.fb.com 56d 2 tweets
We are agreeing with the District of Columbia Attorney General to jointly make public a September 2015 document in which Facebook employees discuss public data scraping.
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Julia Carrie Wong Here’s Facebook’s new statement. They are working hard to say that there’s nothing to see here because it was reported previously (by me). But the real issue is that Facebook obfuscated the timeline for more than a year when it could have just been honest. 55d
US justice department news briefing links to white nationalist website
Julia Carrie Wong - the Guardian 56d 3 tweets
Email sent to immigration judges links to virulently anti-immigrant site full of antisemitic references