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Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online
Social media companies took down the video with hours. But by then, it had already been viewed tens of millions of times.
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Sheera Frenkel
Here's the thing about that video of the doctors in white coats that went viral yesterday: it was perfectly tailored for spreading misinformation.
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Oxford coronavirus vaccine can train immune system
But more trials needed to prove this is enough to stop people being infected.
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Sheera Frenkel
Exactly the good news I wanted to wake up to. (Also, Id like to read 1000 words about the Oxford doctors behind this, especially Sarah Gilbert!) Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
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Twitter Struggles to Unpack a Hack Within Its Walls
Even some basic questions about how an array of Twitter’s most popular accounts were taken over remain unanswered.
‘He has screamed relentlessly’: Feral peacock divides Oakland neighborhood
Down a short cul-de-sac in North Oakland, an unusual blue-and-green-feathered neighbor has recently moved into someone's yard. His name is Bruce... or Paco, or Peter, or Pierre, or Abraham. Apparently, it's difficult to settle on a name for the...
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Sheera Frenkel
People wishing for this have clearly never dealt with a peacock living in their neighborhood. They are the assholes of the bird world. We had a peacock on our street in Jaffa and it would fly up to our balcony and shit on everything.
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Twitter Accounts for Biden, Gates, Musk and Others Are Breached
The accounts tweeted that they would double payments in bitcoin sent to a certain cryptocurrency wallet.
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Sheera Frenkel
Basically, we all got very lucky that whoever was behind the Twitter hack today was not a very good criminal. They had control of Twitter accounts for some of the world’s most powerful public figures, and used it to make... roughly $300,000?
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In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both.
Our struggle is not an emotional concern. We are not burned out. We are being crushed by an economy that has bafflingly declared working parents inessential.
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Sheera Frenkel
Let me say the quiet part loud: In the Covid-19 economy, you’re allowed only a kid or a job.
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A TikTok Twist on ‘PizzaGate’
Young people have tweaked the conspiracy, and today’s internet sites help spread such false ideas.
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Sheera Frenkel
Shira/Sheera's of the world unite to look at why the internet is so horrible and conspiracies never die
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Sign up for On Tech with Shira Ovide - The New York Times
Your guide to how technology is transforming our lives — in the time of coronavirus and beyond.
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Sheera Frenkel
Honestly, I look forward to @ShiraOvide’s newsletter every day. She has a way of framing current news in fresh and interesting ways and the art today is just <chef’s kiss>. Sign up, you won’t regret it!
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TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sunk Trump Rally
Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla.?
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Sheera Frenkel
TikTok teens and K-pop stans are declaring victory tonight for a prank to register fake tickets at Trump's Tulsa rally. Collab with @TaylorLorenz and @Kellen_Browning
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Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump’s Posts
In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on Mr. Trump’s messages, Mr. Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.”
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Sheera Frenkel
We will continue updating our story from the Q&A that Zuckerberg is doing with employees. He is standing firm on his position and employees are livid.
This is some of the strongest language we have ever heard from FB employees challenging Zuckerberg.
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Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts
While Twitter started labeling some of the president’s inflammatory posts, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone.
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Sheera Frenkel
Nothing like this has ever happened at Facebook. Employees always voiced dissent internally. Today's walkout is a sign that anger is spilling over, and that employees don't feel heard by Zuckerberg/Sandberg
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Sheera Frenkel
SCOOP with @MikeIsaac, Facebook employees are staging a walkout today for the first time in the company's history. They are protesting the decision by Zuckerberg to allow Trump's post to stand
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How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online
Conspiracy theories about the pandemic have gained more traction than mainstream online events. Here’s how.
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Sheera Frenkel
Did Plandemic - a conspiracy theory video about the Coronavirus that’s been widely debunked - really spread faster online than Taylor Swift’s new album or those UFO videos? We took a hard look at the numbers. With @BenDecker and @daveyalba
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Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’
For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
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Sheera Frenkel
Our look at how now, more than ever, Facebook is a Mark Zuckerberg production. With @MikeIsaac @ceciliakang
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Trump’s Disinfectant Talk Trips Up Sites’ Vows Against Misinformation
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have declined to remove the president’s statements about unproven coronavirus treatments.
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Sheera Frenkel
Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube started off the pandemic with an aggressive stance on misinformation. But when Trump suggested disinfectant and UV light as a cure, the platforms deferred and deflected as ppl spread dangerous “cures.” Story with @daveyalba.
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Facebook Restructures Its Security Teams
The social network displaced more than two dozen employees who work on security, as the company fights threats such as foreign meddling.
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Sheera Frenkel
Facebook’s security team has faced multiple restructuring over the last 2 years. Now, some more drama as some of the people responsible for finding and stopping hackers and looking for vulnerabilities are pushed out. Story with @MikeIsaac
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Zoom’s Biggest Rivals Are Coming for It
Facebook, Google and other behemoths are training their sights on Silicon Valley’s company of the moment.
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Sheera Frenkel
Facebook and Google have some serious Zoom-envy. Come for the inside scoop on how they are trying to compete, stay for the fun kicker at the end.
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My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
Forced to shutter Prune, I’ve been revisiting my original dreams for it — and wondering if there will still be a place for it in the New York of the future.
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Sheera Frenkel
I have no time for anything, and yet I’ve already read this essay twice today.
It’s about restaurants, but it’s not. It’s really about all of us, in the midst of this pandemic, and how to quiet the voices pressing us to answer what comes next.
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One: Wonderland
A young man finds escape on the internet. He doesn’t realize that on the other side of the screen, a force is pulling him in.
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Sheera Frenkel
With everyone under quarantine, I am finding myself living life online. What happens to our brains with that much internet? Luckily @kevinroose has a new podcast examining that question, and taking us to the most interesting, and broken, parts of the web.
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Facebook, Google and Twitter Struggle to Handle November’s Election
After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.
A Single Gesture Behind Trump Fuels an Online Conspiracy Theory
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, has become the target of claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.