Internal Emails Show Twitter Struggled To Interpret Its Own Verification Rules While Hunting Trolls
Emails suggest that verification was never quite what Twitter said it was and that the company was aware it served as a tacit endorsement long before it admitted so publicly.
YouTubers Made Hundreds Of Thousands Off Of Bizarre And Disturbing Child Content
According to estimates, accounts shut down for potential child endangerment content could’ve been netting over $500,000 a month.
Here's What YouTube Is Doing To Stop Its Child Exploitation Problem
The company plans to have over 10,000 content moderators on staff by the end of 2018, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said.
YouTube Is Disabling Predatory Comments — But Leaving Up The Predators' Accounts
After BuzzFeed News contacted the company, a number of the accounts were disabled.
This Is The Man Who Deactivated The President’s Twitter Account
Bahtiyar Duysak, a former California State University student, is the person who briefly silenced Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account in early November.
Trump's Race-Baiting Tweets Are Candy For His Base
"He’s got his finger on the pulse of American voters."
YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results
Dozens of users have reported that a YouTube search for "how to have" is autocompleting with pedophiliac phrases. But some suspect it could be part of a larger coordinated trolling effort.
The New York Times Can't Figure Out Where Nazis Come From In 2017. Pepe Has An Answer.
The Times' favorite shitposter says he wasn't radicalized on the internet. But that's where his movement has been revived.
YouTube Has A Massive Child Exploitation Problem
After BuzzFeed News provided YouTube with dozens of examples of videos — with millions of views — that depict children in disturbing and abusive situations, the company is cracking down.
Big Tech Cannot Stop Shooting Itself In The Foot
Trust, arguably more than ever, is Silicon Valley’s most coveted feature now. And blunders coming from tech’s biggest companies now feel more unsettling.
Twitter Pauses Verifications Amid Controversy Over Charlottesville Organizer
"We realized some time ago the system is broken and needs to be reconsidered," said CEO Jack Dorsey.
Now You Can Send 280-Character Tweets
Twitter tested extending its 140-character limit in September, and now it wants to assure users that during that test, "the brevity of Twitter remained."
Texas Residents Describe Shock And Horror Of Church Massacre
The small community of Sutherland Springs struggles to come to terms with being the latest scene of a mass shooting in which dozens were killed, this time inside a church.
Here's Everything We Know So Far About The Texas Church Shooter
Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, was court-martialed for assaulting his spouse and their child in 2012. He received a bad-conduct discharge, a year of confinement in military prison, and was reduced to the Air Force's lowest rank.
A Twitter Employee Shut Down Trump's Account On Their Last Day Of Work
The president's personal account was abruptly taken offline for 11 minutes Thursday. Twitter says a customer support employee deactivated the account.
Inside The Great Poop Emoji Feud
Unicode, the organization that oversees the evolution of emojis, is in the middle of a fierce debate over a frowning pile of poop.
The Big Tech Companies Can’t Stop The Bleeding In Washington
Silicon Valley came to DC to contain its Russian ad crisis. But its march on Washington proved that companies like Facebook and Google still don't know how to talk about their power without making people uneasy.
Two Senators Just Requested An Investigation Into Whitefish Energy's $300 Million Puerto Rico Contract
Sens. Maria Cantwell and Ron Wyden are asking the Government Accountability Office to look into "the opaque and limited nature of PREPA's [Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority] bidding process that led to the contract."
How A Two-Person Montana Company Ended Up With The Biggest Energy Contract In Puerto Rico
With ties to the Interior Department secretary and a Trump donor, is it a swampy deal — or innovation at work?
New Charts Show What The Russian Troll @TEN_GOP Account Was Tweeting This Summer
The Kremlin-backed @TEN_GOP account pushed hashtags for divisive events, including the Charlottesville "Unite The Right" rally, according to a new analysis of Twitter data.