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I've had more contact from Facebook in the last few hours trying to get me to change this headline about Sheryl Sandberg than I've had in the last 2 weeks of me contacting them over + over again for comment on the story itself. kind of speaks for itself. techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/de…
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the Proud Boys just made Trump's encouraging words for them -- uttered during a national televised debate -- into a graphic with their logo
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this story on millennial burnout is the only thing i’ve read that made me feel better not worse in as long as i can remember buzzfeednews.com/article/ann… (by @annehelen)
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s/o today to all the non-binary folks, trans guys and others who don't identify as women but have been struggling to stay above water this week. you are seen.
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New from @blakersdozen: Employees at Blizzard HQ walked out in defiance when their company banned a pro-Hong Kong Hearthstone champ.
The protest met at the giant orc statue, naturally. thedailybeast.com/blizzard-e…
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Under Twitter's aggressive new COVID-19 safety rules, you can't encourage people to go to bars or discourage them from social distancing in areas affected by the coronavirus techcrunch.com/2020/03/18/tw…
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for fucking real though why is a credible allegation of rape against the president of the United States not the top story everywhere
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if you're wondering what the Facebook Oversight Board's priorities are, their comms guy just called me to gaslight me into changing my headline today in which i noted the board was "controversial"
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this cool, portland-based project is a free collection of stock photos showing plus-size models doing things that thin models get depicted doing: hanging out, talking to friends, cooking, being cute and normal wweek.com/culture/2019/08/09…
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Facebook bans far-right men's group the Proud Boys from FB and Instagram. The company changed its mind, deciding that the group now violates its policy against hate groups/hate orgs techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/fa…
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Musk has owned Twitter for less than a week but he's already sent a clear message: The platform is about to get worse for queer people. techcrunch.com/2022/10/31/el…
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Jack Dorsey is reportedly a decision-averse slow thinker who "speaks in riddles" and is "like listening to a fortune-cookie talk" finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-…
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~~sᴏᴍᴇ ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟ ɴᴇᴡs~~
Very Excited to announce that next month I'm joining @thedailybeast as Senior Technology Editor.
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Having been misled or lied to numerous times over the years by FB comms gives journalists very little reason to believe them or reprint their statements at face value. I trust my sources more than Facebook and I think most reporters do.
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Oregon's relatively quiet fire season came to a horrible end in the last 24 hours. Historic wind storms + super dry conditions = our entire state is on fire. Never seen anything like this in a decade of living here.
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if you're a white person who still frames racism as some secret truth that people hide in their hearts waiting to be discovered instead of as a system of power expressed by actions and choices made every day, small and large, well, i have some bad news for you
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yes i own and shot it, no i dont support Sinclair-owned stations and don’t authorize you to use it. (other local stations/news outlets feel free to use my images with credit)
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fire at historic @timberlinelodge on Mt. Hood tonight, fire alarms went off maybe 20 minutes ago — roof is visibly burning and we all were just evacuated
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Bisexual Oregon Governor Kate Brown is gay tooooo
.@ABC News can project that Democratic Rep. Jared Polis has won the Colorado governors race
He will be the first openly gay governor in U.S. history
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wild how “maybe not getting appointed to the Supreme Court” is considered too harsh a punishment for attempted sexual assault
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to answer your pressing questions: yes, the monopoly man's monocle is wearing its own mustache
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i'm sorry but if your body armor doesn't protect you against a can of chickpeas then why wear it
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There's a way to do PR and comms ethically. Be as open as you can be! Act like a human person! The ignore + obfuscate strategy will backfire in the end and already has — the truth has a way of coming out.
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Goodwill is a two-way street. Some companies earn the benefit of the doubt in reporting because they are transparent, straightforward and responsive.
Taking Facebook at its word, no questions asked, often leads to poor or misleading reporting. It's unfortunate.
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the idea that if you make your company big enough fast enough you can't be held responsible for unexpected consequences is big tech's central existential lie
Lyft could argue that at the scale they’re operating at, it can’t check every anomalous ride. But that presumes that Lyft (and Uber, and Facebook, and Google, and Amazon) have some right to operate at scale with blatant disregard for the harm that scale brings
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Portland's Justice Center now on fire. It houses the county's sheriff’s office and detention center
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photo on the right is of an adopted child who was murdered when his two white parents drove him & his five black siblings off a cliff in 2018 after abusing them for years and forcing them to perform stunts like hugging the cop in this viral photo from a Portland Ferguson protest
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ok so is this proud boy wearing a police union hat or is this police officer wearing a proud boy hat?
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these little info boxes and labels designed to "counter" misinformation on Facebook/YouTube/Twitter are obviously designed to be unobtrusive in the UI... and that's a big problem!
These Trump Jr posts (on FB & Twitter) clearly argue that the election will be stolen & are clear calls for confrontation/intimidation at the polls & a rejection of mail in ballots. Just incredibly dangerous stuff. Do we really think these small labels are gonna do anything?
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The fact that their comms is obsessing over the optics of the Facebook Oversight Board's launch and is apparently deeply fragile about its perception is not a great sign of serious priorities, honestly.
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Timberline Lodge update: the building has some exterior roof damage but the inside looks shockingly good considering it was in flames last night!
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the Portland queer community is experiencing an uptick in targeted violence from far-right extremists. And no one trusts Portland Police Bureau to investigate or protect them (for both recent and historical reasons)
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"so that's like 8 straight cis men at our wedding??? we have a hard cap at 5" - me, gay bridezilla
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Kanye West posted anti-semitism on Instagram and got his account frozen. Elon Musk immediately gave him a green light to say the same stuff on Twitter, so he did and worse — but Musk doesn't own Twitter yet techcrunch.com/2022/10/09/ka…
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Sheryl Sandberg playing dumb "surprised all of us because we knew her denial wasn’t true,” a source familiar w/ Facebook's Definers work told TechCrunch. "She's pretty exposed right now... Definers knows where the bodies are buried." techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/de…
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Full statement from Telegram on new Nazi channel bans, which targeted "dozens" of groups over the past 24 hours.
These neo-Nazi + supremacist networks already have hundreds of backup channels already in place. techcrunch.com/2021/01/13/te…
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elon weighs in to confirm that he is taking anti-lgbtq hate and harassment very seriously 🙃
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P.S. read my story there is a lot of new stuff reported in there k thx techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/de…
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Exclusive: A collective of Black tech leaders is asking supporters in tech to sign to a pledge to end racial injustice in the Bay Area. The pledge has a ton of orgs to support and calls for specific actions around local policing, elections and hiring techcrunch.com/2020/06/03/bl…
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the first US pro sport to return kicks off with both teams kneeling in black lives matter shirts.
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better photos of the fire burning right now at Timberline Lodge, extremely windy tonight and embers are blowing everywhere
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i don't agree with throwing shit at cops but like... the differential in the protective gear and weaponry of police vs protesters is absurd
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Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf landed in Portland today and federal officers are attacking protesters in Portland streets. Trump is using the city as a staging ground for desperate reelection theatrics, judging by the lead story on Fox News today wweek.com/news/2020/07/16/or…
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how do tech PR people not get that being aggressive, dishonest and manipulative to reporters reflects poorly on the work their companies do? it's wild.
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my 12-year-old cousin died after overdosing on a fentanyl patch he was prescribed after getting his tonsils out. can't believe this shit is still happening thedailybeast.com/6-in-10-ch…
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Some Personal News:
This is my last week @TechCrunch! I'm not sure what's next, but I'm taking some time for myself to explore what's out there. Keep me in mind for interesting projects and other opportunities in the future🤠
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my mom is selling her house but stopped putting chemicals in the pool as her rapport with the turtle deepened
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I said that pretending Facebook's Oversight Board hasn't been surrounded by controversy was disingenuous and the PR guy countered with "here you are laughing at me again." As a female journalist, that was an insane and infuriating thing to hear from a male comms person.
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this is happening because FB struggles with content moderation at immense scale -- something you should really nail before operating a social network at immense scale
Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach tcrn.ch/2QfWv7a by @tayhatmaker
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there's a 100,000+ acre fire that's impossible to contain ripping toward Portland's suburbs
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New from me: Tech right-wing super donor Palmer Luckey mysteriously made two donations to @AOC's campaign for reelection. When the Ocasio-Cortez campaign found out, they immediately refunded the money. thedailybeast.com/palmer-luc…
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One of the most frustrating calls with PR I've ever had. When I laughed in disbelief at some of the ways he was twisting the argument, he pivoted to making it an attack on my professionalism and said "I've never had a journalist laugh in my face"
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New: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announces an exec order effective Tues, March 17 for at least 4 weeks:
-Statewide cancellation of all events >25 people
-Essential locations like groceries, pharmacies will be exempted
-Restaurant and bars restricted to carry out and delivery only
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half of the queers i know aren't women but their experiences of sexual assault and abuse are just as common as the stories of my friends who are
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this was my first mini-vacation from being a reporter but i’ll guess i’m reporting from here…. this is a terrible thing to watch for such a beloved place in our state
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will never recover from seeing megan thee stallion call “that big motherfucker” up on stage and then twerking on master chief @TwitchCon
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