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Tech
The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing
At the one-year anniversary of its launch, the Buy Nothing app had been downloaded 600,000 times, but only 91,000 people…
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Meta Verified Shows a Company Running Out of Ideas
Meta’s new subscription service looks pretty familiar. For between $11.99 and $14.99 a month, Instagram and Facebook users will get…
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The End of the Zoom Boom
Layoffs continue to hit the tech industry, and this week, they came for one of the pandemic’s biggest winners: Zoom.  Yesterday,…
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Meta’s Gruesome Content Broke Him. Now He Wants It to Pay
The case is a first from a content moderator outside the company’s home country. In May 2020, Meta (then Facebook)…
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Meta Eyes a Moderation Partner With ‘Traumatizing’ Working Conditions
Meta has cut ties with a subcontractor that provided moderators for its African markets, just weeks before the tech giant…
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Best Apps to Sell Stuff: Facebook Marketplace, eBay, More
Need some extra cash? When you’re low on funds, selling your stuff is one way to make money fast. We’re…
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A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room…
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The Reason for Meta’s Massive Layoffs? Ghosts in the Machine
Remember Libra, Meta’s ambitious plan to enter the cryptocurrency market? Or Lasso, Meta’s ambitious attempt to outdo TikTok? Alongside projects…
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Tech
Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits
Ultimately, the issue came up in a March 2022 meeting with Clegg, who seemed taken aback by the board members’…
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