Emma Roth

News Writer

Emma RothNov 20, 2022

Twitter loses another executive as Donald Trump’s account gets restored.

Sarah Rosen, Twitter’s head of US content partnerships, announced her departure from the company shortly after Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s account on Saturday night.

According to Bloomberg, Robin Wheeler, Twitter’s ad sales chief, and Maggie Suniewick, the company’s partnerships leader, were both terminated on Friday after they refused to fire more employees. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, also resigned last week.

The US government still isn’t sure about Elon Musk’s Twitter

Emma RothNov 19, 2022

Twitter’s copyright strike system appears to be broken.

Naturally, one user took this as an opportunity to post the entire The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift movie in a series of two-minute clips spanning nearly 50 tweets.

The thread has been up for almost a whole day now, and the fact that it hasn’t been taken down yet is a likely side effect of the hundreds of employees who resigned from Twitter earlier this week.

Emma RothNov 19, 2022

Coming together to fall apart.

This retrospective report from The New York Times has all the juicy details about how the merger between AT&T and Time Warner became one of the worst in history:

But for sheer strategic miscalculation and poor execution, AT&T’s management of Warner Media may have no rival in recent corporate history.

It’s a long, but fascinating read, featuring interviews with former Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and former AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson.

Was This $100 Billion Deal the Worst Merger Ever?

[The New York Times]

Wickr’s free encrypted messaging app is shutting down next year

Emma RothNov 19, 2022

Waymo can now provide fully driverless rides in San Francisco

Emma RothNov 19, 2022

CBS News has temporarily stopped tweeting.

During a report about the mass resignations happening at Twitter (via Variety), CBS News reporter Jonathan Vigliotti revealed the outlet’s suspending posts on the platform following Elon Musk’s takeover:

In light of the uncertainty around Twitter, and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform.

It looks like some local CBS-owned stations are affected as well, with one in San Francisco tweeting a similar statement.

Elon Musk's Twitter ultimatum met with mass resignations

[CBS News]