In a segment for This American Life, Roth, who resigned shortly after Elon Musk officially took over Twitter, talks about what brought him to eventually leave the company.
[This American Life]
According to the Financial Times:
The US tech giant has made the concession to avoid a formal investigation, said two people with direct knowledge of the decision, following a 2020 complaint by rival Slack which claimed Microsoft’s practice of bundling the two services together was anti-competitive.
However, the publication notes that talks about a deal are still ongoing.
[FinancialTimes]
The League of Legends World Championship is taking place in South Korea this year from October 10th through November 19th. Here’s hoping we get another spectacular, tech-filled show ahead of the finals.
[LoL Esports]
Nintendo’s latest Tears of the Kingdom ad has some brief new footage of the game, featuring things like a mysterious cavern and a minecart puzzle in the sky. Like the person in this ad, I will certainly make the minecart fall many times when I get to the puzzle myself. (And I eagerly look forward to it.)
Some Twitter users, including @dril, are advocating for people to block anyone who subscribes to Twitter Blue. Those who do so are a lot easier to identify after the Twitter check apocalypse.
Here’s @dril, in an email to Mashable:
“99% of twitter blue guys are dead-eyed cretins who are usually trying to sell you something stupid and expensive, and now they want to pay a monthly subscription fee to boost their dog shit posts front and center,” Twitter user @dril told me in an email when I asked about his thoughts on the #BlockTheBlue campaign.
“blocking them and encouraging others to do the same on a massive scale is the complete opposite of what they want,” he continued. “Its funny.”
Blink-182 is stepping in on Sunday after Frank Ocean dropped out due to injuries. You can watch livestreams from six stages all weekend on the Coachella channel on YouTube starting tonight at 7PM ET / 4PM PT. And if you want to catch up on some of the best moments from last weekend, check out Coachella’s highlights playlist.
NPR reports that, per a former Twitter employee:
“What I understand to have happened is, at Elon Musk’s direction, Twitter’s Trust and Safety Team, or what’s left of it, took a chainsaw to the visibility filtering rules,” said one of the former employees, who was an executive at the company.
Twitter removed its “government-funded media” labels as well, so now it will be that much more difficult to know if stuff that feels like propaganda might be coming from a state-controlled accounts.
