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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 5

    So is of the most compelling political stories of 2019: the tech candidate running against tech; the upstart from nowhere clearly going somewhere. I dug into his story for .

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    2 hours ago

    wow, what a cover. 's book is available for pre-order. Ships 2/20

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    4 hours ago

    If you’re at , we’ll be screening Apple’s new space-race epic FOR ALL MANKIND at 2:30—then I’ll be talking to and his co-creators. Come through!

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    Nov 8

    Love what is doing here. Journalists are human. We do the best with material we have, but it doesn’t always tell the whole story. Thanks for reminding us to listen to our inner voice and to own up to our mistakes.

    I've thought a lot about the 2015 Mary Cain story I wrote over the years. Bc in hindsight I got it so wrong. I have girls. They love sports. I love sports! There were all these amazing girls running faster than ever. was fastest. Great story! BUT...red flags: 1/8
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    Nov 8

    WATCH: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announces that the platform will start hiding likes for US audiences starting next week. It's the latest step in Instagram’s quest to become the safest place on the internet.

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  6. Nov 8

    Breaking news from : Instagram is going to start testing hide “like” counts in the US. Personally, I think this is great. Makes Instagram less like a stressful video game, particularly for kids.

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    Nov 8

    What does NSA Director of Cybersecurity Anne Neuberger think is a top public safety concern going forward? The weaponization of drones:

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  8. Nov 8

    “Facebook is a media company that pretends to be a tech company. Twitter is a tech company that pretends to be a media company.” — with at

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  9. Nov 8

    Cloudflare CEO : after we kicked off Daily Stormer and 8Chan we got government requests to take down Catalan independence sits, or HK democracy sites. This is hard! So we have to talk publicly about the complex calls.

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    Nov 8

    Speaking with today at ! I'm excited because I've been a huge fan of hers for a while now. She's also kindly offered to help me answer a few questions today on Instagram —  😁

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  11. Nov 8

    “Influence operations have been around since the time of Adam and Eve.” Anne Neuberger, director of cybersecurity at , giving a powerful description of her organization’s obligations to protect elections at

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  12. Nov 8

    You know your conference is going to be a success when the NSA tweets out the livestream!

    Not at ? Livestream the event here:
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  13. Nov 8

    Very cool news: and are making a new series, Myth Quest: Ravens Banquet, for Apple TV+. Even better news: they'll join us tomorrow at 5:15 for its first-ever screening, at Wired25 in SF. Come join if you're here!

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    Nov 8

    Today kicks off , our annual meeting of great minds to talk about the future. If you can't be with us IRL, you can watch a livestream of everything here:

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    Nov 8

    Daniel wrote a book about how we might talk to aliens, and this excerpt is incredible. Communicating with extraterrestrials first means figuring out how human language works

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  16. Nov 7

    In its early days, the Internet "was very much a project of classical liberalism, embedded with 'ideals like human rights, freedom of expression and free trade. If you care about those notions, then internet fragmentation is a problem.'"

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  17. Nov 7

    This is a smart + key point from on the difference between outsiders and insiders see FB.

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  18. Nov 7

    One lesson from the Saudi spies who worked for Twitter; tech companies need to get way better at building walls and limiting which employees have access to what.

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    Nov 7

    BLOOMBERG is filing to run for president

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    Nov 7

    For my first story for , I wrote about how Facebook's two-tiered policy on false ads—one that gives special treatment to politicians—is sort of the opposite of the First Amendment.

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    Nov 7

    Facebook has lawsuits coming at them “from every direction because every Attorney General will gain politically if they attack them,” explains

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