Influence
“I actually think they are as complicit or, rather, responsible for manipulating worldwide elections. I mean, worldwide.”
Dorsey endorsed Ben Greenfield as a health expert. Greenfield thinks vaccinations lead to autism.
“If you don’t understand it, you’re going to fall behind.”
“We live in a time where the anger against big tech has increased tenfold,” said Kevin Systrom. “That doesn’t mean that the answer is to break all of the companies up.”
Here’s the idea behind a “capped-profit” model.
Twitter wants to limit snark and get “healthy.” So far, it’s gone nowhere.
Facebook is pushing more deeply into private, encrypted communication. What does that mean for your News Feed?
“I believe a privacy-focused communications platform will become even more important than today’s open platforms,” Zuckerberg wrote Wednesday.
“To all the people that worked for me and whose money I took, you’re fucking welcome,” he said.
Does Silicon Valley only work if there is some exclusion, some selectivity, and some prestige? Or can it scale and be accessible to everyone?
And the SEC isn’t playing around.
That’s one of the questions Rhizome artistic director Michael Connor has to face as he and his team chronicle “net art.”
Williams, Twitter’s co-founder and longtime board member, announced he’s leaving the board.
That’s because “ad free” doesn’t just mean ad free.
More turnover in the upper ranks of an industry that has had a ton recently.
Silicon Valley has compromised our autonomy, Zuboff says: “They can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know.”
A dozen former employees, investors in the fund, and other people close to the matter describe an investment firm in disarray.
Diller, the former CEO of Paramount and Fox, talks about the diminished power of movie studios and why “Netflix has won this game” on the latest Recode Decode.
“That’s not what I meant!”
On the latest Recode Media podcast, Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts says it’s only for the 1 percent of the 1 percent.
The interview starts at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT. You can follow their conversation using the hashtag #karajack.
Swisher interviewed the Twitter CEO live on Twitter about the platform, elections — and how hard it is to do an interview on Twitter.
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter’s product issues.
McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he’s speaking out against the social giant.
It’s a media pro move, and it’s one that you can only make once you decide you want to be a media figure to begin with.
Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode’s Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media.
From dorm room to global dominance, Facebook’s path to 2.3 billion users.
What if startups chose for themselves who should get money? Would they back more female founders?
People want selfies. They don’t usually want to give you money.
Hobson is one of the most prominent black women in finance, and she’s not happy with how her industry is doing.
After two years of dealing with Russia and fake news and privacy debacles, the Facebook CEO seems ready to change the subject.
Apple moved fast and broke Facebook.
Facebook will stop its “market research” program that was paying users in exchange for their mobile data.
Tim Cook won’t come out and explain Apple’s plan to take on Big TV. But he’s almost there.
We hope analysts will ask about it on Facebook’s Q4 earnings call.
Some investors balked at the price tag for the direct-to-consumer men’s health brand.
It sure feels like regulation is coming for Facebook.
Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss Tesla on the latest Pivot, plus Tucker Carlson, Fyre Festival and the MAGA teens from Covington Catholic.
Fried says tech startups are addicted to raising and spending money, and the VC funding cycle is to blame.
At the same time, the company is currently hiring for a dozen-plus roles.