Friar was one of Square CEO Jack Dorsey’s most valuable deputies.
“I don’t think that’s fair or right,” Dorsey says.
Dorsey says “we have definitely been gamed” by bad-faith actors and doesn’t expect that Twitter will ever build a “perfect antidote.”
Nicole Wong, the former deputy CTO of the United States, lays out what that might look like.
“If you can order a chocolate cake on Amazon and have it delivered that day, then you ought to be able to get your Social Security benefits just as easily.”
A capsule review of tech’s visit to Washington: The Senate seemed serious, the House did not, and Republicans aren’t done complaining about bias.
Even though Slack’s April Underwood feels like less of an “underdog” recently, she says that’s not true across the board.
It’s going to be a long day for Jack Dorsey and Twitter at the Capitol tomorrow. Facebook should be okay.
Sleeping Giants founder Matt Rivitz tells Recode’s Kara Swisher that he wants to be “the source of some kind of conscience” for social media.
Recode Decode guest Adam Fisher’s new oral history is called “Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley.”
Zignal Labs CEO Josh Ginsberg says consumers and companies need to know what’s bot-generated and what’s not so they can make informed decisions about things like elections.
The worst kind of fame, he says on Recode Media, is the kind that makes everyone ask, “Where do I know you from?”
The social communications company’s stock tanked on negative user growth, but CEO Jack Dorsey think efforts to clean up the service will pay off down the line.
“You’re not doing anything to free those who are more trapped. You’re only enslaving them more by entrenching the system.”
The social company is trying to clean up its act, but how much is it spending and will it cost Twitter any users?
But that’s not going to get the New York Times White House scribe Maggie Haberman back on the social communications platform anytime soon.
Josh Ginsberg, the CEO of media intelligence company Zignal Labs, says his company has been seeing “massive amounts of bot activity” lately.
Also, why the “Center for Humane Technology” is not an oxymoron.
Data for Democracy’s Renée DiResta talks about the magnitude of the disinformation problem — and what can be done about it — on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Early Amazon employee Eugene Wei breaks down his theory of “invisible asymptotes” on the latest Recode Media podcast.
Ed Ho is stepping down and Kayvon Beykpour is taking Twitter’s top product job.
Twitter is the latest in a long line of tech companies issuing record amounts of convertible bonds.
Dan Pfeiffer, the former White House communications director under President Obama, is the author of a new book, “Yes, We (Still) Can.”
The New York Times podcast host spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
People are going to pirate World Cup highlights. What can social media companies do to stop them?
Unlike years past, people aren’t just buying Twitter because they think the company will be acquired.
We all spend our Memorial Day weekends in different ways.
Verrilli left Twitter for Google Ventures in 2015. Now she’s trying it again.
Cambridge Analytica can stay on Twitter, just not as an advertiser.
But Twitter is also a mandatory part of the job of media professionals, Manjoo says on Recode Decode.
Twitter made more than $287 million from video ads last quarter.
Twitter plans to grow its workforce 10 percent to 15 percent this year.
All of Twitter’s key numbers were up last quarter, and now so is the stock.
Twitter hasn’t really grown for years. Maybe that no longer matters.
Whether you love the old Kanye, new Kanye, set-on-the-goals Kanye or chop-up-the-soul Kanye, it’s all in there.
It suspended more than 274,000 accounts just in the last six months of 2017.
In the past year, Amazon’s average daily price change has been about 0.3 percent.
It’s been a bad week to be a tech company.
Kristen Lachtman is heading to join other Niche co-founders at their new video startup, Brat.