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For our money, there are few social media pleasures more immediately satisfying than taking a minute out of your day to yell at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. For good reason, too: As the man in charge of one of the most prolific and potentially powerful conversation platforms on the planet, Dorsey has a lot of responsibility in his hands, authority he tends to use exclusively in the crafting of elaborate explanations and equivocations for how his company’s self-created rules tie his hands from, say, banning Alex Jones from constantly beshitting the platform. (Give-or-take a measly week-long ban, at least.) But now, those fun-loving conservatives in Congress have decided that the rest of us don’t get to hog all the “Fuck you, @jack” fun for ourselves. Deadline reports that Dorsey has been called to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the same folks who cheerfully grilled Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year in an inadvertent effort to make him … [Read more...] about Now Congress wants a chance to yell at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, too

Representatives from the biggest companies in tech will meet privately Friday to share information on how they're preparing for the midterm election, Buzzfeed reported late Thursday. The goal of the meeting apparently is to try to avoid a repeat of the Russian interference that occurred during the 2016 US election. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, called the meeting, inviting representatives from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft and Snapchat, to a meeting at Twitter's headquarters in downtown San Francisco, Buzzfeed reported, citing an email it had obtained."As I've mentioned to several of you over the last few weeks, we have been looking to schedule a follow-on discussion to our industry conversation about information operations, election protection, and the work we are all doing to tackle these challenges," Gleicher reportedly wrote in the email. Now Playing: Watch this: Twitter's newest feature informs users about political... 1:20 … [Read more...] about Facebook, Twitter, Google and others to meet about midterm elections, report says

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept. 5, the committee confirmed Friday."CONFIRMED: Twitter CEO @jack Dorsey will testify September 5 before E&C on the company's algorithms and content monitoring," the committee tweeted."Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go viral," said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden, a Republican from Oregon, in a statement. "When decisions about data and content are made using opaque processes, the American people are right to raise concerns. "This committee intends to ask tough questions about how Twitter monitors and polices content, and we look forward to Mr. Dorsey being forthright and transparent regarding the complex processes behind the company's algorithms and content judgement calls," he added.Representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter will also appear before the Senate Select … [Read more...] about Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before House Energy and Commerce Committee

A group of Amazon employees has nothing but nice things to say on Twitter about working at the online retailer.The so-called "FC Ambassadors" are people who work in Amazon warehouses and are paid to defend and promote the company on Twitter, reported the BBC.TechCrunch spotted 15 of the ambassador accounts on Twitter, according to a report published Thursday. They all have the signature Amazon smiley face as their backgrounds and the same format for their Twitter bio -- job title, warehouse location, years of working at Amazon, hobbies and links to Amazon's warehouse tour service. So far, the accounts have responded to questions and criticism about everything from Amazon's health benefits, to how they got the ambassador role, to whether warehouse employees get sufficient bathroom breaks.Amazon has faced criticism over labor issues including pay and treatment of warehouse employees. The company's warehouse workers in Spain, Germany and Poland went on strike last month during Prime … [Read more...] about Amazon’s warehouse ‘ambassadors’ play defense on Twitter

This week’s version of The Real Husbands of the White House aired a very special episode when the public break up between Nicki Minaj and Safaree President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued on social media. On Thursday, the president of people who find pleasure in watching monster trucks smash regular cars made an appearance on his personal YouTube channel, Fox News, and boasted that he didn’t know what kind of man Jeff Sessions was. Seemingly out of nowhere, Sessions, who has spent the majority of his time in the formal position as Trump’s whipping boy, grew a spine and decided to strike back at the president. The wombat Attorney General issued a statement noting that he and the Department of Justice would not be “improperly influenced by political considerations.” “While I am Attorney General, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations,” Sessions statement read, … [Read more...] about President Trump and Jeff Sessions Continue Their Reality Show Reunion Brawl on Twitter