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13 Aug

Tech Could Use More Susan Wojcickis

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As the CEO of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, Susan Wojcicki was no stranger to controversy. She once said that trying to manage a platform struggling with misinformation and vile behavior meant that “everybody is angry at you all the time.”But after learning that she had died last week at age 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer, the firestorm I keep coming back to had nothing to do with the business she ran. It took place during a period in 2015 when interviewers at tech conferences couldn’t seem to stop asking Wojcicki about her kids. The CEO had five of…

X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform

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X, whose top executives have long railed against advertisers who fled the platform amid concerns over hate speech, is now also suing them. X has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and several of its members, including Mars, Unilever and CVS Health, CEO Linda Yaccarino said in an shared on X.According to Yaccarino, the group engaged in an “illegal boycott” of X. “The consequence - perhaps the intent - of this boycott was to seek to deprive X’s users, be they sports fans, gamers, journalists, activists, parents or political and corporate leaders, of the…

Elon Musk’s X to Close San Francisco Office, Relocate Workers

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Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will close its San Francisco office, ending the company’s presence in the city where it was founded in 2006. Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino sent an email to employees saying X will move out of its Market Street space in San Francisco, according to a person familiar with the company. Employees will be relocated to an existing office in San Jose and an engineering office in Palo Alto, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the email wasn’t shared publicly. Source link lol