John Paczkowski
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Executive Editor, Tech & Innovation, @forbes . Previously: BuzzFeed News, Recode, AllThingsD (He/him) @jawnpaczkowski on threads
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Meanwhile, over on Parler they’re talking about blowing up AWS data centers
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editing in a nutshell
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Elon fled a Twitter space with most every tech reporter in the business when
@katienotopoulos
pressed him on this moments ago.
If anyone posted real-time locations & addresses of NYT reporters, FBI would be investigating, there’d be hearings on Capitol Hill & Biden would give speeches about end of democracy!
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Our reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project was posted this AM by
@perplexity_ai
. It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views.
#zeroclick
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Personal news: After 7+ years at
@BuzzFeedNews
, I am leaving for a new gig overseeing the tech and innovation team at
@Forbes
. I can’t wait to get started taking some big swings with that team in July.
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"We have paused all product sales in Russia. Last week, we stopped all exports into our sales channel in the country. Apple Pay and other services have been limited. RT News and Sputnik News are no longer available for download from the App Store outside Russia."
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Perplexity’s knock off of our reporting feels like a crystallization of the "Can journalism survive AI?" convo. The company took our paywalled work, without our permission, and competitively broadcast it across web, video, mobile — as though it were itself a media outlet.
Our reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project was posted this AM by
@perplexity_ai
. It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views.
#zeroclick
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"Amazon has not responded to The Intercept’s requests for comment about why employees were not instructed to stay home amid the tornado warnings."
Amazon employees excoriated management for providing almost no tornado safety training after a tornado killed 6 employees in Illinois, per internal company memos leaked to me:
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said today that FB took down stopthesteal and yet: "Stop The Steal" Groups Are Still Flourishing On Facebook via
@janelytv
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Lol. We are only a week in. A WEEK.
Musk on loss of advertisers:
"We've done our absolute best to appease them. And nothing has worked."
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@AravSrinivas
@perplexity_ai
I didn't comment on your core product, or what others are doing. But this story, which you pushed to users, is little more than plagiarism. There is no clear attribution, just tiny logos where our work is treated with the same weight as reblogs. It’s not “rough” it’s theft
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@AravSrinivas
@perplexity_ai
You scraped and repurposed investigative reporting gathered over months, fleshed it out with re-blogs of the same story by other outlets, and do not even bother to name us in your regurgitated post beyond a"Sources" link, which is click to expand.
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@AravSrinivas
@perplexity_ai
The screenshot you shared that has prominent sourcing at the top is not what I'm talking about. This page, which reads like an original news article, does not have appropriate attribution.
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A few hours after Apple's ultimatum, Google issued a similar one telling Parler that its app's listing in the Google Play store would be suspended until it implements a moderation plan that will address "this ongoing and urgent public safety threat."
Parler, which has been widely promoted by
@tedcruz
and
@DevinNunes
, sure seems like a great place for civil discourse
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A spokesperson for the White House referred a request for comment to the office of the vice president. The office of the VP referred the query to FEMA. A spokesperson for FEMA said it could not speak on behalf of the White House
After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators via
@rosalindzadams
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Apple Paused All Product Sales In Russia, Booted RT News And Sputnik News From App Store via
@SarahNEmerson
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“Can we get some courage and actual action from leadership in response to this behavior? Your silence is disappointing at the least and criminal at worst." via
@RMac18
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the "imminent threat" loophole is just shameful BS
Facebook has said it does not treat climate misinformation w/ the same priority as coronavirus misinformation or hate speech b/c climate misinfo is not an "immediate threat" to health/safety.
This is dangerously, undeniably false.
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@schneierblog
on computers + sensitive items left unattended in capitol: “We don’t actually expect coup attempts in the United States. We’re not prepared for it. Do we have protocols? Of course not. We think this happens in other countries.”
Some Trump supporters entered the offices of major reps in the Capitol. From
@davidmackau
+ me:
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Perplexity has now updated their forgery of our reporting to list us as the *third* citation after 2 reblogs of stories we broke, and to add an inline attribution to Forbes that, lol, points to Business Insider's reblog of our most recent work.
Perplexity’s knock off of our reporting feels like a crystallization of the "Can journalism survive AI?" convo. The company took our paywalled work, without our permission, and competitively broadcast it across web, video, mobile — as though it were itself a media outlet.
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"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service" via
@RMac18
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“Right now, the EV to own is a (Porsche) Taycan or a Mercedes EQS. 100%. There's no cachet in a Tesla amongst the wealthy.”
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1. Lol. Nice story placement, Perplexity.
2. But it misses the point. Beyond attribution **The company took our paywalled work, without our permission, and competitively broadcast it across web, video, mobile — as though it were itself a media outlet.**
🟡 SCOOP: Perplexity, the AI search startup that recently came under fire from Forbes, was already planning revenue-sharing deals with publishers,
@ReedAlbergotti
reports.
The deals would provide a framework to earn recurring income.
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lol. not true
Perplexity has been the
#2
referral source for Forbes (behind only Wikipedia) and the top referrer for other publishers. We have been working on new publisher engagement products and ways to align long-term incentives with media companies that will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
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Twitter eng Elon fired via tweet today: “No one trusts anyone within the company anymore. How can you function? Employees don’t trust the new management. Management doesn't trust the employees." via
@cfarivar
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1. Forbes HAS a hard paywall already. Perplexity took our paywalled work from behind it
2. Like most publishers, we are indexed by search engines. Unlike most search engines, Perplexity scraped and copied our stories and republished them under its own brand.
@mattswider
@EricNewcomer
@semafor
@Jason
Actually, I always thought publishers were wrong to give away content for free and to play the clickbait game. I was writing about the ills of social media and the perverted incentives when everyone else was still in love with Facebook. My point here was that AI models can look
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I sent this to my desk at BuzzFeed News after our second/third (FC) round of "reductions" and it is how I will always feel about that incredible newsroom.
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Buzzfeed News is hiring a reporter for its Tech/Biz desk. In the past 3 years our desk has won:
The Mirror Award
The Livingston Award
The Polk Award
The Pulitzer Prize
Come join us! It's a very good gig with excellent humans.
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Ad Execs Urge Twitter CEO To Resign After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post
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Here's some batshit batshit weekend reading from
@shootingthemess
: How Russia’s Top Propagandist Foretold Putin's Justification For The Ukraine Invasion Through Film
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Sept. 15. Don't hold your breath for the new iPhone.
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@CombatBarbie6
@darth
chewy. we had an untenable shame cone situation. see satellite dish below.
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Here's a fun line from an internal and generally batshit
#TikTok
risk assessment report:
"It is impossible to keep data that should not be stored in
#China
from being retained in China-based servers" via
@ebakerwhite
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We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting. TikTok and ByteDance have not denied any of the claims in the story. They are denying something it does not say.
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I understand TikTok tweeted about our reporting last night. Here's the story, and a few notes on what they said:
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Here's Apple's statement on the the FBI opening the Pensacola shooter's iPhone and Barr's remarks on same
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"All it took was an armed insurrection of the capitol building and two weeks left of his presidency." via
@janelytv
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🚨PALMER LUCKEY SUES CONTRACTOR AFTER BEING TRAPPED IN HIS MANSION'S CAR ELEVATOR🚨
Billionaire Palmer Luckey Sues Contractor After Being Trapped In His Mansion's Car Elevator via
@forbes
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It was a dark and stormy night when Tim Sweeney pulled the trigger on the first step in his dastardly plan.
People also like to read about late-night emails so Apple offered this tale about
@TimSweeneyEpic
(Epic's legal filings, btw, are also full of purple prose:
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FB declined to answer our questions about how it moderates content in VR, so we created a test Horizon World filled with banned from FB and Instagram. Content moderators said the world was fine – until we told Meta’s PR team about it. via
@ebakerwhite
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Parler, which has been widely promoted by
@tedcruz
and
@DevinNunes
, sure seems like a great place for civil discourse
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I can’t believe I have to do this, but hey
@timkhiggins
and
@WSJ
, how about some attribution on the story you just sent an email alert about?
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BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize For Exposing China’s System For Detaining Muslims via
@davidmackau
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"ByteDance had planned to place a camera above each Oracle employee as they worked, but Oracle pushed back, saying the cameras would enable ByteDance to see their passwords."
Scoop 2.0: The TikTok-Oracle relationship is full of drama! More on that draft agreement that TikTok was trying to negotiate with the US Gov — and on the role Oracle would play/would have played if it had gone forward.
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“It’s like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park; they get smarter, and eventually they hop the fence." via
@ambiej
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lol "help keep facebook free of charge"
Here is the pop-up that Facebook plans to show users right before they have to decide whether to allow FB to "track" them on iOS 14.
So you'll see the FB screen first, then a version of this permissions screen from Apple (imagine "Venmo" is replaced with "Facebook")
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Per
@RandallLane
: Perplexity rates as our 54th biggest referral traffic source in terms of users – or 0.014%.
Perplexity has been the
#2
referral source for Forbes (behind only Wikipedia) and the top referrer for other publishers. We have been working on new publisher engagement products and ways to align long-term incentives with media companies that will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
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Narrator: "There was no sense of honor."
Sen. Booker on Justice Ginsburg replacement: “I think Democrats are gonna continue to appeal to the sense of honor that when someone gives their word, as Lindsey Graham did, that they can’t just break it.”
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well, he is definitely "solving" for the problem of it being a company
In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.
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Tesla Wants Ads Showing Its Cars Running Over Kid-Sized Mannequins Taken Down via
@alanohnsman
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Buzzfeed News is hiring a Deputy Editor for its Tech/Biz desk. In the past 3 years our desk has won:
2 Mirror Awards
The Livingston Award
The Polk Award
The Pulitzer Prize
Come join us! It's a very good gig with excellent humans.
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Really just stunning work here 👇
China's Baidu has blank spots in its mapping platform. We used those blank locations to look for the network of prisons and internment camps in Xinjiang, where up to a million Muslim minorities have been detained. Here's how we did it.
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important context: sarah rewrote the entire top in the last 30 minutes after they changed their policy an hour ago
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Man, some people really do not understand the first amendment *at all*
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BREAKING: Barn door closed "indefinitely" (for 2 weeks)
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"The company confirmed those features exist in the code, but said TikTok is not using them."
NEW: TikTok's in-app browser injects code that could let the company monitor a user's keystrokes and taps on outside websites, according to research by
@KrauseFx
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I have been doing this for 20+ years and a little piece of me dies every time i edit story in which we have to do this: "Many had expressed belief in the QAnon mass delusion, which claims that a secret cabal of powerful pedophiles control the world"
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pre-recorded
#wwdc
keynote really makes the event look like the giant advertisement it has always been
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imagine this place during a natural disaster or shooting
an example of the fake accounts and election disinformation elon is responsible for
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🤔
Our reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project was posted this AM by
@perplexity_ai
. It rips off most of our reporting. It cites us, and a few that reblogged us, as sources in the most easily ignored way possible. Note the views.
#zeroclick
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“This memo is corporate gaslighting disguised as a research brief.” via
@RMac18
&
@CraigSilverman
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I am reminded of one of my favorite
@cwarzel
stories: TK TK POSSIBLE TECH ANGLES FOR NYC BLIZZARD DO NOT PUBLISH LOL
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3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.
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