How Wikipedia is Becoming a Massive Pay-to-Play Scheme
a cottage industry of wikipedia editing services has emerged since the site's founding, and powerful brands and notable media outlets are some of its biggest clients
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a cottage industry of wikipedia editing services has emerged since the site's founding, and powerful brands and notable media outlets are some of its biggest clients
we've known for years from mainstream reporting that british-pakistani men perpetrated some of the UK's worst child grooming gang scandals. why is wikipedia now calling it a moral panic?
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Brendan Weinsteindespite a well-established, unambiguous supreme court precedent, vp pick tim walz argues (yet again) that hate speech isn't constitutionally protected
Riley Norkafter making it through california's legislature, effective altruist-backed sb 1047 was defeated after newsom vetoed it on sunday
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The Pirate Wires Editorial Boardinside the quietly growing industry of companies dedicated to fighting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “narrative attacks,” whose primary customers are western governments and global brands
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we've known for years from mainstream reporting that british-pakistani men perpetrated some of the UK's worst child grooming gang scandals. why is wikipedia now calling it a moral panic?
a cottage industry of wikipedia editing services has emerged since the site's founding, and powerful brands and notable media outlets are some of its biggest clients
Ashley Rindsbergafter making it through california's legislature, effective altruist-backed sb 1047 was defeated after newsom vetoed it on sunday
Brandon Gorrellnew information suggests biden admin regulators deliberately killed off crypto-friendly silvergate in an attempt to decapitate the us crypto industry
Nic Carterinside the quietly growing industry of companies dedicated to fighting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “narrative attacks,” whose primary customers are western governments and global brands
Ashley Rindsberga brief recap of the bangers that you may have missed while you were sunning on your yacht
Mike Solanadespite a well-established, unambiguous supreme court precedent, vp pick tim walz argues (yet again) that hate speech isn't constitutionally protected
a san francisco voter guide for people who aren’t insane
The Pirate Wires Editorial Boardpirate wires #127 // a second attempt on trump’s life (his fault btw) overshadowed by the question of migrants eating cats, immigration, and the devilish power of a meme
Mike Solanapirate wires #126 // brazil bans x as the global war on speech continues, the overton window shifts to jailing founders, and facing the despotism now before us
Mike Solanapirate wires #125 // america goes cuckoo for coconut, VCs for kamala, war on the “substance demanders,” EU moves for global censorship, and how the world has changed since we’ve been vibing
Mike Solanapirate wires #123 // attempt on trump’s life, mainstream discourse in the crosshairs, the blueanon distraction from accountability, and thank god for conspiracy theories: the price we pay for truth
Mike Solanahow the national park service's 'yosemite mafia' is abusing federal power to enrich themselves, quash investigations, and threaten the adventurous american spirit
scientists have tried for years to determine the cause of human sexuality, but female-to-male transsexuals and roided male bodybuilders may have already figured it out
Sanjana Friedmantechcrunch’s wild spiral into madness reminds us of the stakes, a brief history of “new” media, and notes from pirate wires — what we knew, what we learned along the way, and where we’re going
Mike Solanafrom the christ-like resurrection of america’s frat boy to the chadification of tech, anti-masculinity is over; chad maximalism has arrived
Mike Solanaa florida law that would prevent citizens of foreign adversaries like china from buying agricultural land and land near military bases has been halted by an activist judge for being racist
River Pageis the conservative war on cultivated meat a matter of protecting the beef lobby, protecting consumers, or a third more mysterious thing (owning the libs)?
River Pagewe've known for years from mainstream reporting that british-pakistani men perpetrated some of the UK's worst child grooming gang scandals. why is wikipedia now calling it a moral panic?
Kevin Chaikena cottage industry of wikipedia editing services has emerged since the site's founding, and powerful brands and notable media outlets are some of its biggest clients
Ashley Rindsberghow the national park service's 'yosemite mafia' is abusing federal power to enrich themselves, quash investigations, and threaten the adventurous american spirit
Brendan Weinsteindespite a well-established, unambiguous supreme court precedent, vp pick tim walz argues (yet again) that hate speech isn't constitutionally protected
Riley Norkafter making it through california's legislature, effective altruist-backed sb 1047 was defeated after newsom vetoed it on sunday
Brandon Gorrellnew information suggests biden admin regulators deliberately killed off crypto-friendly silvergate in an attempt to decapitate the us crypto industry
Nic Cartera san francisco voter guide for people who aren’t insane
The Pirate Wires Editorial Boardpirate wires #127 // a second attempt on trump’s life (his fault btw) overshadowed by the question of migrants eating cats, immigration, and the devilish power of a meme
Mike Solanainside the quietly growing industry of companies dedicated to fighting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “narrative attacks,” whose primary customers are western governments and global brands
Ashley Rindsberga brief recap of the bangers that you may have missed while you were sunning on your yacht
Mike Solanathe telegram ceo’s arrest embodies the white-hot issues of security, censorship, government interference, geopolitics and the manic competition for all-important eyeballs that is the internet today
Ashley Rindsbergour astronauts are stuck in space, anduril's arsenal-1, US manufacturing, tariffs, google, trump, media, our vanishing internet, palmer's most heretical thoughts, and hope for the future
Mike Solanapirate wires #126 // brazil bans x as the global war on speech continues, the overton window shifts to jailing founders, and facing the despotism now before us
Mike Solanawikipedia editors churn news articles from an overwhelmingly left-leaning list of “reliable sources” into neutrality-emblazoned fact
Ashley Rindsbergin the face of overwhelming resistance to sb 1047, scott wiener continues to defend effective altruists' position, while mischaracterizing opponents as just the "loudest voices"
Dean W. Ballpirate wires #125 // america goes cuckoo for coconut, VCs for kamala, war on the “substance demanders,” EU moves for global censorship, and how the world has changed since we’ve been vibing
Mike Solanaa new labour government is flexing its muscles after a decade and a half out of power, during which time the internet grew exponentially, but british control over the internet didn’t
Allen Farrington and Preston Byrnecriticisms of sb 1047 have reached a fever pitch, with academics and politicians joining silicon valley in a rejection of the ambiguous regulatory regime it would impose on the industry
Brandon Gorrell and Riley Norkwikipedia cofounder dr. larry sanger on the establishment takeover of wikipedia, corporate control of online knowledge, why information disappears from the internet, and more
Mike Solanaa house judiciary report suggests an advertising cabal organized a boycott of 𝕏 and took similar actions against other websites it deems ideologically problematic
Riley Norkinside the cultural revolution at wikipedia, which pivoted it from a decentralized database of all the world's knowledge to a top-down social activism and advocacy machine
Ashley Rindsbergpirate wires #124 // open war in silicon valley — a question of ethics, politics, or status? — trump’s new dance with venture capital, zenefits, and the other side of “going direct”
Mike Solanafor years, the eu has weaponized regulations to extract billions from u.s. tech companies. with their most recent batch of laws, they’ve positioned themselves to destroy tech’s profit margins
Sanjana Friedmandan hendrycks, an executive at a firm that co-sponsored scott wiener's ai bill, co-founded an ai safety compliance company that launched on tuesday
Brandon Gorrellsb 1047 is inching closer to the legislative finish line, and will likely pass easily through the chamber — the only question that remains is if newsom will veto it
Sanjana Friedmanpirate wires #123 // attempt on trump’s life, mainstream discourse in the crosshairs, the blueanon distraction from accountability, and thank god for conspiracy theories: the price we pay for truth
Mike Solanathe european commission wanted 𝕏 to hire a team of people in the eu that would unilaterally oversee the removal of 'misinformation' on the platform, a source with knowledge of the issue told us
Brandon Gorrellfree markets are responsible for our prosperity. let’s build more of them.
Tarek Mansourcalifornia relies disproportionately on a tiny handful of ultrawealthy households, which underwrite the state’s massive expenditures. what happens if it taxes them out?
Sanjana Friedmantechcrunch’s wild spiral into madness reminds us of the stakes, a brief history of “new” media, and notes from pirate wires — what we knew, what we learned along the way, and where we’re going
Mike Solanaa new effort from balaji to curate a meritocracy-focused hiring platform is an antidote to dei
Riley Nork