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scoop: a former Meta employee who lost their job in the company’s recent layoffs was detained by ICE in El Paso, Texas, sources tell WIRED. It’s unclear whether they remain in custody.
w/ @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-l...
Rednote went viral last year *because* it was a platform where people could talk to Chinese people and learn about their lives directly, but Xiaohongshu knows that building a truly global social media app just isn’t possible for a Chinese company
SCOOP from @zeyiyang.bsky.social:
Xiaohongshu (or Rednote) is moving to split Chinese users from everyone else, threatening one of the last real bridges between the Chinese internet and the rest of the world www.wired.com/story/rednot...
Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.