As somebody who obsesses more than most on how tech companies' comms teams try to shape journalists' stories I've noticed Meta has in recent years gone from passive-agreessively trying to kill stories to going aggro against reporters and outlets.
It mirrors how agencies and the White House during Trump 2.0 do that, though I'm not sure if the timelines match up that neatly.
There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.
Interesting, considering Meta comms made such a stink about how it was never deployed and claimed Wired went overboard with their first story.
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You're making me realize how much I want to read a deep dive on the ways WV has changed this century.
Scott Pelley's one of those one-man-institution guys who I didn't think to appreciate til he's gone, but man I appreciate him. Routinely doing TV journalism that's smart, hard hitting, and very broadly accessible might be the hardest thing in journalism and he's so good at that.
This is awesome. 95% of the time I just want to know either a score, gametime, or channel a game is on, nothing else, and it has become absurd how that's usually no longer an easy search.
Buying extra storage space for your Google Drive is now called AI for some reason.