James Ball / New Statesman:
Elon Musk’s plan to monetize Twitter verification would generate marginal revenue, even at $20/month, and create myriad problems, including enabling spammers — Elon Musk’s latest brainwave risks alienating the users Twitter depends on and would expose it to lawsuits.
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
In 70+ lawsuits against Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Google, parents are making product liability claims, blaming algorithms for kids’ mental health issues, and more — A 16-year-old girl in Utah becomes so obsessed with her body image after getting hooked on Instagram that she develops anorexia and bulimia.
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Lyft faces 17 lawsuits across 11 states from drivers and passengers accusing the company of failing to protect its users from sexual and physical assault — Lyft is facing a fresh batch of lawsuits from drivers and passengers who say they were sexually and physically assaulted during rides …
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
A look at Backstage, Spotify’s open-source developer platform used at Netflix, LinkedIn, Epic, Roku, Box, and 200+ others, which the company seeks to monetize — Backstage is used by developers at Netflix, American Airlines and hundreds of other companies — With nearly a third …
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos:
[Thread] Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing governmental pressures, even as his wealth via Tesla depends on China and others — I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Indiana’s AG sues TikTok for deceiving users about China’s access to data and for exposing kids to mature content, in the first US state lawsuits against TikTok — The lawsuits are the first by an American state against TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in a sign of mounting legal pressure.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
May 2022 survey of non-professional creators in nine regions: 48% monetize content, including 53% in the US; 77% of those who monetize started in the past year — A study funded by Adobe sheds new light on the creator economy, indicating that not only are a large number of people earning money …
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