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The Tesla CEO thinks he's protecting free speech. He's showing us how easily it could go away.

Shifts in power in Silicon Valley mean new stories need telling — here’s a guide to what feels dated and what feels fresh in 2022.

Snooping through celebrity cryptocurrency transactions leads to some weird questions. Who’s buying the NFTs, and is it legal?

It seems vital to point out that Facebook isn't only a poor website; it's also a firm that has demonstrated a willingness to do the wrong thing whenever and wherever it can.

New York’s April 12-25, 2021 issue cover. A year into a ruinous pandemic, the wealthy have so much capital they’re inventing ever more chaotic ways to spend it. For New York Magazine’s April 12-25, 2021 issue cover story, a look into the new world of money with Max Read on the non-fungible, memeified, cryptodenominated, degenerate future of finance; Scott Galloway on how outsiders are making their own volatility in a system rigged by the rich; an overnight millionaire’s confessions; th...

Share this article Share this article ORLANDO, Fla., March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent survey of 200 business owners and enterprise CEOs conducted by Green Light Digital, over 26% responded that they believe that modern digital marketing is a rigged system designed to get them to spend money. Furthermore, 15.6% say that paid online advertising is a scam, and almost 27% admit that their campaigns rarely, if ever, turn a profit. Is Facebook a Giant Marketing Scam? According to data from t...

Tim Cook Reportedly Killed an Apple TV Show About Gawker Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail On paper, it sounds like a big get for any streaming service: Scraper, a show that changed the name of its titular blog but was clearly based on Gawker Media with many former Gawker employees — including Cord Jefferson, Max Read, Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann — attached to the project. And as a New York Times piece points out, Apple TV+ had picked up the series — with severa...

  Apple reportedly killed an Apple TV+ series chronicling the rise of Gawker Media after CEO Tim Cook personally intervened, according to a new report. Earlier in 2020, the Apple streaming platform was said to be working with former Gawker staff on a dramedy series about the subversive blog network. Since then, no word has surfaced on the project. On Sunday, however, The New York Times reported that Apple TV+ scrapped the show after Cook discovered its development and sent an email in respon...

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Apple has canceled plans to make a TV series about Gawker Media after its CEO Tim Cook expressed a negative view about the media company, The New York Times reported Sunday. After finding out about "Scraper," Cook emailed an Apple executive, the Times reported, citing two people briefed on the email. Cook was surprised to hear about the Apple TV Plus series, they said. Apple then canceled plans to make the show, which it had acquire...

Report: Apple TV+ Show Based on Gawker Media Got Scrapped After Tim Cook Intervened Monday December 14, 2020 2:01 am PST by Tim Hardwick An Apple TV+ series chronicling the rise of controversial blogging network Gawker Media was reportedly canned after Tim Cook learned about the project and intervened, according to a new report. Earlier this year, Vanity Fair claimed Apple was in the early stages of developing a series about Gawker. Called "Scraper," the series was reportedly pitched by two fo...