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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram is now published!!! Now you can read it and tell me what you think:
simonandschuster.com/books/No-Filte…
Sarah Frier
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Sarah Frier
@sarahfrier
In charge of big tech coverage at Bloomberg. Author of NO FILTER: The Inside Story of Instagram, from @simonschuster.
- “Dave, you’re the kind of customer I’m happy to lose.” - Jeff Bezos
- Replying to @sarahfrierOk, used an app to turn off the iPhone color correction. Here’s what it really looks like out there in San Francisco, at 10 in the morning. (It’s getting darker)
- Every journalist, no matter the beat, covers politics now.
- Wow. Google announcing YouTube's annual ad revenue for the first time. YouTube ads generated $15 billion!
- It's infuriating that movies and shows so often depict fictional female journalists sleeping with sources to get their stories. In this movie, they're portraying a REAL REPORTER doing so, with no evidence, and she's not alive to defend herself.
- Behold Mark Zuckerberg’s revised origin story for Facebook, as a way to give people voice during the Iraq war. (And compare to the Harvard Crimson on Zuckerberg’s hot-or-not tool in 2003 thecrimson.com/article/2003/1…)
- Elon Musk tells Twitter staff bankruptcy is possible, sources say. Yoel Roth, the head of trust and safety, and Robin Wheeler, who was leading that big Twitter spaces call with advertisers, are both now out, sources add. Also, no more free food.
- The rumor is that KPop fans and TikTokers reserved a lot of tickets with no intention of going, to mess up the attendance expectations and the data-gathering operation. If you are one of those people/have any sense of the size of that effort I want to hear from you!Just passed 800,000 tickets. Biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x. Saturday is going to be amazing!
- Wowww the FTC calls for the Facebook and Instagram acquisitions to be unwound.
- The advertiser boycott of Facebook is accelerating. Coca Cola just joined. The changes Mark Zuckerberg announced today didn’t seem to help much.
- And earlier today, Twitter deleted Bolsonaro tweets. This is a defining moment: companies willing to shut down disinfo from world leaders if they have the World Health Organization to back them up on what counts as harmful
- Theory: everyone is into Marie Kondo and the Great British Baking Show because our lives and politics are so crazy that it’s nice to be brought into an alternate reality where people are kind to one another and accomplish goals that have nothing to do with the internet
