Andrew Ross Sorkin, our Dealbook columnist, questioned whether Twitter is the right forum for public enterprise executives to be talking in the first vicinity. And Kara Swisher, a contributing opinion columnist for The instances, asked on Thursday no matter if Mr. Musk became just plain loopy. She concluded that he wasn't, but counseled that he delete the Twitter app from his cellphone.
It isn't unhealthy suggestions. And neither is the counsel our editors always supply us when we're tempted to weigh in on a Twitter brawl: When unsure, never tweet.
In different tech news this week:
■ Google employees signed an inner letter protesting the business's decision to build a censored version of its search engine for China. The letter, first mentioned via my colleagues Kate Conger and Daisuke Wakabayashi, was the newest instance of how Googl e personnel have challenged the company's management. It additionally complicates Google's try to return to China, which it withdrew from eight years ago to object to Beijing's restrictions on free speech and hacking.
■ File this under how the rich just keep getting richer. My colleague Erin Griffith wrote this week about how Silicon Valley beginning-usaare being showered with so a good deal cash — funding rounds of $one hundred million and up called mega-rounds are booming — that they are struggling to figure out what to do with all of it.
■ Cuba is among the few last materials of the realm the place people nevertheless combat to get online. however for nine hours on Tuesday, Cubans abruptly had the web. right through the duration of a test being run through the Cuban govt, which partnered with a instant web enterprise, Cubans may get online for free of charge the use of their cellphones.
■ The false internet continues getting extra actual. I wrote a story about a pretend fb community that tricked americans into displaying up at protests. The neighborhood, Black Elevation, was one in every of dozens eliminated by fb for being part of an have an effect on campaign making an attempt to sway americans forward of the midterm elections.
■ And finally, this lengthy study via Reuters was an incredible documentation of the approaches by which facebook's failings in Myanmar led to individuals being killed. an awful lot has been written about how facebook become used to unfold hate speech in Myanmar, which ended in brutal attacks against the country's Rohingya minority. Reuters published that facebook initially had best two Burmese audio system reviewing content material from Myanmar and that it later became to contractors. After Reuters's document, facebook introduced it become hiring covera ge advisors on Myanmar and more Burmese-language moderators.
Sheera Frenkel covers cybersecurity for The times. She previously worked at Buzzfeed and spent years as a correspondent in the middle East. comply with her on Twitter: @sheeraf.
