Casey Newton

Meta's statement about eliminating encryption in Instagram DMs was disingenuous and misleading. Here are the real reasons it's going away https://www.platformer.news/instagram-encryption-meta-whatsapp/

Sometimes Forkizens are a bit too quick to report an account. If someone's first post is “Hi I'm Melissa and I'm here to meet people and have fun," we should not automatically assume they are a bot! Let's maybe give them another post or two before we report them

Love,
Your mods

Wrote about the Grammarly lawsuit https://www.platformer.news/grammarly-expert-review-lawsuit/

RE: @Bryper@theforkiverse.com

Insult him 🙏

In which Ella Markianos attends a protest at OpenAI and finds an anti-movement gradually gathering steam. A fun story, given the stakes https://www.platformer.news/openai-protest-military-ai-movement/

Sam Altman's deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. So what happens when the truth inevitably comes out? https://www.platformer.news/openai-pentagon-surveillance-drones-backlash/

RE: @Techmeme@techhub.social

Teenage Mutant Tinja Gurtles, Teenage Mutant Tinja Gurtles …

The social media trial underway in LA is only one of the major challenges to Section 230 that has recently gained traction. It really feels like a dam is about to break https://www.platformer.news/the-infinite-scroll-goes-on-trial/

#Forkiverse update: we are now at 9,195 registered users 💪

It's Hard Fork Friday!! Here's our latest episode, which includes a meaty update on the Forkiverse from @kevin@theforkiverse.com, @pj@theforkiverse.com and me https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork

Good morning The Forkiverse!! Another 200 people or so joined us overnight. And now the fire marshal is here. He's doing ... a sexy little dance. Wait a minute does this guy even work at the fire department

The Forkiverse has now surpassed 2,000 users (and our wildest dreams). Thank you to all of you for taking some time out to check out our little corner of the internet!

https://fedidb.com/servers/theforkiverse.com

RT if you love French fries!!!