Karissa Bell
Tech journalist; incisive coverage of CEO interviews and tech company accountability.
Meta AI Unblockable Sparks Million-Post Trend
"Users cannot block Meta AI" is currently the top trend here with more than a million posts 🤔
Meta Tests Grok‑style AI on Threads in Select Markets
NEW: Meta is starting to test a version of Meta AI for Threads that will function a lot like how Grok does on X. People will be able to tag meta.ai in their posts and replies. Testing first in Malaysia,...
Apple Should Lock FaceTime Controls for Toddlers
free idea for Apple's incoming CEO: make a setting that automatically locks all the onscreen buttons on FaceTime so toddlers FaceTiming with their aunties aren't constantly hanging up or muting the call
Deepfake Reagan Highlights Need for Human Verification
At a Tools for Humanity (ie Sam Altman’s eye-scanning orb company) event in SF this morning where they are announcing a bunch of upgrades to their “proof of human” identity service World ID. The event opened with a video of...
Bluesky Hit by Sophisticated DDoS, Fix Due Tomorrow
Bluesky has been wonky all day to due to a "sophisticated" DDoS attack. It sounds like they are still trying to get it under control w/ an update coming "no later than" 10am PT tomorrow
OpenAI Funds TBPN for Positive AI Spin, Claims Independence
idk seems kinda telling that OpenAI is simultaneously saying they spent untold $$$ on TBPN to promote more "constructive" narratives about the AI industry but also they plan to let them keep editorial independence (which, lol, TBPN not exactly a...
Reddit Posts Get Repurposed by Facebook Farm Accounts
Incredible how I will see a post on the front page of Reddit and then a day or two later the same thing shows up on Facebook from some slop account .. FB is trying so hard to incentivize “original”...
X Limits Creator Earnings to Domestic Impressions After Location Scandal
Remember when X started showing the location of accounts and everyone found out that a bunch of pro-Trump influencers were actually based in other countries? Now the company says it's changing up its revenue sharing program so people will only...
Meta Pays Creators Up to $3K Monthly to Join Facebook
NEW: Meta is offering creators who have large followings on other platforms (but who don't regularly post on Facebook) up to $3k a month in bonuses if they start posting on Facebook, it's the company's latest plan to bring higher...
Even Elaborate Spam Texts Are Still Scams
Got this spam text last night claiming I had a hearing for “toll evasion” and at first I thought wow, this feels like they put more effort than the standard phishing text but then I looked more closely and 😂