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Correspondent @capitol_forum covering all things tech antitrust email: smorrison @thecapitolforum signal: @sara .01 confidential tips: morrisonsara @protonmail .com

New York, NY
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Sara Morrison
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I am now @Capitol_Forum covering antitrust! send me tips or say hi: smorrison @thecapitolforum .com
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Sara Morrison
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. @turbotax 's image for "single" is a woman with a cat.
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Jake Anbinder
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What profession has lost the most prestige as a result of its members having access to twitter?
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Before everyone leaves this site forever here is a photo of my dog with the pumpkin I carved in her honor
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Happy 6th anniversary to this great tweet, which is still up
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The Boston Globe
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An antioxidant in chocolate appears to improve some memory skills people lose with age http://t.co/p5l9Rwjrh8 http://t.co/jCQhrfvXt5
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Cancel culture 😢
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time to consult "live help" and ask if they can at least change it to a dog, or a woman confidently drinking a wine.
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Social media bans are good now, says man trying to outlaw social media bans
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Matt Dixon
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. @GovRonDeSantis ’ office on Rebekah Jones Twitter suspension
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Sara Morrison
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Until then, here's the story. Thanks much to @thezedwards and @seanodiggity for checking into this and walking me through all of the technical aspects. And thanks very much to Alejandro who found it all in the first place.
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“HIPPA”
@BLaw
Bloomberg Law
3 years
What's a law that isn't real but non-lawyers think is?
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Sara Morrison
1 year
A story about an accidental WhatsApp account hijacking and how to prevent it (and other phone number-based account security issues) from happening to you.
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Sara Morrison
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(it's because it's porn)
@petergyang
Peter Yang
4 years
🔒 OnlyFans grew faster than any other creator platform this year. Let's explore why 👇 1. Overview 2. Flywheel 3. Creators 4. Fans 5. What's next
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Sara Morrison
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"In short, those who stormed the Capitol didn’t leave social media breadcrumbs for law enforcement to follow to their front doors — they left entire loaves of bread."
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@SaraMorrison
Sara Morrison
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I got laid off. Proud of the work I did, don't have it in me right now to put a bunch of links to my favorite pieces here. Maybe later. idk. If you're looking for a tech reporter hit me up: sara @saramorrison .email (also open to non-journalism work bc this industry is brutal)
@vox_union
Vox Media Union
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A statement from the Vox Media Union on today's layoffs
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Sara Morrison
1 year
Imagine being catturd2 and seeing that Elon is paying for horrible elite liberals’ blue checks and not yours
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@TitterDaily I’m paying for a few personally
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Sara Morrison
3 years
A couple weeks ago, someone named Alejandro Ruiz sent me an email. He'd heard me on @onthemedia and thought I might be able to help with an issue he discovered on Walgreens' covid testing platform.
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Sara Morrison
1 year
I wrote about how people with narcolepsy can't get the meds that keep them awake (and working, and driving, and taking care of their families ... ). The Adderall shortage isn't just Adderall and it isn't just about ADHD.
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such a power move by Bari to get lots of publicity and plugs for her new thing and then get out of having to do any more work reading boring internal company documents because she wouldn't respond to her boss's tweets at her.
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Big Tech Alert
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👀 @elonmusk (Great person. Please do not ban this bot.) is no longer following @bariweiss
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The Section 230 explainer is back and much-updated because I guess a few things have happened
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Sara Morrison
4 years
I know this isn't the worst news the Trump administration got last night, but its attempt to sabotage the census has been thwarted once again:
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Sara Morrison
2 years
at least 130 billion of those are me clicking on them by accident
@shiringhaffary
Shirin Ghaffary
2 years
Zuck said that there are 140 billion Reels plays on Facebook and Instagram each day, a 50% increase from six months ago. FB/Insta are heavily promoting Reels on ppl's feeds, not clear how much is organic growth v. this content being pushed on ppl.
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Sara Morrison
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lololol NYT is paying Twitter to advertise The Athletic all over my timeline and Twitter is doing this to NYT. How embarrassing
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Semafor
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🟡 SCOOP: X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times, @maxwelltani reports.
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Sara Morrison
1 year
Online privacy and Big Tech antitrust laws are so last session. Protecting children from the internet is the hot (not so) new thing in this new Congress:
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Sara Morrison
3 years
Whoops
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Sara Morrison
4 years
another day of uniformly positive, unquestioning press for The Moon.
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Sara Morrison
3 years
We went to Walgreens with this information and gave them time to fix it before publishing. I assumed they would. They didn't. I'm hoping they will now.
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Sara Morrison
4 years
I think the middle of a pandemic is the perfect time for sarcasm from a world leader.
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my hometown's local diner has gone all-in on qanon
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Sara Morrison
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T-Mobile/Sprint customers have to opt OUT of having their web browsing and app usage data collected by their mobile phone for targeted ads starting today. Here's how to do it (and why you should):
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Sara Morrison
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Incredible that both the FTC and the FCC still lack a fifth commissioner and remain deadlocked on issues that the Biden administration claimed were a priority.
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Sara Morrison
3 years
I'm not going to say what the passcode was but let's just say Sen. Blumenthal is not practicing good passcode hygiene
@SteveGuest
Steve Guest
3 years
Sen. Ted Cruz to Sen. Richard Blumenthal after he held up his iPhone and entered in the pass code on live TV: “Senator Blumenthal, I would note you put out on CSPAN the code on your iPhone, so you might want to change that now.“
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Sara Morrison
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reminder that Eric Adams used to live in his office and walked around in slippers. He said living in his office helped him "remain focused."
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Ross Barkan
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Eric Adams continues to denounce remote work. "You can't stay home all day in your pajamas." He says humans are social creatures.
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@byashleyhackett @ScottNover Does it come with benefits
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@mattyglesias Don’t you have covid?
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Sara Morrison
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the only thing that's "new" about this is that high schoolers are shunning the perpetrator when they used to shun the victim.
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The Cut
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One such student, Diego, has been shunned in the hallways and classrooms of his high school ever since word got out that he’d shown off a nude photo of his girlfriend while drunk at a party
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Sara Morrison
3 years
perhaps having one company responsible for powering like a third of the internet is not the best idea
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NPR
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AWS, Amazon's cloud computing service, is suffering a major outage, leaving users unable to access huge portions of the internet — including Netflix, Venmo, Fidelity and even some of NPR's own apps.
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Sara Morrison
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Sorry but there’s no way this article would have been written this way (or even at all) if it was about two men.
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Shawn McCreesh
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Food fight!!!!!
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Sara Morrison
3 years
I confirmed his findings with several other people. Yes, Walgreens didn't hide the patient testing link behind any kind of log-in. If you have the link, you can see it. Yes, behind that page was a ton of their data, including home address, email, phone, DOB.
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@SaraMorrison
Sara Morrison
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🎺let it be known that today is my first day @recode / @voxdotcom ! I'm reporting on all things digital privacy 🔎📲. Send tips/say hello: sara.morrison @recode .net
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Sara Morrison
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He sent me one of the most thorough and well-explained emails I've ever received walking me through the issues he found there, and how Walgreens had exposed a ton of covid testing patient information on the open internet and to ad trackers.
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Sara Morrison
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Hillary about to get 50,000 emails from men telling her that her voice just doesn't sound professional enough
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Axios
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Hillary Clinton to launch new podcast ahead of election
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Sara Morrison
3 years
Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.
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Michael Tracey
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In this post I also share the thrilling story of how I ended up in a vacant section of the New York Islanders game last night that had been reserved for Juneteenth community outreach
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Sara Morrison
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@teddyschleifer imagine tweeting to 137k followers and then being furious and confused when a reporter follows up on it
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Sara Morrison
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Yes, the page was full of ad trackers and many of them were getting the patient ID number, which could then be used to get the page URL with all of that information on it.
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Sara Morrison
4 years
Ugh, wasted another trip to Walgreens
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Sara Morrison
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@ben_mckenzie wait you're an actor too?
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Sara Morrison
3 years
I wrote about what it's like to get the first Gmail address for a common name and the access to other people's lives it grants you, because email itself is used for a lot of sensitive things it probably shouldn't be!
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if you still have a job in journalism, this is your reminder to periodically download your contacts and emails so you'll still have them when you're inevitably laid off. Good places will give you time to take them with you. A lot of places are not good.
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Benjamin Powers
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The fact people only have minutes sometimes to download contacts and such from their email before being booted off of the system is just wild given that it’s one of the most crucial parts of their job and they deserve to take those contacts with them.
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Sara Morrison
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@Jason @davecatanese @DavidSacks which stats? Because crime stats always say that people are far more likely to be killed by someone they know than by a stranger. Or a "psychotic homeless person," as I believe Sacks phrased it.
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Sara Morrison
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every time you tweet about how it's wrong to push hydroxychloroquine because we don't know for sure it'll help and it could have side effects but don't mention the shortage this is creating for people who actually need it, you are effectively erasing us.
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Sara Morrison
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@Bobby4Brooklyn @amazon @FedEx @UPS @jessicaramos Can’t wait to tell my 90 year old neighbor who is afraid to leave her house and lives on a very fixed income that she’ll be paying $3 more per delivery of everything that isn’t food or medicine.
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Sara Morrison
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(quietly making a list of men I will never ever have a Zoom meeting with based on their tweets about certain current events)
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Sara Morrison
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this is how articles about Twitter should be framed, I think. Linda Yaccarino took this job for the sole purpose of elevating her own profile, so do that. Put her name and face on what her company is actually doing. Stop letting her pretend it's a safe platform for brands.
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Judd Legum
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Under Linda Yaccarino, X is placing ads for major brands on a verified pro-Hitler account
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Sara Morrison
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A coffee shop recently asked me to leave an 80% tip for a chocolate croissant, so here's a story about all the things we're asked to tip for now, which is everything:
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@minervas_muse @rmc031 Except the college application and process starts before you’re 18. I was 17 when I entered college, 12 when I took the SAT practice test, and 16 when I went to my school’s college fair and started getting unsolicited brochures in the mail from colleges.
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Sara Morrison
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love to give my personal data to Walgreens in order to get a potentially life-saving vaccine (and 1% off all in-store purchases!)
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Sara Morrison
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Here's what I'm doing for the next year!
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Vox
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Introducing Open Sourced, a year-long project from @recode on the hidden consequences of tech. We’ll focus on the most controversial and least understood: AI, algorithms, personal data, and privacy — and we’ll need your help.
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Sara Morrison
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I also think this article is worth a read
@BarackObama
Barack Obama
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This article is worth a read to learn more about why you should respond and what makes the 2020 Census different:
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Sara Morrison
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new job alert! Thrilled to announce that I will be a correspondent for @Capitol_Forum starting February 12. Feeling very lucky to be able to continue to work in journalism these days and looking forward to getting even more into the antitrust weeds.
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@asymmetricinfo
Megan McArdle
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@OHGovTeach @shorewalker1 @B5254T3 And many Europeans have witless beliefs about the squalor and misery of ordinary American lives. Like many American expats, I enjoyed getting asked by a foreign doc whether I didn't feel lucky to be somewhere I could get treatment. "Oh, we treat strep in the US too"
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weird how he went with the military and not the police. wonder why
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Scott Adams
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Why can’t members of the military unionize? You know why. It’s obvious. Yet teachers can form unions, and they have similar importance to homeland security.
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very disappointed that no one has found a photo of the vaccine granny impersonators yet
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Sara Morrison
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fuck him up, whoever is not the Nazi
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Sara Morrison
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If you’re shocked that Trump paid only $750 in taxes then I have some terrible news for you about Amazon, and also all companies, and rich people.
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Sara Morrison
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A year ago today I was unemployed and unconscious while a tumor the size of a grapefruit was removed from my body. This year all grapefruits and objects of equivalent size are external and I love my job and the work I get to do. 😊
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Sara Morrison
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@thetomzone But ..... I thought video was a major part of their new business plan? Didn’t they do a big video push?
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Sara Morrison
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We get a lot of questions at Open Sourced about how Facebook knows what you buy offline. Here are a few possible reasons (none are that it listens to your phone conversations):
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Sara Morrison
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I have an issue with "cultural" worker protections that seem to only think men who jack off at work deserve to be protected while the employees who had to see said jacking off should just have to ~deal~ with it I guess.
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
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Aside from this being a stupid decision (even though I don’t often align with Toobin politically, he’s obviously very good at what he does), worker protections are such shit in this country, and that’s not just legally but culturally too.
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@kept_simple that's a problem with the publication he works for tbh
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@mmpadellan
BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️
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OMG, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot and taken to the hospital. Prayers up. 🙏🙏
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Actually it’s called the “Vox Media Union” and we all got raises.
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Max Meyer
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This is a zoom meeting of the so-called “Vox union” Please just kill me, it’s too much
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@mcuban @BarbaraCorcoran would never pay for Twitter Blue
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Lina Khan says happy new year to everyone except companies that use noncompete clauses
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Sara Morrison
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@chud_meridian @mattyglesias Did he teleport out there or did he go through indoor common areas
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Sara Morrison
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Has Signal taken advantage of the Bad Art Friend discourse yet? (Signal: for when you need your friend group chats to stay PRIVATE. Signal: Because you can set your messages to vanish in 24 hours, and no subpoena will ever get them back. Signal: because we’re all a little petty.)
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Sara Morrison
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Published this yesterday about how platforms are more about pushing content on us than letting us find it for ourselves. Threads came out 12 hours later. It doesn't let you choose who appears in your feed.
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Sara Morrison
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@SaraJBenincasa I worked at Subway and they stocked the Lay's Olestra chips. what a time to be alive
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@ashleyfeinberg he wishes he had those cheekbones
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remember when there was a pandemic everyone needed the internet to basically survive and all the FCC could do was beg companies to lower their broadband prices/not shut off services for non-payment? I remember.
@jbarro
Josh Barro
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Net Neutrality panic was the most insane panic. What does it do to the credibility of the media when people are told over and over that a policy poses a grave danger and in fact it turns out to have been basically unimportant?
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Your meaningful work and important mission still comes with a poop emoji auto-reply.
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Linda Yaccarino
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When you have a mission like Twitter -- you need to make big moves to keep strengthening the platform. This work is meaningful and on-going. Here’s more insight on our work to ensure the authenticity of our user base. 👇
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Sara Morrison
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me, a New Yorker: my god how could this happen to us me, an antitrust reporter: once again we see the inevitable result of unchecked corporate consolidation on small businesses and consumers
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Sara Morrison
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vox populi vox do-over
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Elon Musk
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Sorry, too many options. Will redo poll.
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Sara Morrison
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When you’ve lost taboola you’ve lost everything
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Check My Ads
2 years
CONFIRMED: @taboola has cut ties with Russian state propaganda outlet, RT(.)com. 🐾
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Sara Morrison
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@oneunderscore__ Good times for @diamondpetfood . this is the kind of content you want your brand to be associated with!
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Sara Morrison
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Google banned an SDK that was caught (indirectly) selling location data to the government. Researchers keep finding it in Google Play Store apps anyway.
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Sara Morrison
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@Bobby4Brooklyn @amazon @FedEx @UPS @jessicaramos Bobby if you do this I will stay in your district long enough to vote against you and then I will move to Yonkers. YONKERS.
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Sara Morrison
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Are you working remotely now because of #coronavirus ? Is your employer making you use activity tracking software? What do you think about it? I want to hear from you for a story! Email opensourced @vox .com or DM me here (from your personal device).
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Sara Morrison
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My favorite thing about these WaPo tiktoks is how much fun everyone seems to be having in them.
@davejorgenson
Washington Post Universe Guy
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Don’t do these things while traveling
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Sara Morrison
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oof, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin getting a shoutout in Jan 6 insurrectionist sentencing docs
@ryanjreilly
Ryan J. Reilly
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“I was thirsty for news that wasn’t being censored. I listened to Tim Pool, Disaffected Liberal, Dave Reuben… Gateway, the Federalist, Zero Hedge, and Gray Zone. I was reading them for balance. They were willing to cover things that were more taboo.”
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Sara Morrison
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I'm still looking for people who are now working from home and whose employers have installed tracking software on their computers to see what they're doing at all times. Want to talk to me for a story? Email opensourced @vox .com or DM me here (from your personal device).
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Sara Morrison
1 year
looks like shit
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Sara Morrison
1 year
$200 million wow cool anyway please donate to @vox_union @thrillistunion and @thedodounion 's layoff fund
@claireatki
Claire Atkinson - Subscribe to The Media Mix
1 year
EXCLUSIVE: Vox Media is in talks to raise $200 million as it considers asset sales and acquisitions...written with @Lmoses via @businessinsider
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Sara Morrison
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@SaraJBenincasa I guess I should also add that employees got unlimited free chips
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Sara Morrison
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@BrandyLJensen big University of Guelph energy here
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Sara Morrison
3 years
update on the Walgreens covid test data leak story! The confirmation pages are now behind an authentication screen, even though Walgreens initially said that wasn't necessary.
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Sara Morrison
4 years
Why is the official NYC subway account retweeting Piers Fucking Morgan into my timeline
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Sara Morrison
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Also thank you so much @vox_union for a contract that will ensure I can still feed my dog for a while yet. She is a hungry girl.
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