If you're going to sell your face to the AI company (and probably be humiliated) at least ask for more $$$.

Selling one's likeness for a mere $500 and having it talk about its sexual preferences while hawking fiber supplements is like a sad plot device that I would expect from a good science fiction novel. But it's real, via @sapna.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...

I wrote about people who sold their likenesses to TikTok for AI-fueled advertisements. Marketers have been able to use their “avatars” to promote all sorts of products - and several regret the work. The folks I spoke with were paid as little as $500 for it www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...

“When it’s time again to pick up that phone and incinerate a few more seconds of my one life on earth, more often than not, I shovel them into Reddit.” @jwherrman.bsky.social spot on as usual! nymag.com/intelligence...

will be covering the Cannes ad/tech/media confab this year in June... plz DM / email me if there are things i shouldn't miss while there!

one of my fav stories i wrote from this spring — how agencies are trying to train college athletes as the next big group of influencers on TikTok and Instagram: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/b...

scoop from my colleague Michael Grynbaum: the exec producer of 60 Minutes said he would resign from the program because he had lost his journalistic independence www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

loved this wild / unexpected dispatch from a Natal Conference from @emmagoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/s...

TikTok & Reddit are filled with people worrying about the new tariffs on Shein and Temu packages set to go into effect on May 2 — and price hikes on April 25. the alarm reflects the deep inroads the apps have made into American shopping habits in recent years: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...

i don't eat a ton of meat but these paragraphs are making me consider going full vegetarian... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

with another TikTok sale-or-ban deadline looming on April 5, the company is running a zillion ads, including one that shares the story of a young woman who found a kidney through the app... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/t...

Oracle met with top congressional aides yesterday to talk about how it plans to work with TikTok in coming weeks, as the April 5 deadline for a deal approaches: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/t... (scooplet with david mccabe)

I saw this on 40th St a week or so ago and it has lived rent free in my head ever since! For the Bradlees hive… I know you’re out there

Breaking News: An unvaccinated child died of measles in Texas, officials said, the first known death from an outbreak that began in January.

Charging this puppy up to make sure it still works for Flip Phone February. (If you make up a movement, you gotta follow through on it: www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/t...)

But when he opened his eyes, he saw that he was not out of danger. “I looked up, and I was underneath the 1 train,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/n... a must-read by @katierosman.bsky.social

NEW: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban-or-sale law set to go into effect on Sunday supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The CEO of TikTok, a firm set to be banned in the US on Sunday because of its Chinese government ownership, plans to attend Trump’s inauguration the next day and has been invited to sit in a position of honor on the dais. Maggie Haberman @sapna.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

TikTok's CEO was invited to attend Trump's inauguration and sit in a position of honor on the dais: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u... TikTok's inroads with Trump may be the gambit that helps the co (1) avoid complying with a new law forcing its sale to a non-Chinese company (2) avoid a ban on Jan 19

Napster... Kazaa...Limewire...RIP

New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

Update: After publication, Meta contacted me to say that the company made a mistake in its internal guidelines reported here, and “Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17 year old girl)" is in fact not permitted. They told me that the rest of the examples stand.

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

TikTok might face a ban on Jan. 19 (pending a Supreme Court hearing/any divestment talks) — here's how creators and marketers are preparing for an event that would reshape the social media landscape in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b...

girl SAME! (completely horrified/entranced by this story about a highly successful rat-killing dog in NYC) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/n...

love this story by @jessicatesta.bsky.social on Kylie Kelce's hit podcast... which i truly wouldn't have known about otherwise but i think i might kind of like?! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/b...

NEW: Supreme Court will hear the TikTok case on Jan. 10. for now, the court didn't grant an injunction that would freeze the law. a giant TBD... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...

Endlessly terrible news cycle around this company. Previously: Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide? www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/t... An AI companion suggested he kill his parents. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

very disturbing read about how smartphones are fueling massively spectated brawls in schools around the country. do kids really need iPhones on them every second of the school day? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/t...

This is a great On Point segment about the limits of the surveillance state in the context of the hunt for the UnitedHealthcare shooter: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024...

"Rachel Handlin is possibly the first person with Down syndrome to receive an M.F.A., and one of just a few to hold a bachelor’s. Her first solo show features her portraits of others like her." a lovely story: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/s...

NEW: TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block the sale-or-ban law it's facing down after a similar request was denied by a DC court on Friday. it's asking for a ruling by Jan 6 so it has time to wind down its US operations if needed nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u... (with @adamliptak.bsky.social)

new: DC court denies TikTok's request for a temporary freeze of the sale-or-ban law. this surprised several legal experts i've been in touch with. now it'll try its luck with the Supreme Court, as Jan. 19 looms: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...

today: the House committee that shaped the TikTok sale-or-ban law warns the CEOs of TikTok, Google and Apple to stop distributing the app by Jan 19 lest a sale occurs selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-... Apple hasn't responded, Google declined, when asked by NYT about compliance this wk

Full report here by @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/unit...

UnitedHealth officials are pointing to their CEO's murder as a reason they cannot comment on an unrelated @propublica.org investigation into the company's practice of strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism. "We are in mourning," a spokesperson wrote.

glad the @nytimes.com got this one RIGHT www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/s...

This is literally the staff of DealBook, an NYT newsletter. It isn’t 7 people on this story. 1 person wrote on this briefly for a finance newsletter with tons of other topics in here. Plenty to criticize in journalism but this is intentionally devoid of context / ignores lots of other NYT coverage

I have kind of been following the TikTok story but this @sapna.bsky.social piece really brought me up to speed. I feel i can go to all my weekend functions and gatherings as an expert: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

Quoted in this @nytimes.com story by @sapna.bsky.social on TikTok's next steps, gaming out one possible scenario at the Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

(FOR NOW) a court upholds a ban on TikTok that would cut off the service to U.S. users Jan 19 if it isn't sold from ByteDance via @sapna.bsky.social And I say "for now" b/c who knows if TikTok is saved by Trump, who has hinted he wouldn't uphold the ban. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

New: TikTok could be banned in the United States as of Jan. 19 — if ByteDance doesn't sell it. court ruling just came out in support of this year's landmark law calling for a sale or ban of the app. now to see if the Supreme Court takes it up. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

in laymen's terms: TikTok lost its challenge of the landmark law demanding a sale or ban of the app by Jan. 19. story coming...

could be a huge day for TikTok. a DC appeals court is expected to decide *today* on the constitutionality of the landmark law calling for a sale or ban of TikTok by Jan. 19. the losing party is expected to appeal to the Supreme Court (our Sept story on this: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/t...)

here's a helpful @nytimes.com starter pack if you'd like to follow my great NYT colleagues: bsky.app/starter-pack...

fitting! Oxford's word of the year for 2024: "brain rot" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/a... "which triumphed over a shortlist of contenders including "lore,” 'demure,' 'romantasy,' 'dynamic pricing' and 'slop'...."

A pro-Trump media blitz to save Hegseth's nomination is currently underway.

the NYT DealBook summit is so so good. Ken Griffin to Serena Williams to Jerome Powell?! with Bezos and Alex Cooper to come... www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12... hats off to @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @mdelamerced.bsky.social @laurenhirsch.bsky.social & the rest of the team