Davey Alba
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Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo /
https://daveyalba.com
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NEW: My colleagues & I analyzed nearly 1.3k hours of footage (>2k videos) from nine wildly popular podcasters and streamers on YouTube to understand how they helped lift Trump to power. Now that he's back in office, the broadcasters are well-positioned to help build support for his political agenda.
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How Popular YouTubers Pushed Young Male Voters Toward Trump
How podcasters like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul turned young men, a once apolitical demographic, into a massively powerful voting bloc
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczNzU1ODA1NCwiZXhwIjoxNzM4MTYyODU0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTUUhRVDFUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.GsfUMyUBAmYSDrhZnFpIDBs7BX2TjK4tcDg0IXDRKpM
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NPR
1 day ago
Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.
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ICC charges former Philippine President Duterte crimes against humanity
Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.
https://n.pr/3W7u27i
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Kwame Opam
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Speaking over a radio, the federal agent who told police that Villegas GonzĂĄlez tried to use his car as a weapon said his partner had suffered âa left knee injury and some lacerations to his hands.â âNothing major,â the injured agent said.
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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ICE officer said his injuries were 'nothing major' after deadly shooting near Chicago, video shows
The immigration agentâs partner said he suffered a âknee injury" and "some lacerations to his hands,â according to police body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. But the feds reported h...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/09/22/ice-officer-injuries-nothing-major-deadly-franklin-park-shooting-mexican-immigrant-chicago-video
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Zahra Hirji
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This story isn't just a look back at what happened last hurricane season. It also looks forward at the threat today.
bsky.app/profile/zhir...
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Zahra Hirji
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Oh, did I mention: We published all of the hundreds of FOIA docs with this story. Now you can look through them yourself:
assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Jason Leopold
6 days ago
NEW: More than 500 pages of
#FOIA
docs
@zhirji.bsky.social
@davey.bsky.social
& I obtained from FEMA detail previously unreported threats against personnel in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene & Milton, including the swatting of then-FEMA Director Deanne Criswell đ
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New docs obtained via FOIA reveal how the personal attacks to FEMA staff last hurricane season were much worse than previously known, including swatting & doxxing of officials. Story
@bloomberg.com
, w/
@davey.bsky.social
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
(gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chaos Inside FEMA as Death Threats Distract From Hurricane Response
Internal documents show how online conspiracies and personal attacks disrupted FEMA during back-to-back hurricanes last year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/chaos-inside-fema-as-conspiracies-and-death-threats-distract-from-hurricanes?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1ODIwMzc0NiwiZXhwIjoxNzU4ODA4NTQ2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMlNDNFFHUTFZUUUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFMkUzODg2QzgzREM0NTUxOEVFM0M2MDRGN0ZBRTlGMyJ9.gzBj0cvfToYGFTaK064ns4R2-pXc03ATBUMvrs6rs-Y
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Elderest Millennial
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ââThe profit-driven platform model, where sensational falsehoods outperform factual updates in emergencies, ensures this problem persists across political cycles and it can put lives at risk,â said Callum Hood, head of research at the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate.â
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NEW: Bloomberg obtained 100s of pages of agency emails & other docs via FOIA, shedding new light on how disaster-related misinfo affects the govt's emergency response, sucks up resources & puts staff at risk. with
@zhirji.bsky.social
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Dave Lee
7 days ago
Important detail here as we think about AI deals for the long haul -- Reddit looking for dynamic payment based on use in answers (in addition to payments for training)
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Scoop: Reddit is in talks with Google to strike a new AI content dealâone that would get the platform paid more for its data, which has become crucial for training Google's AI & powering search results w/
@rileyraygriffin.bsky.social
&
@shiringhaffary.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Zahra Hirji
16 days ago
The Trump administration, from the CDC to EPA to NOAA, is going to war with established climate science. I, along w/@blkahn.bsky.social
@eroston.bsky.social
, try to capture the big picture of what's already happened & what's at stake. Gift link
@bloomberg.com
:
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-trump-policies-climate-science/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NzM3ODUyMSwiZXhwIjoxNzU3OTgzMzIxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMkFGT0pHUTFZVDUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFMkUzODg2QzgzREM0NTUxOEVFM0M2MDRGN0ZBRTlGMyJ9.xUPocMY76shInX5mFRABv2tXbye0DpbS4tDiWU2wVJ4
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New analysis: Google avoided the most severe outcomes in its search antitrust case because of the growing threat from generative AI. The result is a letdown for many who hoped for accountability for Big Tech in a landmark legal battle. From me,
@sisco.bsky.social
&
@leahnylen.bsky.social
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Google Saved From Breakup in Antitrust Case by AI Threat
Alphabet Inc.âs Google, found by the US last year to have a monopoly in online search, avoided the most severe outcomes because the judge in the case concluded that its business was already under a gr...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/google-saved-from-breakup-in-antitrust-case-by-ai-threat?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NjkzNDgzOSwiZXhwIjoxNzU3NTM5NjM5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMjEySFdHT1lNVEkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.bJ0ATQqmrwAJ3g-muyBHnYlFGHNQ8jh5WJDxgNtQ8ZU
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Google's lobbyists are a major force in D.C., yet they're not at the top of the spending charts. A colleague has a great story explaining the workaround
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Sarah Myers West
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The study finds that in 2022 over 26% of systems reviewed gave a disclaimed that they arenât providing medical advice. Now? Less than 1%.
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Aaron Bady
3 months ago
A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Mahmood Mamdani ¡ The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were âinvestorsâ,...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n19/mahmood-mamdani/the-asian-question
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A little bit of news from me and
@julialove.bsky.social
: Google isnât pushing through with its Quick View Recipe feature, which food bloggers had feared could erode their search traffic
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
3 months ago
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Josh Sisco
4 months ago
And its a wrap on the DOJ's Google search antitrust case, as closing arguments end. Next stop likely August with a ruling that could force the company to sell Chrome, license critical data, and bar $20b + in annual payments to Apple w
@davey.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Google Search Judge Zeroes In on AI Power in Trial Resolution
The federal judge who will decide how to limit Googleâs monopoly in search is considering its advantage in artificial intelligence, and aiming to minimize harm to the other players in the market with ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/google-search-judge-zeroes-in-on-ai-power-in-trial-resolution?srnd=undefined
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Zahra Hirji
4 months ago
Trump stopped mentioning the hazard mitigation grant program in major disaster declarations, so I started looking into what was happening. Here's what I found by asking each state asking about the status of their recent hazard mitigation requests. Full story here:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Kurt Wagner
4 months ago
đ¨ New Businessweek Feature đ¨ What is behind Mark Zuckerberg's rightward swing toward President Trump? I'd wager it's less about personal politics, and more about a finely tuned sense of self-preservation... w/
@rileyraygriffin.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back?
Metaâs CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and itâs not clear how much he has to show for it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-26/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-bets-on-trump-but-maga-is-skeptical?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0ODI5NzgyNywiZXhwIjoxNzQ4OTAyNjI3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTV1ZaT0VEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGQTUwMzI1N0EwREI0MkNCOTNGM0YyODVENEIzRDNCMSJ9.3mR3jpUoz0zHV-uRKLNndJ-P0DRzveRCoRiZf5rbIJk
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Renee DiResta
4 months ago
âThis is a man who wears many different costumes,â she continued. âNow his new costume is MMA-fighting or whatever, free speechâwe donât know what the next costume is going to be, but it will be something different. âItâs whatever gets him closest to power.â
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back?
Metaâs CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and itâs not clear how much he has to show for it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-26/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-bets-on-trump-but-maga-is-skeptical
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New: As Google search head Liz Reid announces at
#googleio
that AI Mode is rolling out to all US users today, Alphabet shares drop... Follow along with my &
@julialove.bsky.social
's live I/O coverage here
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Alphabetâs Pichai Says Google Bringing Products to Market Faster
Alphabet Inc.âs Google will bring products to market faster to keep pace with new rivals in the artificial intelligence age.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/alphabet-s-pichai-says-google-bringing-products-to-market-faster?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0Nzc2MzcwNywiZXhwIjoxNzQ4MzY4NTA3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTV0tLQUJEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.Qf6LpAf9En4uio23dc32GG7tAx1f6Lh9SHC40Ei6PkU
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Craig Silverman
4 months ago
I left my job at ProPublica about a month ago. Here's why: I've teamed up with
@mantzarlis.com
to launch
indicator.media
, a new publication dedicated to exposing digital deception and to equipping professionals and the public with knowledge and skills to investigate it. Sign up for free below!
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Indicator
Indicator is your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception.
https://Indicator.media
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New: Wrote about a Google trial exhibit that the public seemed to have paid little attention to. The document shows Google had a âhard red lineâ and would require all publishers who wanted their content to show up in the search page to also be used to feed AI features. with
@julialove.bsky.social
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Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search
Company drew âhard red lineâ around requiring web publishers to participate in AI search, document says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/google-gave-sites-little-choice-in-using-data-for-ai-search?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NzcwMDQ4NCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ4MzA1Mjg0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTV0lYRjRUMEcxS1kwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.AFoMrbsSXvwk6DhNJ4RyYciv9lxZLMienNYfohYWUuo
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Sarah Zhang
4 months ago
I spent the past several months with the family of one patient in the study, Ian, who was injured in a car crash in 1986. His mother has never stopped believing he could understand her. Today in
@theatlantic.com
, Ian's story:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/brain-injury-consciousness-science/682579/
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Sarah Zhang
4 months ago
𧾠Last year, I came across one of the most harrowing studies I've ever read. It found that 1 in 4 unresponsive brain-injury patientsâmany considered vegetativeâmight be cognitively aware but trapped inside their bodies. Could this be true? What did it mean?
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Stefanos Chen
5 months ago
The definitive analysis of congestion pricing to date: itâs working in just about every way we could think up! Huge team effort, led by
@emmbadger.bsky.social
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Dare Obasanjo
5 months ago
During its antitrust trial Google confirmed that websites opting out of AI crawling only affects Gemini. Google search still uses your content to power AI overviews. The only way to opt out of your content showing up in AI overviews in search is to opt out of being shown in Google search results.
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Google Can Train Search AI With Web Content Even After Opt-Out
Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen to opt out of training Googleâs AI products, a vice-president of pro...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-03/google-can-train-search-ai-with-web-content-even-after-opt-out
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New from me in DC: The DOJ has recalled a 15-year-old deal in which Google voluntarily shared search data with a third party, Yahoo Japan. That 2010 deal formed the "foundation" for DOJ's data-sharing remedy proposal in the ongoing search antitrust case, lawyers said.
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US Presses for Google to Share Data by Citing Yahoo Japan Deal
US antitrust enforcers reached back to a deal Google struck 15 years ago to argue that the Alphabet Inc. unit should once again share information with third parties, this time to end its illegal monop...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-02/us-presses-for-google-to-share-data-by-citing-yahoo-japan-deal?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjIxMzczMSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2ODE4NTMxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVk44MlJUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.89aMBX1ORZbxEyzgtXTbtgHDwhx7_Uy8qN4-XIqtpAE
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Kai Kupferschmidt
5 months ago
Terminating the grants to study misinformation is âan overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,â says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. âWho other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?â đ§Ş
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trumpâs team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research
Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-s-team-often-accused-spreading-misinformation-slashes-misinformation-research
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Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen
5 months ago
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@davey.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Google Eyes Gemini-iPhone AI Deal This Year, Pichai Tells Court
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said in court proceedings Wednesday that he hopes that Gemini, his companyâs AI service, will be added as a built-in option for iPhones this year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-30/google-hopes-for-gemini-deal-for-apple-ai-this-year-ceo-pichai-says?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Googleâs Pichai Calls US Remedies âDe Factoâ Spinoff of Search
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolizes online search that a Justice Department proposal to share search data with rivals would be ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-30/google-s-pichai-calls-us-remedies-de-facto-spinoff-of-search?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy
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NEW: Pichai is testifying in the DOJ's search remedies antitrust case today. Here's my and
@leahnylen.bsky.social
's first take. The Google CEO called the DOJ's proposed remedies a "de facto" spinoff of search.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Googleâs Pichai Calls US Remedies âDe Factoâ Spinoff of Search
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolizes online search that a Justice Department proposal to share search data with rivals would be ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-30/google-s-pichai-calls-us-remedies-de-facto-spinoff-of-search?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjAyNDk3NSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2NjI5Nzc1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVkk0R0NUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.0NeUDFfL1YcL1sruqNkn5ADVzYSAkliVKm_hljwsO3o
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Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen
5 months ago
DOJ rested its case against Google today in the remedies hearing over how to fix competition in online search. A recap by me and
@davey.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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DOJ Google Antitrust Case Wraps With Generative AI in Spotlight
The US Justice Departmentâs proposed fixes for Googleâs illegal monopoly in the online search market are more likely to spur competition than the remedies offered by the company, an economist called b...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-29/doj-google-antitrust-case-wraps-with-generative-ai-in-spotlight?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy
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the one and only
@amandahess.bsky.social
has written the most moving book about "having a child in the digital age"âbut it's really about so much more. it's a meditation on the oppressiveness of tech, the fragility of humans, the miracle & bittersweetness of life... i would love for you to read it
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New from me: Here's a fun lil earnings scoop đ¨ There was an $8 billion increase in profit in Alphabet's latest report that was just nagging and nagging at me. The accounting didn't make sense. Finally got to the bottom of it: the boost came from unrealized gains from a 2015 investment in SpaceX.
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Cory Barker đ
5 months ago
New ep of NEWS OVER NOISE: We chat with
@davey.bsky.social
and
@leonyin.org
about their
@bloomberg.com
reporting on right-wing "lifestyle" podcasters:
newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/the...
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The New Mainstream Media: How Lifestyle Podcasts are Becoming the Go-To Information Source for American Men - News Literacy Initiative
These days, more people are getting their news from podcasters and influencers than ever before. What does this mean for democracy? On this episode of Noise Ove
https://newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/the-new-mainstream-media-how-lifestyle-podcasts-are-becoming-the-go-to-information-source-for-american-men
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I remember when Twitter employees who criticized Musk on the platform and in meetings during the takeover period were fired, so... this tracks
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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Brian Merchant
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This is such a disaster. Small publishers still utterly rely on Google for traffic and discovery, and Overview by all counts seems to be decimating both.
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Julia Love
6 months ago
Google says AI Overviews drive more traffic to a diverse mix of publishers. But it has never shared data to back up that claim. @daveyalba & I spoke to 25 creators who painted a different picture. Several are out of business. One is on food stamps. Our latest:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling âBetrayedâ
In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her familyâs business grow.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NDA0Njg2MCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ0NjUxNjYwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVFVFQkpEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMEJDQkE5REUzM0U0M0M0ODBBNzNCMjFFQzdGQ0Q2RiJ9.g2k5MkLbRjs0jZn4hmgr2_MSVAgFTYMd1XHPFJ2ypnA
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NEW: Spoke to 25 small publishers about the kind of impact Google's AI changes to search has had on their businesses. Things don't look goodânot for the publishers, and not for the quality of information out on the open web, which ironically Google itself relies on. Gift link:
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Joe Weisenthal
6 months ago
This is now the worst three-day performance for the S&P 500 since October 1987.
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Mark Bergen
6 months ago
great yarn from
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still for the brutal kicker
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6 months ago
Big changes are underway for Google Search, the internetâs most popular product, and the web may never be the same
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Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
Big changes are underway for the internetâs most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-24/google-s-ai-search-overhaul-racing-chatgpt-for-the-web-s-future?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=business
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Raphael Satter
6 months ago
New: The 19-year-old technologist who has become one of the best known members of Elon Muskâs US DOGE Service was providing digital infrastructure to a cybercrime ring as recently as two years ago.
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Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
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Josh Sternberg
6 months ago
"Pichai, whoâs said that AI is a bigger deal than fire or electricity, says the world is on the verge of a radical transformation in the way it interacts with information."
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Max Chafkin
6 months ago
this, from
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@julialove.bsky.social
's story on Google's AI efforts, is pretty stunning.
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Techmeme
6 months ago
A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
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Gisele Navarro
6 months ago
âBecause Googleâs AI is trained on the web, its answers are a kind of remixed version of the web itself, while also distorting the economy that gave rise to the modern internet by potentially cutting the sites out of the equation entirely.â ~
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