Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: X set up a 10-person team to help hit $100M in US political ad spend in 2024 to offset revenue losses, a goal that industry executives are skeptical of  —  Plans for new political ads team to hit $100mn in sales ahead of US presidential election are met with industry scepticism Lees verder op Tech Meme

ProPublica: Analysis of 2,000 misleading Israel-Hamas war X posts, viewed 500M times: verified users posting debunked claims are thriving and Community Notes isn’t scaling  —  Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism … “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Investors are spending hundreds of millions on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that FTX’s new leaders will recover funds that Sam Bankman-Fried misappropriated  —  Investors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that the firm’s new leaders will recover … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paresh Dave / Wired: Interviews with 20 current and former Meta and Google staff say FTC consent decrees blocked some user data harvesting, but they are now outdated and inadequate  —  Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Miami-based Bird files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $100M to $500M in liabilities; the NYSE began delisting the e-scooter rental company in September 2023  —  The Miami, Florida based company listed assets and liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million in a court filing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Tobin / Reuters: The UK Supreme Court rules that AI can’t be a patent “inventor”, denying a US computer scientist’s bid for two patents for an AI’s creations, in a landmark case  —  A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created … Lees verder op Tech Meme