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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
TikTok won't commit to stopping US data flows to China: https://t.co/OWPFPKPeY4 — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
SEC Chair Gary Gensler: "Of the nearly 10,000 tokens in the crypto market, I believe the vast majority are securities." That's from his prepared testimony ahead of an oversight hearing before Senate Banking today: https://t.co/gov48GDRYj — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Coinbase says it will start using its app to support political candidates rated as pro-cryptocurrency and to help those candidates mobilize voters: https://t.co/JXanF7evKx — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong
1/ Starting today, Coinbase will begin integrating our crypto policy efforts right into our app. These will help ou… https://t.co/gaCOSNVEuo
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Almost everything else was a waste of time in terms of breaking new ground. The rest was good for illustrating the meta surrounding these events, where you had execs largely sticking to talking points about policy design. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
There was also a useful but ultimately fruitless attempt by Sen. Peters to find out how many engineers (not content moderators) are devoted to trust and safety at each company. None of the companies could answer despite what Peters said was months of questioning by the committee. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
That is about as on-point as the hearing ever got to ground truth on China, IMO. The stuff about TikTok employees' political affiliations and its denials of the BuzzFeed story are much murkier; TikTok could/would only speak about TikTok and we never really got to ByteDance. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Second, Sen. Portman bluntly asked TikTok to stop letting US data be viewed by individuals in China, and TikTok could not commit to that. It promised that its talks with the USG would "satisfy all national security concerns." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Takeaways from this afternoon's panel with tech execs. First: Twitter could not tell Sen. Ossoff it has never misled the FTC. The testifying exec was a product exec, not a compliance or legal exec, but it is the closest Congress has been able to get as far an answer on this. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
(And then, as a follow up, to what extent that influence, if any, ends up influencing TikTok.) — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Ossoff asking whether TikTok is influenced by the Chinese government and Pappas says categorically no. Lawmakers keep coming back to this angle, but seem to keep missing an important link that TikTok seems to keep using as a loophole: What is China's influence on **ByteDance**? — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Ossoff asks Twitter whether it has ever "willfully misrepresented facts to the FTC." "I can tell you, Twitter disputes the allegations" by Mudge, says Twitter's Jay Sullivan. Ossoff notes that is not a denial of his question. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
It feels like Pappas is leaning extremely heavily on the corporate structural distinction between TikTok and ByteDance in many of her answers. "We have never shared data with the Chinese government"; "We have also said under no circumstances would we give that data to China." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Pappas instead commits that "our final agreement with the US government will satisfy all national security concerns." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
TikTok's Vanessa Pappas twice declines to commit to Sen. Portman's direct request that TikTok "cut off all data and metadata flows to China, China-based TikTok employees, ByteDance employees or any other party located in China." — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Truth Social is reportedly restricting the ability to see full follower lists, in a move researchers say could benefit spam bots and "obscure slowing growth" of the platform: https://t.co/B4juocWNqO — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
@viaCristiano "bUy BiTcOin" — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
We're about to start the second panel in today's Senate Homeland hearing involving tech platforms. Watch live here: https://t.co/GA9QclFJet — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
California's attorney general is suing Amazon over allegedly anticompetitive pricing contracts, alleging those agreements with third-party sellers end up keeping prices artificially high because they prevent rivals from undercutting Amazon listings: https://t.co/w7cr2UgErQ — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
On one hand, this makes it much more than a "tech company problem" and recontextualizes it as a broader market failure. On the other hand, it isn't like platforms lack agency, according to Brian Boland, pointing to Meta's decision to disband its responsible innovation team. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
More generally, the execs highlighted how financial and cultural pressures disincentivize platforms from further elevating trust and safety. From who leads meetings to how you get promoted, everything within tech companies favors engineering talent and priorities, they said. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Roetter also acknowledged that as a senior engineer, he would have had access to Twitter user data (but never used it), which is also consistent with what Zatko has claimed (though you would also probably expect an exec to have higher privileges than rank-and-file engineers). — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
That's consistent with testimony yesterday from Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, who highlighted concerns about Twitter's possible infiltration by Chinese and other spies. The former engineering SVP, Alex Roetter, was there much earlier than Zatko, from 2010-2016. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
A couple of key takeaways from this morning's Senate Homeland hearing with former Twitter and Facebook execs. First, "nothing I saw" in Twitter's HR vetting seemed "designed to counteract the threat model of governments inserting spies," said its former SVP of engineering. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
That is… quite the walkback https://t.co/ccj4Fxkatl https://t.co/D9K909Lajb — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
RT @evacide: I feel strongly that Twitter's lackadaisical approach to insider threat has not gotten enough attention. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Some of the biggest takeaways from today’s Twitter whistleblower hearing, from @claresduffy and me: https://t.co/YrwMo2ISpG — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
What a day. Who needs a drink? 🍻 — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
RT @kevincollier: My latest: Bulk text messaging — a tactic that's hard for individuals to filter, increasingly common, and impossible for… — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
@digiphile No, it’s just a rehash of their previous statement. — PolitiTweet.org
Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung
Just in: Twitter responds to today's Twitter whistleblower hearing. https://t.co/l9NM1ot6gg https://t.co/t90k5WrfAB — PolitiTweet.org
