You know you’ve screwed up when you’ve simultaneously angered the White House, the TIME Person of the Year, and pop culture’s most rabid fanbase. That’s what happened last […]
Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the fediverse
The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky […]
Disney retracts ‘Steamboat Willie’ YouTube copyright claim now that it’s public domain
Disney has retracted a copyright claim it made on a YouTube video, publicly acknowledging —however tacitly — that ‘Steamboat Willie’ is a public domain work.
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the ‘fediverse‘ — the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions […]
Trust & Safety Tycoon lets you simulate the most agonizing job in tech
If you think you could’ve deflected Twitter’s blue check impersonation debacle, then boy do we have the game for you! Techdirt has released the very fun and not […]