It’s never been entirely clear why Dario and the other Anthropic co-founders left OpenAI. I set out to find out. Just published via @WSJ wsj.com/tech/ai/the-de…

Breitbart was a source of constant consternation inside Facebook, internal docs show, with employees demanding “Get Breitbart out of News Tab” and begging Facebook to kick it out of Facebook Audience Network w/ @JeffHorwitz wsj.com/articles/faceb… via @WSJ More senior employees often pushed back against these calls, arguing that any steps aimed at removing Breitbart “would be a very difficult policy discussion.”

“Many parties…worry about the long term effects on democracy,” Facebook researchers wrote in an internal report on how the company’s 2018 algorithm change incentivized more divisive political discourse. My deep dive w/ @JeffHorwitz wsj.com/articles/faceb… via @WSJ Political parties told Facebook that its 2018 algorithm change forced them to push out more outrageous and negative messages to get distribution—in some cases changing their policy positions so they resonated more on the platform.

When regulators blessed Google’s purchase of DoubleClick in 2008, they warned they’d step in if Google tied its ad products together in anticompetitive ways. Publishing and ad execs now say Google is doing just that. Here’s how: wsj.com/articles/how-g… Even as they compete—increasingly unsuccessfully—against Google properties like search and YouTube for ad dollars, virtually every major news publisher you can think of Google’s tools to place ads.