Vox

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As a result, Amazon’s ad business grew 58 percent in 2021 to more than $31 billion in revenue, making it the third-biggest online ad seller in the US, only trailing Google and Facebook. Along with Amazon Web Services, advertising has emerged as one of the company’s top two profit engines.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Eventually, Rivers found a fit: In August of last year, she was hired at an internet-focused research group, the NYU Ad Observatory, where another member of the Fired Five, Paul Duke, is also working. Ifeoma Ozoma in February 2021. “Every application I sent would be an immediate rejection. Not even a phone call from HR,” said Rivers.

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Vox

JANUARY 10, 2021

cannot even imagine how mad he is rn my mans phone is a paperweight [link] — rat king (@MikeIsaac) January 9, 2021. Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) January 8, 2021. As New York Times tech journalist Mike Isaac put it on Twitter : “my mans phone is a paperweight.”. Parler gets the boot over Capitol storming.

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Vox

JANUARY 21, 2021

Within days of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, outgoing President Donald Trump’s internet presence was in upheaval. All of these complicated, chaotic arguments have clouded a relatively simple fact: Deplatforming is effective at rousting extremists from mainstream internet spaces. It’s not a violation of the First Amendment.

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