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Scott Nover

Scott Nover

The Atlantic

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The Grim Reality of Banning TikTok

The U.S. government, once again, wants to ban TikTok. The app has become an introvertible force on American phones since it launched in 2016, defining...

15.03.2024 4

Time

Scott Nover

TikTok is America’s next major news source

A man stares into the camera and hits me with: “Hey everyone. Genocide is bad.” I scroll down to the next video where another guy proclaims that...

22.11.2023 3

Fast Company

Scott Nover

How chaos at OpenAI reshapes AI’s competitive landscape

Before Friday, OpenAI seemed unstoppable.  Founded in 2015, OpenAI only became a household name in the past year or so following the release of its...

18.11.2023 5

Fast Company

Scott Nover

Antitrust lawsuits are piling up for Google. Here’s how they could change the company

The heated antitrust battle between Google and the U.S. government is set to conclude in the coming days. It’s been a whirlwind 10-week bench trial,...

16.11.2023 5

Fast Company

Scott Nover

Can Donald Trump Block You on Social Media? Oh Good, the Supreme Court Has Thoughts.

Tweet Share Share Comment This is part of  Opening Arguments , Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court...

01.11.2023 5

Slate

Scott Nover

Why ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ will never die

The Nightmare Before Christmas is kind of an anti-Disney movie. Sure, it’s produced by Walt Disney Studios, and you can find it on the Disney ...

30.10.2023 6

Fast Company

Scott Nover

Is X worth anything these days?

One year ago, Elon Musk took over Twitter. The acquisition was the culmination of a blistering six months in which one of the world’s richest men...

27.10.2023 3

Fast Company

Scott Nover

Meta’s plan to charge users for Facebook access is a big “FU” to the E.U.

There’s a truism in tech that goes something like “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” It’s a tired phrase, but...

19.10.2023 5

Fast Company

Scott Nover

How old-fashioned hacking may have taken Clorox off store shelves for months

There’s a reason you’ve maybe been struggling to find Clorox products on store shelves: For the last two months, the consumer products giant has...

13.10.2023 1

Fast Company

Scott Nover

The Golden Bachelor is kinder, gentler, grayer reality TV

The Bachelor franchise is like many of its contestants: early 20s, desperate for attention, and growing tired of itself. In order to save it from its...

12.10.2023 2

Vox

Scott Nover

If GameStop’s new CEO flames out, he’ll have no one to blame but himself

Ryan Cohen made his name—and his fortune—at Chewy, co-founding the online pet store before, selling it to Petsmart for $3.35 billion before it...

28.09.2023 2

Quartz

Scott Nover

Donald Trump may no longer be able to do business in New York

Donald Trump’s fraud trial is set to go to trial in New York on Oct. 2, but a state supreme court justice dealt the former president a massive blow...

27.09.2023 2

Quartz

Scott Nover

How the ex-Twitter founders of Pebble plan to compete with their old employer

Pebble only has about 15,000 users, but that’s intentional. The co-founders of this new social media platform, known until earlier this week as T2,...

23.09.2023 5

Quartz

Scott Nover

Rupert Murdoch steps down from Fox and News Corp. with a screed against “elites”

With a net worth of $17 billion, Rupert Murdoch is one of the world’s richest men. And somehow, that figure undersells his influence. Murdoch, who...

21.09.2023 30

Quartz

Scott Nover

Twitter is leaning on Google for help with its advertising business

Twitter has never been a huge hit with advertisers. But under Elon Musk’s ownership, marked by a name change to X, a rollback of site rules,...

19.09.2023 1

Quartz

Scott Nover

Can TikTok conquer the American shopper?

TikTok really wants me to buy a hairbrush. This past week, one popular influencer repeatedly tried to sell me what she called “the viral TikTok...

19.09.2023 4

Quartz

Scott Nover

The US government has mounting evidence that Elon Musk violated Twitter’s data privacy agreement

When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, he became the steward of a company enmeshed in longstanding data-privacy problems with the US...

14.09.2023 1

Quartz

Scott Nover

Audiobooks: Reading allowed

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13.09.2023 1

Quartz

Scott Nover

Elon Musk is finally fighting a genuine free speech battle

In September 2022, one month before Elon Musk took over Twitter, California governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 587 into law. Dubbed by its proponents as...

13.09.2023 2

Quartz

Scott Nover

Google is moving faster than US regulators to get deepfakes disclosed in political ads

In April, the Republican National Committee (RNC) debuted an ad depicting its vision of what would happen if Joe Biden won reelection to the US...

08.09.2023 1

Quartz

Scott Nover

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