Monthly Archives: August 2022

Opioid addiction treatment is collateral damage in online prescription backlash

Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Pandemic-era rules around telemedicine have been a huge boost to efforts to prevent opioid overdoses in the US. But those rules are also how controversial startup companies like Cerebral were able to prescribe Adderall and Xanax to huge numbers of people — and efforts to stem that flood of…

Go read this report on ByteDance employees with ties to Chinese state media

TikTok logo | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hundreds of employees at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance used to work for Chinese state media outlets — and more than a dozen apparently still do, Forbes reports. Forbes surveyed LinkedIn profiles of ByteDance and TikTok employees and found that 300 people had previously worked for…

Musk wants Twitter to identify employees who calculate spam percentage

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Carol Yepes) Elon Musk’s lawyers want to question the Twitter employees responsible for calculating spam-account estimates, and they claim that Twitter is hiding these potential witnesses, Bloomberg reported yesterday. Musk on Wednesday filed a proposed order requesting that Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick compel Twitter “to produce discovery from specific…