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Mike Masnick

The logo of social media platform Bluesky. (Graphic by The Desk)

Bluesky appoints Mike Masnick to board of directors

An emerging tech platform convinces a long-time watchdog of the industry to switch sides.

Techdirt will stop embedding tweets in articles

Techdirt says it will stop embedding tweets because Twitter has become an erratic and unpredictable place.

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