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Alexandra S. Levine

@alexlevine.bsky.social
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Tech reporter at Forbes covering social media; past Politico + NYT

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Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social · 01/06/2023
The top Republican on the Senate Intel Committee has asked DOJ to investigate statements that the TikTok CEO made to Congress, in light of recent reporting by Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevin…
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Exclusive: TikTok CEO Should Be Investigated By DOJ, Senator Says
The top Republican on the Senate Intel Committee has called on the Justice Department to "investigate whether Chew committed perjury" in his testimony before Congress.
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Richard Nieva @richardnieva.bsky.social · 31/05/2023
For the magazine (my first cover story!), we profiled Lisa Su, CEO of semiconductor company AMD, who has led one of the greatest comebacks in Silicon Valley history. Now she's taking on Nvidia, the top dog in AI chips. With my colleague Iain Martin.
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Lisa Su Saved AMD. Now She Wants Nvidia's AI Crown
AMD's CEO orchestrated one of the great turnarounds in Silicon Valley history, driving the dying semiconductor maker's stock price up nearly 30-fold in less than a decade. Now she's preparing for battle in the coming AI revolution—and she expects to keep winning.
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Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social · 30/05/2023
NEW: TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial info of its biggest stars on servers in China. The CEO told Congress “American data has always been stored in Virginia and Singapore.” www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevin…
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TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 30/05/2023
If you've ever been paid by TikTok — as a creator, or a vendor, or a business partner — your financial info (SSN, tax ID, etc) may have been stored in China. From @alexlevine.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevin…
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Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social · 05/05/2023
NEW: Forbes obtained internal ByteDance documents showing *hundreds* of lists of “sensitive words” it tracks across its social media apps. We’ve published them in full here: www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevin…
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The Words TikTok Parent ByteDance May Be Watching You Say
A trove of internal ByteDance documents reveals how TikTok's parent company tracks “sensitive words” mentioned on its social media apps, with the potential to shape high stakes discourse on global politics, culture and society.
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Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
TikTok and ByteDance are collecting data on the “hit rate” of "sensitive" or "prohibited" words—including info about the U.S. users posting them. That could be dangerous: www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevin…
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Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
New: Forbes found the below vocabulary lists in ByteDance's "sensitive words" tool that is run by staff in China and dictates what users can and cannot see on its platforms. 50+ lists in this tool have “TikTok” or "US" in their names. TikTok denied these ones had ever applied to TikTok:
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Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
New: ByteDance's "sensitive words" tool run by staff in China appears to use vocabulary lists to detect or suppress posts about everything from American TikTok competitors to marginalized Uighurs to Trump: bit.ly/427bTHK
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
ByteDance has “sensitive word lists,” with names like “Trump Directed Prohibited Words” and “Special prohibited words for Xi and Peng” Over 50 of the lists explicitly mention TikTok or the US. TikTok denies they’ve ever been used. From the increíble @alexlevine.bsky.social
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TikTok Parent ByteDance’s ‘Sensitive Words’ Tool Monitors Discussion Of China, Trump, Uyghurs
ByteDance appears to be using word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube to marginalized Uyghurs to 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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Alexandra S. Levine @alexlevine.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
Is this thing on?
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