Email Fwd: Clubhouse's moment arrives

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an event in Berlin in December. (Hannibal Hanschke-Pool / Getty Images)I. Andreessen Horowitz and the backdoor pilotHey, did yo...

Elon Musk went on Clubhousethe 2015 South by Southwest festivala story about the cafe’s emergence as a hub for tech-boom dealmakingin its blog postin the sharp framing of Ben Thompsonhad recently become a general partner at A16zis releasing the conversation officially as the first episode in a new live podcast seriesbackdoor pilot— maybe the recordings should feel more like Snapchat storiesbought Anchor for $150 millionI’ve had my concerns about Clubhouse’s early inattention to moderationnow seems to be taking those concerns appropriately seriouslyMusk has been vocally skeptical about the company’s moves to stop users from buying GameStop stockEric Newcomer put ithis recent piece on A16z and its independent media ambitionsThe first was $1 billion; the second was $2.4 billiongradually letting people buy stocks again: Who’s ready for two movies about WallStreetBetsAn analysis of Apple’s new privacy and nutrition labels found a variety of misleading statementsGoogle salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviewsappeared to be yesA Google blog post incorrectly stated that Snap would be one of its primary cloud clients in Saudi Arabia, triggering human rights concerns — but apparently it wasn’t trueThe Robinhood stock mania of the past week bears more than passing resemblance to the rise of TheDonald, according to this astute analysiswell beyond itnightmareaccording to the companyReddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company monitors a previously unknown metric known as “Daily Active Shitheads.”It doesn’t matter how mad you are, you probably still won’t win your lawsuit against RobinhoodGoogle will begin allowing betting and gambling apps in more countries, including the United StatesFacebook is looking for a new head of US head of policyThe Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced a new $350 million effort focused on criminal justice reformA new web standard called Global Privacy Control allows users to opt out of all third-party data tracking with a single click for websites that have enabled itFacebook is developing newsletter tools that would challenge Substack and TwitterFacebook is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, alleging the company forces it to follow App Store rules that Apple itself ignoresFacebook is developing tools that would prevent News Feed ads from running next to topics like crime and politicsFacebook hired its first chief compliance officerWhatsApp added biometric authentication to its web and desktop versionsGoogle opened its first Safety Engineering Center in Dublin to focus on the spread of illegal and harmful contentA single Clubhouse user invited hundreds of journalists to join the app in an effort to increase the amount of scrutiny the platform receivesReddit-like ShareChat is surging in IndiaYouTube’s TikTok rival, Shorts, is getting 3.5 billion daily views in India after launching there in September[email protected]