The act of mansplaining is alive and well on social media. Since what feels like the dawn of time, overconfident men have condescendingly explained things, even when they're woefully unqualified for the job — or claiming they know better than somebody far more informed on the matter. In a baffling exchange on Bluesky, Meredith Whittaker, the president of encrypted chat platform Signal and chief advisor to the AI Now Insitute, promised that the company promises "no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does." Whittaker was responding to news that Meta-owned WhatsApp was stealing personal […]