Friday, May 21, 2021

"Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt — for the wrong person"

The Verge:

"We are not a news company. We are safety and we make this sort of heinous crime impossible to escape from. That needs to be our mindset." The bounty was later raised to $30,000.

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And while Citizen said it plans to get it right next time, [the CEO] suggested in a Slack message that it won’t be the last time Citizen offers a cash reward. "We need to build this into the product and we will," he wrote.