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| Rachel Sharp / The Independent: |
Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, in response to a Hillary Clinton tweet — Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] Elon Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing government pressures even as his Tesla wealth depends on China and others — I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: on October 28, Twitter engineers were told to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, and then told to shred the printouts — Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please — Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …
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| Martin Peers / The Information: |
Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, “for cause”, in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts — When Elon Musk terminated four top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal on Thursday …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as October 29, before staff are scheduled to receive stock grants on November 1 — The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk planned …
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Twitter's head of safety and integrity says it has not changed content policies but had been subject to “an organized effort to make people think we have” — Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in ‘organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy’| New York Times: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores — Apple's next group of Macs probably won't launch until early next year, which means it will have fewer new devices to sell in the holiday quarter.
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| ProPublica: |
Analysis reveals how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinfo in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Amid a downturn, tech companies may shift their focus from “gee-whiz” projects, like self-driving cars and metaverses, to truly useful products that make money — History shows that downturns are when the industry shifts focus from flashy novelties to things that are truly useful
Tweets: @mims, @wsj, @mims, @jessefelder, @tunguz, @fosspatents, @jason_pontin, @mims, and @mims
| Christina Caron / New York Times: |
Some teens are using TikTok to self-diagnose mental illnesses, as health providers worry about inaccurate information and accounts encouraging harmful behavior — While social media can help people feel less alone, using it to evaluate symptoms has several downsides.
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| Gordon Corera / BBC: |
Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since 2018 to battle state-backed Russian, Chinese, and North Korean hackers — Russia failed to take down Ukrainian computer systems with a massive cyber-attack when it invaded this year, despite many analysts' predictions.| Wall Street Journal: |
How the detention of Huawei's then CFO Meng Wanzhou to stand trial in the US provoked a standoff between global powers and splintered US-China relations — Detention of a Chinese executive to stand trial in the U.S. provoked a standoff between global rivals and opened an acrimonious new eraSponsor Posts
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