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| Rachel Sharp / The Independent: |
In a now-deleted tweet, Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi — Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform
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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’
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges — Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification — Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Musk ordered Twitter homepage to be changed to show the Explore page to logged out users, not a sign-up form, which was quietly implemented on Friday — On his first day, Twitter's new ‘Chief Twit’ quietly changed the homepage to send a message.
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Axios. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @sriramk, @alexeheath, @noahpinion, @tomwarren, @broderick, @faizsays, @alexeheath, @joshelman, @nycsouthpaw, @can, @sarafischer, @goldman, and @sharonodea
| 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 planned 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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Tweets: @elonmusk, @nickrw, @gartmartin9, @mmasnick, @nickstatt, @scottadamssays, @lemieuxlgm, @jhweissmann, @jesseltaylor, @mims, @opendna, @avindman, @aricohn, @gergelyorosz, @moorehn, @jamesrbuk, @hayskali, @meslackman, @espiers, @pkafka, @specialsitsnews, @goldietaylor, @ivortossell, @rbreich, @mmasnick, @tomaxwell, @sdkstl, and @rmac18
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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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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Tweets: @vadimyuryev, @markgurman, and @samifathi_
| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
Interview with Gerard de Graaf, director of a new EU office in San Francisco, on the DMA taking force on November 1 and its likely impact on tech companies — The Digital Markets Act will force big tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU's new ambassador to Silicon Valley.
Tweets: @bottythierry, @ieet, @joonaslinkola, @cramforce, and @tweetsbyasd
| 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: @the_transit_guy, @tszzl, @mims, @wsj, @tunguz, @fosspatents, @jessefelder, @mims, @jason_pontin, @mims, and @mims
| 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 era
Tweets: @joewsj
| 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.| Gordon Corera / BBC: |
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