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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter plans to make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff are told they will be fired if they don't build it by November 7 — Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering taking away its verified users' badges if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue for $4.99 per month — Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification — Twitter is strongly considering making …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Elon Musk had the Twitter homepage for logged out users quietly changed to the Explore page, instead of a sign-up form, on October 28 — On his first day, Twitter's new ‘Chief Twit’ quietly changed the homepage to send a message. … Before, visiting Twitter's homepage while logged …
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| Martin Peers / The Information: |
Source: Elon Musk fired four 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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| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
Twitter faces ~$1B per year in interest expenses after Elon Musk's deal added ~$13B in debt, up from ~$50M in 2021 when operations generated ~$633M in cash flow — Mr. Musk faces financial challenges in owning Twitter. The site frequently loses money and took on $13 billion in debt for the blockbuster deal.| New York Times: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Rachel Sharp / The Independent: |
In a now-deleted tweet replying to Hillary Clinton, Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory about the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul — 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 the service has not changed content policies but was subjected 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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| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
An interview with Gerard de Graaf, the director of a new EU office in San Francisco, on the DMA coming into force on November 1 and its 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.
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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; the 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: how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinformation 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.| Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: |
CoinGecko: normalized exchange volume for Crypto.com has dropped 91% over the past year, 90% for Huobi, 77% for FTX, 75% for Coinbase, and 57% for Binance — Bad ad or bad timing? Either way, trading is down big. — Whichever version of the Latin proverb you choose …
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Sources: US-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple faces US federal probes into whether it improperly financed and transferred tech to a Chinese startup — Government authorities are investigating whether the U.S. self-driving trucking company defrauded investors by financing and transferring technology to China-backed HydronSponsor Posts
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