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November 5, 2022, 2:05 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”  —  Chief of social-media company cites activist groups pressuring advertisers, as many staffers brace to lose jobs
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
A Birdwatch note adding context to Elon Musk's tweet about Twitter's revenue drop is gone; Musk called the community notes feature “awesome” earlier this week  —  Sign up for Semafor Tech, led by Reed Albergotti, to get our scoops and coverage of the industry's biggest stories in your inbox twice a week.
Platformer:
Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs  —  I. The Snap  —  The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday.  —  For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …
The Verge:
Sources: Twitter teams hit hardest by the layoffs span communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, ML, and some core engineering teams  —  About half of Twitter's 7,500 employees are now gone, with teams focused on trust and safety issues hit the hardest.
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
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Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
A profile of Twitter Head of Safety & Integrity Yoel Roth, who joined in 2015 and is one of few executives to gain Elon Musk's public support after the takeover  —  Reed is Semafor's Technology Editor, joining us from the Washington Post.  Louise is a Technology Reporter for Semafor, joining us from NBC News.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Filing: Apple settles lawsuit against an ex-employee accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with the media; he will pay an undisclosed sum to Apple  —  Apple has settled its lawsuit against Simon Lancaster, a former design architect, who the company accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with a journalist.
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Jack Daleo / FreightWaves:
Loop, a logistics payments startup that matches shipping invoices to pricing, raised $30M across a seed and a Series A from Founder's Fund, Flexport, and others  —  Company handled $1B in payment volume in its 1st year … Here's a wild stat: Between 20% and 30% of all invoices today contain some form of exception or error.
Deepsekhar Choudhury / Moneycontrol:
Source: Indian B2B marketplace Udaan plans to lay off 325 to 350 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, a week after raising $120M in convertible debt  —  Up to 350 on-payroll employees to get impacted, apart from a number of contractual workers  —  A week after securing $120 million …
New York Times:
Sources: Elon Musk weighs adding paid DMs to let users privately message “Very Important Tweeters”; docs show Twitter Blue checks won't require ID verification  —  The billionaire and his advisers have discussed adding paid direct messages, fees to watch videos and other features to the service.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop:
Insurance giant Zurich's $100M+ settlement to cover losses suffered by Mondelez International from NotPetya may reshape the entire cyber insurance marketplace  —  The settlement last week in a $100 million lawsuit over whether insurance giant Zurich should cover losses Mondelez International suffered …

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