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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team — For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images — Protesters are using few or no words in public and online demonstrations to speak out against Beijing's zero-Covid policies
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Musk says Apple threatened to withhold Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why”, as he calls out Apple over lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship — Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
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| Financial Times: |
Source: Musk sought to call some brands' CEOs to berate them for advertising less on Twitter; others lowered spend to the minimum needed to avoid confrontation — Top brands abandon social media platform as billionaire owner berates chief executives who have curbed spending
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| Decrypt: |
BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New Jersey, plans to lay off a large portion of its staff, and says it has $256.9M cash on hand — The FTX contagion has just claimed another crypto firm. … The crypto lender is also laying off a large portion of its staff, the source said.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Source: turmoil at Foxconn's Zhengzhou hub is likely to lower iPhone 14 Pro production by close to 6M units in 2022, potentially worsening if lockdowns continue — Turmoil at Apple Inc.'s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou is likely to result in a production shortfall of close …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fines Meta €265M for failing to safeguard data on 500M+ users from data scrapers, the third fine by the DPC on Meta — Company gets new EU privacy fine as bloc tightens regulation of big tech companies — A top European regulator fined Facebook …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp begins rolling out a Message Yourself feature, letting users send notes, reminders, and shopping lists to themselves — WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself. Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible …
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| New York Times: |
Yahoo takes a ~25% stake in Taboola and plans to use Taboola's ad tech as part of a 30-year exclusive deal expected to generate $1B+ in annual revenue — Yahoo's chief executive sees the deal as a long-term bet on digital advertising. The companies estimate that their ad partnership will generate $1 billion annually.
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Tweets: @jlanzone, @alex, @benmullin, and @astaniscia86
| Eva Corlett / The Guardian: |
New Zealand says Twitter failed to detect or remove clips from the 2019 Christchurch terror attack until the government alerted the company — Footage was taken down only after the New Zealand government alerted Twitter, which had failed to pick up the content as harmful
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Gizmodo, Very Fine Day, Axios, ongoing by Tim Bray, and The Liberal
Tweets: @bjornih, @samueloakford, @davidgerard, @bjornih, and @ashleylynch
| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
EU lawmakers claim the Markets in Crypto Assets rules, expected to be approved in 2023, would prevent an FTX-like crash, but some say the proposal needs updates — The cryptocurrency world is reeling after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX — but EU policymakers are patting themselves on the back.| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: between Q1 2019 and this fall, Alphabet's Google Cloud, hardware unit, and YouTube have roughly doubled headcount, as the total employee count grew ~80% — Alphabet has doubled the headcount in its Google Cloud unit since early 2019, according to data obtained by The Information, outstripping Alphabet's overall hiring growth.
Tweets: @theinformation
| Charley Adams / BBC: |
The UK plans to criminalize self-harm content in the updated Online Safety Bill, in line with suicide content, after the death of teenager Molly Russell in 2017 — The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.
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