Tag: Media & Big Tech

Musk Hints at Revealing Internal Discussion on Censoring NY Post’s Hunter Biden Story

November 24, 2022
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Billionaire Elon Musk revealed on Wednesday that the inside discussions of Twitter’s board prior to the company deciding to censor the New York Post’s explosive story that exposed information on a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden should be made public. Musk made the disclosure while responding to a message that called on the new…

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Elon Musk Reveals Stash of ‘StayWoke’ T-shirts at Twitter HQ

November 24, 2022
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he discovered a stash of T-shirts with the “#StayWoke” slogan printed on the front inside a closet at the company’s San Francisco headquarters. In a video shared on Twitter, Musk is seen filming the dark-colored T-shirts with the “#StayWoke” slogan plastered in white as other people are…

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Elon Musk Must ‘Immediately Address and Fix’ Twitter’s Security Failures: Senate Republican

November 24, 2022
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, is calling on Elon Musk to answer questions about Twitter’s security and privacy issues that his predecessor has failed to provide. In a letter (pdf) to Musk released on Nov. 23, Grassley expressed concerns about how the information collected by Twitter could fall into…

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Tax Filing Software Sent Sensitive User Information to Facebook: Report

November 24, 2022
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Popular tax filing software, such as TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block, reportedly violated financial privacy by sending sensitive personal information to Meta’s Facebook. Meta’s Pixels, Facebook’s widely used code that tracks user activity on the internet, allowed the social media giant to secretly receive personal financial information through online tax filing services, according to a joint investigative report by The…

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Meta Spokesperson Denies Report of CEO Zuckerberg Stepping Down Next Year

November 24, 2022
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Meta Platforms Inc. spokesperson Andy Stone said in a tweet on Tuesday that a report on Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg stepping down next year was false. News website The Leak earlier in the day reported that Zuckerberg was set to resign in 2023, citing an unnamed insider source. The report briefly sent the company’s…

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New Visa Card Features Personal Carbon Emissions Tracker

November 23, 2022
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The monitoring of personal behavior by banks will take another step forward as Canadian credit union Vancity launches a new credit card technology to report users’ carbon emissions. On Oct. 19, Vancity announced that it will be “the first financial institution in Canada to offer its individual and business members a way to estimate the…

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Trump’s Twitter Reinstatement Triggers Activist Demands for Advertiser Boycott

November 23, 2022
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The reinstatement of former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend has prompted several activist groups to call on companies to pull their advertising spending on the platform. Billionaire businessman and Twitter owner Elon Musk reactivated Trump’s account following the results of a Twitter poll in which he asked for users’ opinions on the matter….

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Messages Show How Associated Press Decided to Publish Report Claiming Russia Struck Poland

November 23, 2022
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The Associated Press published a story claiming Russian missiles struck Poland after an editor decided that a single anonymous source was sufficient, newly published internal messages show. Reporter James LaPorta said in a Slack chat room that he’d heard from a source, described as a senior American intelligence official, that “Russian missiles crossed into Poland.”…

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Biden Administration Says Its Pressure on Social Media Companies Wasn’t ‘Coercive’

November 23, 2022
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The government’s pressure campaign on big tech companies to censor users, including the claim that Facebook was “killing people” by not cracking down enough on purported misinformation, was not coercive, Biden administration lawyers argued in a new motion. Even if government officials “urged social media companies do more to contain misinformation, any content moderation decisions made…

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Wall Street Opens Lower Ahead of Fed Minutes, Apple Falls

November 23, 2022
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Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Wednesday, as Apple shares fell, while investors awaited the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s November meeting for a clearer picture of its monetary tightening policy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 6.5 points, or 0.02 percent, at the open to 34091.57. The S&P 500 fell 3.3 points, or…

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