A top Twitter official said that some content moderation work on the social media website has been halted following Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the company last week. Yoel Roth, the head of safety and integrity for Twitter, responded to a Bloomberg News story that claimed many Twitter employees were denied access to content…
Twitter Official Confirms Some Content Enforcement Work Frozen After Elon Musk Takeover
Arizona GOP Candidate’s Twitter Account Restored After Musk Writes He’s ‘Looking Into’ It
November 1, 2022
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Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, wrote Monday that his Twitter account was suspended and then restored as new owner Elon Musk confirmed he would look into the incident—just about a week out from the 2022 midterm elections. “Twitter has blocked my account from speaking truth with one week…
UK MPs Warned That Anonymised Data Can Be ‘Reverse Engineered’
A committee of MPs has been told of the danger of connected technology and data mining by experts who said Britain should bring in regulation to protect individuals and especially workers. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee is investigating “the impacts of the increasing prevalence of smart and connected technology” such as Alexa, Siri, and…
Elon Musk Signals Interest in Rebooting Once-Popular Video App Vine
Vine, a short-form video app that Twitter shuttered in 2016, could make a comeback to the platform following Elon Musk’s recent takeover of the social media giant. Musk, who completed the acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion on Oct. 27, signaled interest in resurrecting Vine Monday evening, asking his 112.7 million followers in a Twitter poll…
Jack Dorsey Retains Stake in Twitter, Saving Elon Musk $1 Billion
November 1, 2022
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Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has retained his 2.4 percent stake in the social media platform after it was acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the filing, Dorsey retained more than 18 million shares in Twitter, valued at about $1 billion when the company became private. The…
Instagram Fixes Bug That Triggered Hours-Long Outage
Instagram said on Monday it had fixed a software bug that prevented thousands of users from accessing the photo-sharing platform for about eight hours and led to complaints of accounts being suspended. “We’ve resolved this bug now—it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a…
White House Invites Dozens of Nations for Ransomware Summit
October 31, 2022
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WASHINGTON—The White House is bringing together three dozen nations, the European Union, and a slew of private-sector companies for a two-day summit starting Monday that looks at how best to combat ransomware attacks. The second International Counter Ransomware Summit will focus on priorities such as ensuring systems are more resilient to better withstand attacks and…
Dorsey’s Social Media Network Gains Traction Following Musk’s Twitter Takeover
October 31, 2022
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Founder and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s new platform, Bluesky, picked up steam as some Twitter users look for alternative options amid Elon Musk’s recent takeover. The beta-mode app has reportedly registered 30,000 signups on its waiting list. “Wow. 30k signups for our app’s waiting list in the last two days! Thanks for the overwhelming…
Twitter Fact-Checks Biden’s Claim That Companies Paid No Taxes
October 31, 2022
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Twitter flagged President Joe Biden’s claim that “55” big corporations nationwide paid no taxes for 2020, as the platform affirmed that “only 14” of them were eligible to be taxed. Biden took to Twitter to boast about his Inflation Reduction Act last Friday, using one of his favored data targeting big companies. “Let me give…
Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Will Revise User Verification Process
Twitter will be revising how it verifies users of the social media platform, billionaire businessman Elon Musk confirmed on Oct. 30. Musk wrote on Twitter that the “whole verification process is being revamped right now,” but did not provide further details. His post came in response to a question from spaceflight photographer John Kraus, who had asked…
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