Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts
Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
Source: Elon Musk plans to become Twitter's CEO, but may cede the role in the longer term
It Was Never Taken Down Heather Kelly / Washington Post : You've decided to quit Twitter. Here's what you can use to replace it. Charlie Conchie / City A.M. : Sacked Twitter chiefs could pocket $122m...
General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership”
A General Motors sign is seen during an event on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan. - General Motors will create 4,000 new jobs …
Elon Musk takes Twitter private, merging the company with X Holdings, delisting from NYSE, dissolving the board, and moving staff stock options to cash bonuses
Elon Musk's former fans have lost faith in the idea of the billionaire genius. Angela Watercutter / Wired : Twitter Writes Twitter's Requiem Livemint : Big reveal in Parag's sacking! Messages between ...
“Welcome to hell, Elon”: Musk won't be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without enormous compromises and realizing that content moderation is the product
Now It's Elon Musk's Turn Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data (or deactivate your account) Peter Kafka / Vox : The Big Tech boom is over and Wall Street kn...
Sources: spotted at Twitter's HQ today on Musk's first full day as owner were former head of product Kayvon Beykpour, David Sacks, and Musk's personal attorney
The billionaire began as Twitter's new owner by announcing a content moderation council and meeting employees, as some of the social media service's users celebrated.
The EU's commissioner for the internal market warns Twitter will have to comply with the EU's new digital regulations, saying “the bird will fly by our rules”
Who owns the rainbow? Who owns the clouds, the lakes, the trees … Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg : Musk's Free Speech Plans for Twitter Clash With EU Content Rules Mashable : Parler, Truth Social won't ...
Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech
The very first hours of Musk's stewardship of Twitter have been dominated by users relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets.
Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; users would need an Adobe plug-in costing $15/month to access colors
Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black
Sources: Twitter engineers were told on Friday to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, before being told to shred those printouts
Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please — Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general … Tweets: @caseynewton , @elonmusk , @leahculver , @broderick , @djbi...
Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter's unmatched record defending “actual” free speech globally
the company and product—but its principled stance on pushing back on government intrusion, over-broad subpoenas, and takedown demands globally is one of the things that made me proud to have worked th...
A look at the US government's handwringing over TikTok and national security concerns, as China's government seeks to protect its powerful app and algorithms
The wildly popular app's link to China has sparked fears over propaganda and privacy. It's also exposed America's failure to safeguard the web.
Google acquired Alter, an AI avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity; source: the deal closed two months ago for ~$100M
Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity …
Internal Iranian carrier documents detail SIAM, an Iranian government web program for surveilling the country's cellphone users and disrupting communications
As furious anti-government protests swept Iran, the authorities retaliated with both brute force and digital repression. Tweets: @mazmhussain and @kenklippenstein Tweets: Murtaza Hussain / @mazmhussai...
Sources: Byju's plans to layoff about 12,000 people, or nearly 25% of its workforce, over the next year; Byju's denies the number of job cuts is more than 2,500
$22B India-based Byju's — that may have taken advantage of pandemic trends and easy funding to grow far faster than ongoing market demand. https://twitter.com/... @morningcontext : “I am not surprised...
Apple's stock closes up 7.56%, its best day since April 2020, making it the day's second-best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, behind Intel
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Telegram CEO says the company disabled paid posts on iOS after being told Apple was not happy with creators monetizing “without paying a 30% tax to Apple”
Sami Fathi / MacRumors :
A Reddit user provides a detailed look at a decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage; such servers are often embedded within major ISP networks
A Netflix cache server is getting a second chance at life thanks to Redditors. — KB — A Redditor says they've managed …
Do Kwon faces a suit, filed on September 23, in Singapore from 350 investors who lost ~$57M, alleging “fraudulent misrepresentations” about TerraUSD's stability
Wall Street Journal :
Tel Aviv-based Valence Security, which helps secure SaaS supply chains, raised a $25M Series A led by Microsoft's M12, with Akamai and others participating
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks in 2022, up 3.6% YoY, which is ~10x slower than in 2021
A decade-long era of breakneck growth in social media advertising has come to an abrupt halt. Who killed the boom? Tweets: @alexeheath and @philwahba See also Mediagazer Tweets: Alex Heath / @alexehe...
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content
Jeffrey Bewkes scanned his mind, searching for the perfect war metaphor. — It was December 2010. Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @jonnyrmcfarlane , @alisterbull1 , @gloriacheunghy , @chris_skinner , and @mymy...
Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, Within CEO Chris Milk, and others to testify in the FTC case against Meta's acquisition of Within
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Sources: Andreessen Horowitz is an investor in Android founder Andy Rubin's new hardware startup Simple Things and Marc Andreessen sits on the board
Meta, which hit a $1T market cap in June 2021, is no longer among the 20 most valuable US companies, after losing $730B+ in value since its September 2021 peak
Analysis: 17 VC-backed Chinese companies that went public on Nasdaq and NYSE in the past 2 years have seen a ~91% average decline in their post-IPO stock price
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News :
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