Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
Filing: Elon Musk has secured $46.5B to acquire Twitter, including $25.5B in debt financing via Morgan Stanley and other firms, and is exploring a tender offer
now what? Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Elon Got His Money Kyle Chayka / New Yorker : Why Would Elon Musk Want to Buy Twitter? New York Post : Elon Musk in talks to partner on Twitter ...
The EU approves Amazon's $6.5B MGM acquisition, saying the deal won't reduce competition as their production doesn't overlap and MGM content is not a must-have
Russia moves to designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication
WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, it takes up nearly 60% of all messenger internet traffic. We are talking tens of millions of people having limited access to comms...
Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison
Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …
Twitter updates its iOS app to stop automatically refreshing timelines and causing tweets to disappear, after rolling out the update on the web last week
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
Casey Newton / Platformer :
Facebook tells employees to preserve internal docs and communications related to its business since 2016, as governments and legislative bodies begin inquiries
New York Times :
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted
A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks
Biden signs an EO calling on regulators to enact reforms such as increasing scrutiny of tech mergers and focusing more on moves like “killer acquisitions”
- President Joe Biden signed a new executive order aimed at cracking down on anti-competitive practices in Big Tech, labor and numerous other sectors.
Founders and VCs are flocking to Miami for “Miami Tech Week”, an impromptu event kicked off by a tweet from Delian Asparouhov, a principal at Founders Fund
Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut
Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.
Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut
Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.
Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil
to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that Sundar Pichai / The Keyword : Our $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers Byron Kaye / Reuter...
Microsoft says the next planned major update for Minecraft, the Super Duper Graphics Pack update, is “too technically demanding” and has been canceled
Brad Sams / Thurrott :