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Twitter on Monday night abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the latest sign that Elon Musk is unraveling years of work and institutions created tome the social network safer, The Washington Post reported. According to The Washington Post, members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council received an email with the subject line “Thank You,” that informed them the council
Twitter Blue for individuals, Gold for businesses, and Grey for government officials, but you will have to pay $8.00 monthly to get it.
Microsoft is to acquire a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the company that owns the London Stock Exchange as well as several other businesses including financial market data company Refinitive which LSEG acquired from a Blackstone/Thompson Reuters consortium last year for $27 billion, TechCrunch reported. According to TechCrunch, Microsoft’s stake, which it bought from the same
Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday, Engadget reported. Previously known as Birdwatch, the feature first debuted in 2021 under former CEO Jack Dorsey as a means for the social media to combat misinformation. According to Engadget, Community Notes takes a crowd-sourced approach to debunking misleading tweets. Moderators who
The catchy headline at the top of this blog post was the title Reuters selected for its article. It is an ominous sounding title, indicating that Microsoft will have difficulty with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) lawsuit against the company. Reuters reported that Facebook is Microsoft’s antitrust boogeyman. The U.S. regulatory agency, the Federal Trade Commission, is seeking to block
Twitter Inc. will relaunch a revamped version of its subscription services Twitter Blue on Monday at a higher price for Apple users, the company said in a tweet on Saturday, Reuters reported. The official @Twitter account tweeted: “we’re launching @TwitterBlue on Monday - subscribe on web for $8/month or on iOS for $11/month to get access to subscriber only features,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered state agencies to ban TikTok on government-issued devices, citing security concerns of the app’s data-sharing practices with the Chinese Government, The Guardian reported. “TikTok harvests vast amounts of data from its users’ devices - including when, where and how they conduct Internet activity - and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to