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As of October 6th, Twitter’s Birdwatch community moderation program has been expanded to all US users, The Verge reported. Birdwatch was officially launched in beta in January 2021, and makes a step up on the platform’s efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation on the platform. But, as the scheme expands, data reviewed by The Verge suggests that the most
Twitter said that payments to a whistleblower did not breach any of its obligations under the $44 billion acquisition proposed by Elon Musk, after the billionaire sent a third letter to try and call off the deal, CNBC reported. The social media giant said it intends to enforce the agreement and close the transaction on the price and terms agreed
A lawyer for Elon Musk argued in a letter Friday to Twitter Inc. that a roughly $7 million payment the company made to a whistleblower gives the billionaire more ammunition to walk away from a $44 billion deal to buy the social-media business, The Wall Street Journal reported. Twitter agreed in June to pay a settlement to Peiter Zatko, who
A Delaware judge called Elon Musk’s request for years of data about Twitter Inc.’s spam and fake accounts “absurdly broad” but ordered the social-media company to provide a subset of the information in the continuing legal battle over the billionaire’s soured $44 billion takeover, The Wall Street Journal reported. Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick said in a decision Thursday that the request
Twitter executives deceived federal regulators and the company’s own board of directors about “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in its defenses against hackers, as well as its meager efforts to fight spam, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint from its former security chief, The Washington Post reported. According to The Washington Post, the complaint from former head of security Peiter Zatko, a
Twitter warned staff that the size of bonus payments this year was at risk because of financial difficulties, adding to belt-tightening measures tech companies are implementing during an economic downturn, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, Twitter told its employees that it had “experienced significant challenges” to revenue since January. It linked those to a
Twitter won its first legal fight against Elon Musk on Tuesday when a Delaware judge granted the company’s request to fast-track its lawsuit seeking to compel the world’s richest person to complete his $44 billion purchase of the social-media site, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the chief judge of