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[Link] Elon Musk appears to reconcile with Apple after Twitter tirade
Read: 4/12/2022 arstechnica.com
Elon Musk said he had a “good conversation” with Apple chief executive Tim Cook and “resolved the misunderstanding” about his claim that Twitter could be removed from the App Store, just days after the world’s richest man unleashed a tirade against the most valuable tech company.
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[Link] CYBER: Taking Elon Musk Seriously
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
We have to talk about Elon Musk. It’s fun to make fun of him, and whatever he’s doing at Twitter certainly looks like the weird flailing of a man who doesn’t know how to run a company. But let’s take Musk seriously for an hour or so. He is the richest man in the world.
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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.
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[Link] Shitposting Shiba Inu Accounts Chased a Russian Diplomat Offline
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
An unofficial army of cartoon Shiba Inu dogs is making life hard for people who post Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.
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[Link] Tesla asks judge to pause suit alleging ‘rampant racism’ against Black workers
Read: 19/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Tesla has asked a California judge to pause a lawsuit against the company alleging widespread racial discrimination at its flagship assembly plant.
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[Link] Starbucks Is Blocking Union Activists and Workers on Twitter
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
James Skretta, a former barista who helped organize a union at his Starbucks in Buffalo, retweeted the tweet from Starbucks’ corporate account, which has 11 million followers, and wrote: “@Starbucks official stance on union-busting.
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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.
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[Link] Guy Whose Companies Keep Getting Sued For Discrimination Threatens to 'Improve' Twitter
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Elon Musk has joined the board at Twitter, saying he plans to make several improvements to the platform.
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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.
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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
Read: 9/3/2022 time.com
The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).
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[Link] TikTok Finally Bans Deadnaming, Conversion Therapy Content
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
TikTok updated its terms of service Tuesday morning to ban deadnaming, misgendering, misogyny, and content that promotes conversion therapy programs.
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[Link] Republican Tweets Grossest Christmas Card of All Time
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Saturday, the Kentucky Republican tweeted a photo of himself and his family all holding firearms with the message, “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.”
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[Link] Twitter Is Going to Make It Harder To Share Videos and Pictures Taken in Public
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter is expanding its policy on posting private information with the goal of limiting the risk of harassment, intimidation, and doxing.
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[Link] New Twitter CEO's Tenure Begins With People Dragging Old Tweet In Bad Faith
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down on Monday, and announced that CTO Parag Agrawal will be taking over. Agwaral's tenure at Twitter then immediately started in the most painfully Twitter way: a pile-on based on a tweet he made a decade ago.
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[Link] Ex-defense secretary sues over withheld material from Trump era memoir
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The former US defense secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the defense department that material is being improperly withheld from him as he seeks to publish an “unvarnished and candid memoir” of his time in Donald Trump’s cabinet.
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[Link] Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Again
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down for the second time since founding the company, Twitter announced Monday. Dorsey will be replaced by current CTO Parag Agrawal. The announcement ends Dorsey's uneven, six-year second stint as Twitter CEO.
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[Link] Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey set to step down, report says
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role at the social media company, according to CNBC.
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[Link] Should politicians like Peter Dutton suck up Twitter’s hot-gives and -takes or pursue vindication?
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
You’ve got to wonder how Peter Dutton, one of the most wealthy and overstretched members of federal parliament, fathoms up the wherewithal to sue for defamation an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate who called him something nasty on Twitter. Busy? You bet you are.
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[Link] We Spoke to the Unlucky Company With the Same Name as the Investor of Taliban’s Marijuana Center
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday night, the Twitter account for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOI) announced that a foreign company was investing $450 million into setting up a hashish processing factory within the country.
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[Link] Jeremy Corbyn Paid ‘Substantial’ Damages Over Photoshopped Suicide Bomber Tweet
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Paul Nickerson also apologised for the photograph, which showed Corbyn laying a poppy wreath next to a burning taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital and was captioned with the word “unsurprisingly”. Corbyn said the damages would be donated to charity.
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[Link] GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Suspended from Twitter after Posting Bounty on a Critic
Read: 14/11/2021 itsgoingdown.org
A failed candidate for governor of California was suspended from Twitter for making “violent threats” after posting a $2,500 bounty; specifically asking for the name and address of a critic from Twitter.
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[Link] Paul Gosar’s Violent Anime Video of AOC Could Get Him in Real Trouble
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Rep. Paul Gosar’s staff-made anime video, which shows his character killing a congresswoman and attacking President Joe Biden, could earn him a rare censure from his colleagues.
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[Link] Discord Teases Getting Into Crypto and NFTs, People Big Mad
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Internet users, generally speaking, tend to dislike design changes.
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[Link] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Have Completely Lost It on Twitter
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
Bezos, the Amazon founder whose net worth is around $200 billion, implied that he would personally throw actor Leonardo DiCaprio off a cliff in a tweet.
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[Link] Richard Spencer Held Parties in 'Fash Loft' For White Nationalists, Court Hears
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
It became known as “the fash loft”—and hosted as many as six parties for white nationalist influencers that summer. None of them were recorded. But many otherwise make unlikely bedfellows.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Is 1 Twitter Violation Away From a Permanent Ban
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account has been suspended for a week for posting COVID-19 misinformation, and the Georgia congresswoman is just one more violation away from a permanent ban.
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[Link] Alec Baldwin Just Shot Someone and He’s Tweeting Through It
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. While filming a scene near Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Western last month, Baldwin, 63, shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, and injured director Joel Souza.
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[Link] Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s richest man, with $335 billion in wealth and caught up in Twitter spats, now wants some peace, at least according to an 1,800-year-old Chinese poem he just shared.
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[Link] Ransomware Gang Says the Real Ransomware Gang Is the Federal Government
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Friday, a competing ransomware gang that calls itself Conti released a statement titled “ReviLives,” in support of the REvil gang, which was the target of the international operation.
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[Link] Marvel Enthusiasts Angered by Non-Spoiler
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Marvel fans are apoplectic that a journalist who attended a preview screening of the upcoming Eternals had spoiled the movie. It’s unclear what, exactly, was spoiled.
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[Link] Hasan Piker Said He Went to a Brothel, Igniting Sex Work Debate
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Tweets and past comments from Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker have kicked off yet another argument online about whether sex work is inherently exploitative. On Thursday, Piker tweeted a video from inside of a strip club, where a young man wearing one of his t-shirts gets a lap dance.
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[Link] Japanese Host Club With a Nazi Theme Apologizes for Its Lack of ‘Awareness’
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Staffed with male hosts who entertain and pour customers’ drinks, the club, called Unfair, opened on Sunday in the southern prefecture of Osaka.
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[Link] Fears for democracy in El Salvador after president claims to be ‘coolest dictator’
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The top US diplomat in El Salvador has warned of “a decline in democracy” in the country, whose president, Nayib Bukele, recently changed his Twitter profile to read “the coolest dictator in the world”.
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[Link] Ireland fails to enforce EU law against Big Tech
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Ireland is failing to apply the EU’s privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98 percent of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved by its regulator.
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[Link] Hunter Biden Laptop Guy Owes Twitter Money After Failed Lawsuit
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the Delaware repair store where Biden allegedly left a MacBook Pro, attempted to sue Twitter for defamation in federal court.
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[Link] COVID Troll Alex Berenson Implies He'll Sue to Get Twitter Access Restored
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter turned “the pandemic’s wrongest man,” as the Atlantic once dubbed him, was permanently suspended from Twitter on Sunday for violating the social media company’s policies against coronavirus misinformation.
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[Link] Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating Content
Read: 26/8/2021 www.yahoo.com
Twitter will allow Taliban-affiliated accounts to continue using its platform despite its policies against glorification of violence and threats.
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[Link] ABC journalist agrees to pay MP $79,000 in defamation settlement over tweets
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
ABC journalist Louise Milligan has agreed to pay federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming $79,000 in a defamation case over a series of tweets she sent. Dr Laming launched the case in May, alleging Milligan defamed him in four tweets sent on March 28, 2021.
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[Link] Pakistani Man Live-Tweets His Loving Search For an Indian Man After Finding His Wallet
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
When educator Ghazi Taimoor was strolling down London’s Shoreditch High Street, he stumbled upon a brown wallet on the ground. Right away, he scanned the area to see who could be its owner, but it seemed they were already lost in the bustling crowd.
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[Link] The Pegasus Project Shows Tech Giants Need to Do More to Keep Users Safe
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm about industrialized insecurity for years, but the Pegasus Project has to be a line in the sand. As you might have noticed, this newsletter was dormant for the last 6 months.
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[Link] Twitter admits it verified fake account of author Cormac McCarthy
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Cormac McCarthy is known for his sparse punctuation and distinctive writing style, the violent and pessimistic themes of his work, and his reclusive public persona. So it was surprising to see the novelist on Twitter, sharing bons mots about kombucha and SoundCloud for an audience of thousands.
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[Link] US Lawmakers Suggest That Piracy is Part of Twitter’s Business Model
Read: 4/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A group of bipartisan U.S. House Representatives has sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, urging the company to take copyright infringement seriously.
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[Link] Someone Has Been Faking a Relaunch of Fallout Studio Interplay
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
Publisher Interplay Entertainment has announced that a Twitter account claiming to announce a relaunch of the storied developer is a fake.
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[Link] Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Read: 28/7/2021 www.reuters.com
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.
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[Link] Harvey Norman deletes Twitter account amid outrage over jobkeeper
Read: 2/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
The retail giant Harvey Norman has deleted its Twitter account after mass blockings of critics and bizarre emoji responses to those who challenged the company over the action.
[Link] Twitter won’t let federal archivists host Trump’s tweets on Twitter
Read: 8/4/2021 arstechnica.com
The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency responsible for preserving historically significant federal records, including tweets from senior government officials.