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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship — Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @watcherguru, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @timsweeneyepic, @lib_crusher, @alexeheath, @lbrycom, @nickstatt, @tszzl, @sarafischer, @elonmusk, @benedictevans, @kurtwagner8, @kantrowitz, @kantrowitz, @pkafka, @vaushv, @steinkobbe, @lib_crusher, @internethippo, @ashtonpittman, @gorskon, @divestech, @ct_bergstrom, @kellymakena, @mattgertz, @forever_wario, @esqueer_, @hsajwanization, @alexeheath, @owillis, @travisallen02, @kevinmkruse, @liz_wheeler, @thequartering, @markgurman, @donie, @wallstreetsilv, @mzhemingway, @jake_k, @jdan, @walshfreedom, and @willoremus
| Financial Times: |
Source: Musk sought to call some brands' CEOs to berate them for advertising less on Twitter; others lowered spend to the minimum needed to avoid confrontation — Top brands abandon social media platform as billionaire owner berates chief executives who have curbed spending
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team — For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, The Independent, Insider, New York Post, The Guardian, WinBuzzer, PCMag, The Hollywood Reporter, and Neowin
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images — Protesters are using few or no words in public and online demonstrations to speak out against Beijing's zero-Covid policies
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Tweets: @eefjerammeloo, @emilyzfeng, @ajitpai, @ywnreporter, @sheenagreitens, @thestalwart, @moraitakis, @newley, @stephenmcdonell, @mbrookerhk, @brendannyhan, @lukedepulford, @peterfrankopan, @sheenagreitens, @jchengwsj, @lizalinwsj, @reuters, @sentdefender, @lizalinwsj, @nycjim, @_karenhao, @uyghurspeaker, @jean_leroux, @bbcworld, @phoebe_kongwy, @replisamcclain, @danaihoward, @jonschweppe, @palkisu, @phoebe_kongwy, and @jchengwsj
| Decrypt: |
BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New Jersey, plans to lay off a large portion of its staff, and says it has $256.9M cash on hand — The FTX contagion has just claimed another crypto firm. … The crypto lender is also laying off a large portion of its staff, the source said.
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Tweets: @tier10k, @jacqmelinek, @tier10k, @colin_gladman, @kadhim, @davidgerard, @deitaone, @silvermanjacob, @tier10k, @silvermanjacob, @0xfoobar, @kadhim, @fintechfrank, @mhonkasalo, @petition, @digitalassetbuy, @silvermanjacob, @cryptorca, @tier10k, @levie, @nerdnationunbox, @cmsholdings, @asvanevik, @zerohedge, @grdecter, @ivanthek, @fintechfrank, @dogetoshi, @tier10k, @boxmining, @silvermanjacob, @0xfoobar, @bullchain, @w7voa, @petition, @convertbond, @deitaone, and @jeffseibert
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fines Meta €265M for failing to safeguard data on 500M+ users from data scrapers, the third fine by the DPC on Meta — Company gets new EU privacy fine as bloc tightens regulation of big tech companies — A top European regulator fined Facebook …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Source: turmoil at Foxconn's Zhengzhou hub is likely to lower iPhone 14 Pro production by close to 6M units in 2022, potentially worsening if lockdowns continue — Turmoil at Apple Inc.'s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou is likely to result in a production shortfall of close …
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Tweets: @nytimes, @pelstrom, @zartechnical, @profdaveandress, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, and @carnage4life
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp begins rolling out a Message Yourself feature, letting users send notes, reminders, and shopping lists to themselves — WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself. Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible …
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Tweets: @amirmizroch and @tuviae
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Microsoft will likely soon offer the EU concessions regarding the Activision deal; source: the main remedy would be a 10-year licensing deal to Sony — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is likely to offer remedies to EU antitrust regulators in the coming weeks to stave off formal objections …
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Game Developer, CNET, Neowin, GameSpot, FOSS Patents, Wccftech, Appuals.com, Gameranx, OnMSFT.com, and Video Games Chronicle
| New York Times: |
Yahoo takes a ~25% stake in Taboola and plans to use Taboola's ad tech as part of a 30-year exclusive deal expected to generate $1B+ in annual revenue — Yahoo's chief executive sees the deal as a long-term bet on digital advertising. The companies estimate that their ad partnership will generate $1 billion annually.
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Search Engine Land, MarTech, Reuters, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, The Information, TechCrunch, and Axios
Tweets: @rsingel, @jlanzone, @alex, @benmullin, and @astaniscia86
| Gian Volpicelli / Politico: |
EU lawmakers claim the Markets in Crypto Assets rules, expected to be approved in 2023, would prevent an FTX-like crash, but some say the proposal needs updates — The cryptocurrency world is reeling after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX — but EU policymakers are patting themselves on the back.| New York Times: |
US crypto exchange Kraken agrees to pay $360K+ to the Treasury Department to settle accusations of sanctions violations involving transactions by users in Iran — The crypto exchange, which had been under investigation for violating U.S. sanctions, agreed to pay $360,000 to settle the allegations.
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The Block, U.S. Department …, Decrypt, Reuters, CoinDesk, and Cointelegraph
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: between Q1 2019 and this fall, Alphabet's Google Cloud, hardware unit, and YouTube have roughly doubled headcount, as the total employee count grew ~80% — Alphabet has doubled the headcount in its Google Cloud unit since early 2019, according to data obtained by The Information, outstripping Alphabet's overall hiring growth.
Tweets: @coryweinberg and @theinformation
| Charley Adams / BBC: |
The UK plans to criminalize self-harm content in the updated Online Safety Bill, in line with suicide content, after the death of teenager Molly Russell in 2017 — The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.
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Gizmodo, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch, ITV News, Sky News, and Light Reading
Tweets: @eff, @seyiakiwowo, @ameliabeckett, @lucympowell, @proflappleby, @mattnavarra, @mollyroseorg, @sajidjavid, @gbnews, and @giveusashout
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