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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision — Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …
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| Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost: |
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013 — Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants. — Andrew Anglin ― …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Apple's efforts to reduce dependence on Foxconn; sources: Apple wants other suppliers in China, Vietnam, and India to actively plan product assembly — Burned by Covid lockdowns and worker protests at Foxconn plants, the iPhone maker is looking to diversify the supply chain that has powered its growth
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Twitter's US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup's Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets — Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange is trying to recover $900M owed to it by Genesis Global and Genesis' parent company Digital Currency Group — New York-based Gemini is trying to recover funds after FTX failure plunged market into turmoil — Digital asset trading group Genesis …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Tim Cook was able to placate Elon Musk within two days, but the chaos at Foxconn's “iPhone City” may become the greatest test of Cook's diplomatic skills yet — Apple chief placates Elon Musk but faces bigger questions over iPhone supply chain — Tim Cook was already battling … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: FTX's derivatives exchange LedgerX is for sale, attracting interest from Blockchain.com, Gemini, and others; Nov. 17 filing: LedgerX had ~$303M in cash — LedgerX, one of the few solvent pieces of Sam Bankman-Fried's crumbled FTX empire, is for sale and attracting interest … | CNBC: |
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| New York Times: |
China is using phone trackers and other tools to track protestors, the first time mass surveillance has been directed at middle-class people in affluent cities — After a weekend of protests, the authorities in China are using the country's all-seeing surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS-based group chats on its Messages app — Google said today it is testing end-to-end encryption for RCS-based group chats on its Messages app — RCS stands for Rich Communication Services. The company noted that it will be rolling …
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| Bill Gifford / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Duolingo, which has almost 15M DAUs, up 51% YoY, and 3.7M paying subscribers, as it expects its 2022 revenue to surpass $365M, up 45% from 2021 — After dinner on Aug. 23—a date he will never forget—Tobi Fondse pulled out his phone to do his daily Duolingo.
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| Reuters: |
Twitter's VP of trust and safety Ella Irwin says it is focusing on automation to moderate content, favoring curbs on distribution rather than outright removals — Elon Musk's Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions … | Samriddhi Sakunia / Rest of World: |
A look at the use of WhatsApp in Indian state Gujarat's elections, as political parties deploy thousands of “digital warriors” to spam the “people's feed” — 10,000 volunteers, 50,000 WhatsApp groups, and the intense fight to “control people's feed” in Gujarat.Sponsor Posts
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