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Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions  —  The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
By using flimsy, absurd excuses for banning journalists' Twitter accounts, Elon Musk and his buddies show themselves to be hypocrites with no principles  —  Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go.  It's how it always goes.  —  Remember Parler?
The Guardian:
Representatives from the UK, Germany, the European Commission, and the United Nations raise concerns over Twitter's suspension of US journalists  —  Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions  —  The United Nations is “very disturbed” …
NBC News:
Twitter suspends journalists including the New York Times' Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’”
More: Semafor, Los Angeles Times, BBC, New York Times, Bloomberg, Garbage Day, The Verge, Public Notice, The Guardian, Washington Post, The Hill, TechCrunch, Insider, Techdirt, The Intercept, Ars Technica, Metro.co.uk, Axios, Mashable, The Atlantic, NPR, Gizmodo, Financial Times, Gizmodo, CNET, @chairmanhoneycrisp …, Digiday, Techaeris, @gaberivera@mastodon.xyz, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, @drewharwell@mastodon.social, @maxschleiffer@mastodon.social, @drewharwell@mastodon.social, Unprecedented, Truth and Consequences, @dankennedy_nu@journa.host, The Unraveling, Scatter Brain, Thurrott, Neowin, Fast Company, TheStreet, 9to5Mac, and Android Headlines
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Semafor:
Sources: the MD of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter, offering shares of Twitter at $54.20, the same price that Musk paid  —  The managing director of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee …
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Mazars, the auditor that worked on proof-of-reserves reports for Binance, Crypto.com, and others, pauses work with crypto clients and deletes Binance's report  —  Mazars has deleted Binance's proof-of-reserves assessment, which found its bitcoin reserves were overcollateralized.
New York Times:
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”  —  John Carmack, who was chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, is departing the company.
9to5Mac:
Apple, Google, and Mozilla are collaborating on the development of Speedometer 3, a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness  —  Speedometer is a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness by simulating user interactions on demo web applications.  Introduced by Apple's WebKit team …
RT Watson / The Block:
Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo, which uses DCG for its staking service, says it can't access ~$297M held at DCG and that DCG is “experiencing liquidity problems”  —  - Bitvavo said it can't access 280 million euros ($297 million) held at DCG.  — DCG controls troubled crypto lender Genesis Global Capital.
More: Reuters and Bitvavo
Brian Fung / CNN:
Some legal experts say Twitter could face regulatory scrutiny for blocking links to Mastodon  —  Elon Musk's Twitter sparked an international outcry on Thursday by suspending a number of journalists at major news organizations who cover him.  —  But a different and possibly related move …
Meg Shen / Reuters:
Foxconn's Xingwei agrees to sell its entire stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup for ~$771.79M  —  Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW), the world's largest contract electronics maker, said on Friday its subsidiary in China has agreed to sell entire equity stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup.
More: Reuters and PingWest
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
TikTok is helping a new class of music business executives break through and circumvent the notoriously exclusive path that the industry usually requires  —  The pandemic spurred many young music business hopefuls to join TikTok, now they are some of the industry's most sought-after talents.

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Stephen Totilo / Axios:
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