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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.
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| 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” …
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| 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?
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| 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 …
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Musk says Twitter will lift suspension of accounts that “doxxed my location”, after he ran a poll resulting in 58.7% users voting for immediate unsuspension — The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now. https://twitter.com/...
| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Media Matters for America: |
On December 16, Twitter reinstated at least 12 far-right accounts including election misinformation celeb Mike Lindell and popular QAnon fans like Patrick Byrne — Among the reinstated accounts are far-right media and other figures, election and vaccine misinformers, and a white nationalist| 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 …
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Tweets: @googlechrome, @mozhacks, @webkit, and @mozhacks
| 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.
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| 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” — Dutch cryptocurrency exchange Bitvavo said it can't access 280 million euros ($297 million) on Digital Currency Group … | Kristin Robinson / Billboard: |
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