Techmeme: Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes (The Irish Times)

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Paddy Cosgrave steps down as the CEO of Web Summit, which plans to appoint a new CEO; the event, set to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned — Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks …

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The Irish Times:

Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes — Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing — Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become …

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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:

Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10 — The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …

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