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Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts — Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter's unmatched record defending “actual” free speech globally — Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives.
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech — The very first hours of Musk's stewardship of Twitter have been dominated by users relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets.
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| CNBC: |
General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership” — A General Motors sign is seen during an event on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan. - General Motors will create 4,000 new jobs …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: spotted at Twitter's HQ today on Musk's first full day as owner were former head of product Kayvon Beykpour, David Sacks, and Musk's personal attorney — The billionaire began as Twitter's new owner by announcing a content moderation council and meeting employees, as some of the social media service's users celebrated.
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| John Walker / Kotaku: |
Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; users would need an Adobe plug-in costing $15/month to access colors — Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black| Financial Times: |
eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks in 2022, up 3.6% YoY, which is ~10x slower than in 2021 — A decade-long era of breakneck growth in social media advertising has come to an abrupt halt. Who killed the boom?| Washington Post: |
A look at the US government's handwringing over TikTok and national security concerns, as China's government seeks to protect its powerful app and algorithms — The wildly popular app's link to China has sparked fears over propaganda and privacy. It's also exposed America's failure to safeguard the web.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Do Kwon faces a suit, filed on September 23, in Singapore from 350 investors who lost ~$57M, alleging “fraudulent misrepresentations” about TerraUSD's stability — He's wanted by South Korean prosecutors, Interpol has issued a red notice seeking his arrest, and he's been hit with class-action lawsuits in U.S. courts.| Karl Bode / VICE: |
A Reddit user provides a detailed look at a decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage; such servers are often embedded within major ISP networks — A Netflix cache server is getting a second chance at life thanks to Redditors. — KB — A Redditor says they've managed … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple's stock closes up 7.56%, its best day since April 2020, making it the day's second-best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, behind Intel — - Apple stock rose 7.5% on Friday, a day after it reported September quarter earnings that modestly beat expectations on revenue …
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| Bloomberg: |
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content — Jeffrey Bewkes scanned his mind, searching for the perfect war metaphor. — It was December 2010.
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