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December 16, 2022, 7:15 PM

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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.
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’”  —  Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
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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?
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” …
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
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.
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 …
Amir Shevat / TechCrunch:
Former product head of Twitter's developer platform details the plans, like custom timelines, that Twitter abandoned post-acquisition, breaking developer trust  —  Twitter is where the world shares its opinions and aspirations; it's where brands, celebrities, and politicians interact with people, live and in the open.
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: PingWest
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
In a complaint to the US NLRB, the CWA alleges Apple tried to prevent union organizing in Ohio by creating a company-controlled pseudo-union  —  Apple Inc. tried to prevent union-organizing efforts in Ohio by creating a company-controlled labor group for employees to join instead …

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