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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter begins reactivating some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now”, beating “in 7 days” — (The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
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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
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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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| 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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| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Accounting firm BDO, whose Italian member BDO Italia recently signed off on reserves reports for Tether, says it is reconsidering its work for crypto companies — Accounting firm BDO, which recently signed off on reserves reports for Tether, on Friday said it is reconsidering its work for crypto companies.| Financial Times: |
Binance says it was hit by roughly $6B in net withdrawals between December 12 and December 14, which it was able to fulfill “without breaking stride” — Accounting firm was hired by Binance and other crypto exchanges to conduct key reports — Outflows from Binance accelerated …
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google starts testing client-side encryption for Gmail with some Workspace users, and plans to add it to its Android and iOS apps — Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google.| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
A look at Backstage, Spotify's open-source developer platform used at Netflix, LinkedIn, Epic, Roku, Box, and 200+ others, which the company seeks to monetize — Backstage is used by developers at Netflix, American Airlines and hundreds of other companies — With nearly a third … | Laura Preston / n+1: |
A worker who served as a fallback for a real estate AI chatbot for $25/hour details the experience of pretending to be a bot as part of a sixty-strong team — THE RECRUITER WAS A CHIPPER WOMAN with a master's degree in English. Previously she had worked as an independent bookseller.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Analysis: several major Russian cities appear to have faced widespread GPS disruption in the past week, experts say to evade Ukraine's long-range drone attacks — Navigation system monitors have seen a recent uptick in interruptions since Ukraine began launching long-range drone attacks.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Marc Benioff told staff in a Slack message that Salesforce's new hires are “facing much lower productivity”, asking “is this a reflection of our office policy?” — - Marc Benioff, cofounder and co-CEO of Salesforce, said in a Slack message to employees on Friday … Sponsor Posts
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