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TechScape: Is Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro more than just another tech toy for the rich?

There’s a disconnect between the eye-watering price of Apple’s new ‘spatial computing’ gadget and the promise of it – but it has some genuinely novel features

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2023

Twitter is hiring ad executives to bolster its business

The social media giant is trying to build out a team with ad expertise, but it's seeing departures of leaders in other important parts of its business.

Fortune · Jun 5, 2023

Twitter’s head of trust and safety resigns in latest high-profile departure

Ella Irwin oversaw content moderation at the struggling social network, which has been plagued with woes since Musk’s takeover

The Guardian - US · Jun 2, 2023

Twitter removes tweets about 'Trans Day of Vengeance'

Twitter says it has removed tweets showing a poster promoting a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D

The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2023

MTG rages as Twitter restricts account

Greene baselessly claimed that "antifa" was organizing a "trans day of vengeance" after Nashville shooting

Salon · Mar 29, 2023

Sacked Twitter exec who went viral still defends going “all in” for Elon Musk

Esther Crawford lashed out at gloating critics for jeering from the sidelines rather than standing "in the arena."

Fortune · Feb 27, 2023

Twitter reportedly makes more cuts to online safety teams

A dozen people based in Dublin and Singapore who moderate content and monitor hate speech believed to have been let go

The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2023

Twitter cuts more staff overseeing global content moderation

Twitter Inc., under new owner Elon Musk, has made deeper cuts into its already radically diminished trust and safety team handling global content moderation, as well as to the unit related to hate speech and harassment, according to people familiar with the matter.

Tribune News Service · Jan 7, 2023

'The platform isn’t safe anymore’: A former Twitter trust and safety advisor says Elon Musk is making all the wrong moves

“I think we can see the friction now between what Musk thinks he can do and the actual reality of content moderation,” Abdul Rahman said.

Fortune · Dec 21, 2022

Elon Musk restores Twitter accounts of journalists recently suspended over @elonjet 'doxxing' controversy

Following widespread condemnation and a user poll supporting their reinstatement, Twitter owner Elon Musk allows several prominent journalists to return to the social media platform, which claimed they had posted his "assassination coordinates".

ABC News · Dec 17, 2022