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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Used Customer Assets to Fund Political Donations, Says SEC

Plus: moral panic about department stores, the obvious cause of homelessness, and more...

Reason

As Biden weighs a 2024 bid, his strategy hinges on 'the former guy'

WASHINGTON — As former President Donald Trump announced his third bid for the White House last month, President Joe Biden was on the other side of the world, convening an emergency meeting of world leaders following reports of explosions on Poland's border with Ukraine.

Los Angeles Times

TechScape: I read Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ so you don’t have to

In this week’s newsletter: The leaks don’t reveal a hotbed of leftwing bias at the social media company – just a thin-skinned billionaire rehashing culture wars of years past

The Guardian - UK

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Republicans look to target former intelligence officials who voiced doubts over Hunter Biden email story

House Republicans are poised to use their control of key committees to target former intelligence officials and social media executives who they blame for casting doubt on reporting which was unflattering to Mr Biden

The Independent UK

Coal and gas price cap is a political stunt

Email letters@newcastleherald.com.au or send a text message to 0427 154 176 (include name and suburb).

Newcastle Herald

The right’s misplaced obsession with Hunter Biden

What is this Hunter Biden obsession really about? Consider the timing. For seven years, the right has been explaining, excusing, avoiding and eventually cheering the most morally depraved figure in American politics.

Chicago Sun-Times

Elon Musk tells Jack Dorsey ‘most important data’ was hidden as former CEO asks for release of ‘Twitter Files’

“If the goal is transparency to build trust, why not just release everything without filter and let people judge for themselves?’” Dorsey asked

The Independent UK

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I really do blame the media

After 38 years as a political reporter, here's my assessment of the current D.C. press corps: A flaming car wreck

Salon

Jonathan Bernstein: Republicans haven’t solved their Herschel Walker problem

For a non-negligible minority of Americans, the biggest political story of the moment isn’t who won this week's runoff in Georgia. It’s the supposed conspiracy to suppress the truth about corrupt business dealings by President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

Tribune News Service

Musk says Twitter executive was ‘exited’ from company

Jim Baker, Twitter Inc.’s deputy general counsel, was pushed out of the company over his handling of information, Elon Musk said in a tweet.

Tribune News Service

Musk says Twitter lawyer fired amid Hunter Biden laptop dispute

Elon Musk accuses executive of possibly suppressing information about Twitter’s handling of Hunter Biden laptop story.

Al Jazeera

Republicans launching investigation into handling of U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal

The operation was clouded by a suicide attack that left 13 Americans and roughly 200 Afghans dead.

Axios

GOP's "psychological" Hunter obsession

Even if GOP's Hunter claims are true, "it still wouldn’t amount to a fraction of what Trump did,” Republican says

Salon

The truth of Twitter’s role in the Hunter Biden laptop story and it’s not what you think

Former FBI counterintelligence officials tell Andrew Feinberg it would have been unusual for there not to have been any contact between the bureau and social media giants

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - US

Trevor Noah: ‘Trump is like one of those guys who never stops trying to get back with his ex’

Late-night hosts react to Trump’s call to ‘terminate’ the constitution after Elon Musk’s Twitter Files do nothing to support Hunter Biden conspiracy theories

The Independent UK

Elon Musk publishing Hunter Biden laptop Twitter files was ‘not healthy’, White House says

‘It won’t do anything to help a single American improve their lives’

Reason

Rep. Khanna on Twitter, Free Speech, and the Hunter Biden Story

A Democratic member of Congress laments how Twitter handled the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop.

The Independent UK

Republican senators turn on Trump over his attack on the Constitution: ‘He goes from MAGA to RINO’

“I don’t think there was an escape clause to not defend the Constitution,” Senator Roy Blunt tells The Independent.

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Reason

What Twitter's Suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Tells Us About the Media

Plus: The editors consider a listener question on the involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.

The Independent UK

Voices: The media should apologize for ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story — despite Elon Musk’s Twitter stunt

There were reasons then to be skeptical — and lessons now to be learned

Salon

Elon Musk's Hunter Biden nothingburger

Despite promising damning info, release shows Biden's campaign asked Twitter to comply with its own policies

Salon

Hunter Biden's laptop: Theme of 2023?

Of course it's a non-issue: Republicans hope to force the media to cover it, and hope to make Joe Biden cry

Salon

GOP silent on Trump and Constitution

"The leader of the Republican Party has just called for the ... installation of a dictator," notes historian

The Independent UK

As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job

As Elon Musk is finding out, running a global social media platform requires more than a few good algorithms

ABC News

Donald Trump calls for end of US Constitution due to 'massive fraud' in 'false and fraudulent' 2020 presidential election

The former US president takes to Truth Social to call for constitutional changes to throw out the results of the 2020 election, two days after offering his support for convicted January 6 rioters who have been "unfairly treated".

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