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Texas Observer journalists raise $270,000 in bid to save publication

Magazine’s editors asked board not to lay off anyone for a month if staff raised $200,000 after Friday’s vote to cease publication

The Guardian - US

iOS 16.4 launch coming soon — here’s the new features for your iPhone

Apple is readying its next iOS update and iPhone users can expect plenty of improvements

Tom’s Guide

Splitting up social media may be its only hope

By now it should be evident that Twitter Inc. is a shadow of its former self. What’s not clear is which alternatives might replace it, or how the market will look a few years from now. This chaos offers an opportunity to rethink the entire structure of the social media…

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Mastodon looked like the new Twitter last year. Today, downloads have dried up

Despite vows to leave Twitter, people don’t seem to be transitioning to other platforms.

Fortune

Review: Mastodon Decentralizes Social Media

Elon Musk’s shambolic takeover may not have been great for Twitter, but it was fantastic for Mastodon.

Reason

Move to pay-for-access application program interface continues platform owner’s push for revenue

The Guardian - AU

Elon Musk ‘doesn’t seem like’ right person to own Twitter, says co-founder

Biz Stone, one of quartet who set up company, says positive changes he oversaw have been undone by Tesla chief executive

The Guardian - UK

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Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation

The new social network with its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk

The Guardian - UK

House Republicans To Probe White House Pressure on Social Media Companies

Plus: House votes to rescind IRS funding, the FDA is putting unnecessary strings on pharmacies filling abortion pill prescriptions, and more...

Reason

Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around

More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn’t it taken off?

The Guardian - AU

Lisa Jarvis: Science Twitter needs a new home

I will miss science Twitter.

Tribune News Service

TechScape: Elon Musk’s poll own goal proves he can’t get out of his own way

In this week’s newsletter: Musk has a talent for trying to wiggle out of trouble on Twitter, only to land deeper in it – this time by asking users if he should quit as chief executive

The Guardian - UK

Mastodon, Truth Social and Nostr - what are the apps that Elon Musk banned from Twitter?

Twitter has announced a new policy preventing sharing links to apps Mastodon, Truth Social and Nostr

Manchester Evening News

Biden Is Set To Sign $858 Billion Pentagon Budget—One of the Biggest Ever

Plus: North Carolina strikes down voter ID law, more turmoil at Twitter, and more...

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WEKU

Musk asks in poll if he should step down as Twitter CEO; users vote yes

There was no immediate announcement from Twitter, or Musk, about whether that would happen, though he said that he would abide by the results.

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk’s Twitter poll: 10 million say he should step down

Billionaire chief executive of Tesla insists there is no successor in the wings at social media platform

Daily Mirror

Elon Musk set to QUIT Twitter job after 17million users vote in resignation poll

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk launched a 12-hour poll on Sunday night asking social media users if he should step down as head of Twitter amid a number of controversial changes

Fortune

Elon Musk must step down from Twitter CEO, his own poll results show

Musk pledged to follow its results—but he also says there‘s “no successor.”

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Daily Mirror

Elon Musk asks Twitter users if he should QUIT and says he will abide by poll

Elon Musk has vowed to abide by the results of a public online poll asking Twitter users if he should 'step down' as head of the social media platform

France 24

Musk asks Twitter users if he should stay in charge of social media platform

Elon Musk is asking Twitter’s users to decide if he should stay in charge of the social media platform after acknowledging he made a mistake Sunday in launching new speech restrictions that banned mentions of rival social media websites.

Fortune

Twitter suspends account of Paul Graham, a respected venture capitalist supportive of Elon Musk, after he tweets about Mastodon link

He broke a new Twitter rule about not linking out to other social media platforms—though claiming he did that seems like a stretch.

Al Jazeera

Twitter bans ‘free promotion’ of other social media platforms

Social media giant says it will remove content linking to accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and others.

Daily Mirror

Twitter crackdown on sharing links from Facebook, Instagram and other rival sites

Twitter announced during the World Cup final that users now face being suspended or banned from the site if they share links from other social media sites like Facebook or Instagram

The Guardian - UK

Musk sets up Twitter poll asking if he should step down as head

Twitter owner promises to abide by the results of the poll, less than two months after appointing himself CEO

Axios

Twitter to ban accounts promoting some social media competitors

The move may raise eyebrows among regulators at the Federal Trade Commission.

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