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Elon Musk fired X engineer who told billionaire his posts weren’t generating engagement, book claims

‘You’re fired. You’re fired’, billionaire told principle engineer, according to new book on Musk’s purchase of the site formerly known as Twitter

The Independent UK

Ex-Twitter Engineer Blows The Whistle On Elon Musk's Chaotic Reign

A former Twitter engineer has accused Elon Musk of wrongly firing him based on false accusations that he leaked information about the social media site.

International Business Times UK

TechScape: Why big tech could learn big lessons from the Post Office Horizon scandal

In this week’s newsletter: To see where an IT flaw became a crisis, you have to look past the technology altogether. Plus, Substack’s biggest names jump ship

The Guardian - UK

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Leading tech journalist quits Substack over platform’s Nazi newsletters

Reporter Casey Newton takes more than 170,000 subscribers elsewhere over company’s failure to police extremist content

The Guardian - US

Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

Newsletter writers with thousands of subscribers threaten to leave platform, which says banning extremists makes things worse

The Guardian - UK

How Elon Musk’s antisemitic comments pushed X advertisers over the edge

The social network once known as Twitter is facing a new exodus thanks to the behaviour of its mercurial owner – and it may not recover, reports Io Dodds

The Independent UK

Elon Musk’s Twitter launches company-wide mole hunt

Employees have been told to report to superiors anyone they have reason to believe may be passing on damaging information.

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Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users

Amid an ongoing cost-cutting effort, Twitter has now refused to pay the bills to renew its multi-year contract with Google Cloud, Platformer has reported.

The Conversation

Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills, and might ditch it entirely

Google Cloud contract left hanging as Twitter tries to handle hosting in-house.

TechRadar

LeBron James takes aim at Twitter owner Elon Musk over billionaire's plans

LeBron James momentarily took his eyes off the NBA playoff race to take aim at Elon Musk as Twitter moves ahead with removing checkmarks to push its paid subscription service

Daily Mirror

Tech giants are cutting back on AI ethics research as Elon Musk calls for a cautious approach

Technologists are calling for a more cautious approach to AI, but some companies are still pushing forward at all costs.

Fortune

Musk pushes subscriptions as Twitter's ship takes on more water

Twitter's financial needs are driving plans to limit recommendations and verification to paying users.

Axios

Twitter is secretly boosting 35 users including LeBron James and Marc Andreessen, according to a new report

The list, which has reportedly operated for months, was made to test if some accounts gained more engagement than others, according to Platformer.

Fortune

Twitter employees woke up to a 2:30 a.m. email from Elon Musk. 'The office is not optional'

The billionaire is upset that Twitter's San Francisco offices were a ghost town on Wednesday, despite rolling out a return-to-office mandate last November.

Fortune

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Microsoft’s A.I. ethics layoffs send a worrying signal

Experts warn disbanding the A.I. ethics and society team could damage Microsoft’s ethical drive.

Axios

Microsoft, Google race to bring generative AI to the office

The software giants want to be first with the latest, but are raising questions about responsibility.

Fortune

Musk dismisses Twitter employee question on layoffs with Office Space clip

Twitter's CEO dismissed Haraldur Thorleifsson's attempt to explain what he did at the company with "Pics or it didn't happen."

Fortune

Elon Musk says Twitter will sue a ‘disgruntled employee’ who planted a ‘bogus article’ about his tweets being boosted

Musk tweeted Friday, “The ‘source’ of the bogus Platformer article is a disgruntled employee who had been on paid time off for months..."

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The Guardian - US

Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter algorithm to boost his tweets after Super Bowl flop

A tweet from Joe Biden garnered triple the impressions than Musk’s game time post, sending Twitter engineers scrambling to boost their boss

Salon

Musk forced change to boost own tweets

Frustrated about his engagement on Twitter, Musk forced his team of engineers to overflow the feed with his tweets

Fortune

Elon Musk reportedly ordered Twitter engineers to put his tweets at the top of everyone’s feed

A new report claims that Elon Musk was annoyed that his Super Bowl tweet got fewer views than one from U.S. President Joe Biden.

Fortune

Elon Musk has reasons for Super Bowl Sunday jitters as CEO of Twitter and Tesla

Musk will watch Twitter’s stability after a recent glitch, and a Super Bowl ad will slam Tesla’s full self-driving mode.

Fortune

Twitter’s culture shift post–Elon Musk takeover is drastic: A ‘ghost town’ Slack, terrible coffee, and the work beds are fully booked on weeknights

Employees at Twitter describe what the company’s culture has become since Musk’s takeover, and it’s not pretty.

Salon

Musk fired engineer over declining views

Musk fired an engineer who said there was no evidence the algorithm was biased against him

Fortune

Twitter's Wednesday outage reportedly happened because an employee accidentally deleted data and the team that could fix it left in November: 'It’s chaos here right now'

An engineer who deleted files reportedly caused the outage. But the team that could have fixed it was fired last November.

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