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Legacy Twitter blue ticks stay in place with users confused over verifications

Users of the social media platform are now unable to distinguish between legacy blue ticks and those who subscribed to the service

Manchester Evening News

At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free

Capricious rule changes and fingers on the scales mark the platform's new regime.

Axios

Jack Black says he will ‘call Elon Musk’s bluff’ over Twitter blue tick removal

‘I’m a little embarrassed to be honest with you,’ the ‘Super Mario Bros Movie’ actor said

The Independent UK

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Twitter strips check mark from New York Times

Move comes after Twitter owner Elon Musk posted disparaging remarks about the newspaper.

Al Jazeera

Twitter legacy blue ticks remain despite Elon Musk’s subscription threat

Removal of verification badges reportedly could take a long time as it may involve many manual elements

The Guardian - AU

Elon Musk Reveals Twitter’s Source Code As Promised, Says ‘Initial Release Is Going To Be Embarrassing’

On Friday, Elon Musk-owned Twitter released the source code for its recommendation algorithm that allows to peak into its workings

Zenger

Twitter’s Revenue Drops As Advertisers Voice Major Concerns

Twitter has been bleeding advertisers since Elon Musk took over, with high-profile companies pausing promotions on the platform

Zenger

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Review ordered after fans invade Melbourne F1 track, Donald Trump 'gearing up for a battle', and a 'cruel' prank against an Oscar winner — as it happened

This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

ABC News

Twitter pulls check mark from main New York Times account

Twitter has removed the verification check mark on the main account of The New York Times, one of CEO Elon Musk’s most despised news organizations

The Independent UK

New York Times loses Twitter ‘verified’ tick as Musk’s changes take effect

Twitter started removing its ‘legacy’ verification ticks from 1 April

The Independent UK

This crackdown on antisocial behaviour puts us at the mercy of curtain twitchers

Going after minor misdeeds will add to police workloads and likely fuel vigilantism

The Guardian - UK

Catherine Lacey: ‘That constant nervous Twitter energy repels me’

The American novelist, whose latest work is a fake biography of an avant-garde artist, on growing up in Mississippi and why her fiction has ‘never actively involved cellphones or the internet’

The Guardian - UK

Twitter Makes Some of its Source Code Public

Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, with its owner Elon Musk adding that the entirety of the code will be available in the next few weeks. The announcement will allow users and programmers a peek into its…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Panthers DL Shy Tuttle on paying for Twitter verification: Elon Musk can kiss it

New Panthers DL Shy Tuttle doesn't need no stinkin' Twitter badges.

USA Today Sports Media Group

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The Guardian - UK

Andrew Tate speaks of ‘absolute clarity of thought’ after move to house arrest

Social media influencer posts video about release from police custody in Romania after court ruling

Fortune

Elon Musk's open source code is 'completely dishonest'

Twitter published parts of its algorithm, but many developers said the code paints an incomplete picture.

The Independent UK

Chrissy Teigen, Dionne Warwick and other celebrities react to losing the blue check on Twitter

The social media platform is set to get rid of legacy verified blue checkmarks on 1 April

ABC News

Elon Musk's 2018 tweet on Tesla union campaign violated labour laws, US court rules

A US appeals court rules Tesla CEO Elon Musk violated federal labour law by tweeting that employees of the electric vehicle maker would lose stock options if they joined a union.

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Reason

Douglass Mackey Convicted for Vote-by-Tweet Meme

Here's the E.D.N.Y. U.S. Attorney's Office press release: Douglass Mackey, also known as "Ricky Vaughn," was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights stemming from his scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote. The verdict followed a one-week trial…

TechRadar

I gave Twitter my all and soon I won't even have a Blue Check to show for it

April Fools Day will mark the end of legacy verified Twitter users' access to free blue checks

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes reacts to Twitter’s impending checkmark change

It doesn't look like #Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes and many other NFL athletes will be paying to keep a verification checkmark on Twitter.

PC Gamer

Marvel's Avengers gets its final update, unlocking all the cosmetics for everyone

It's a bittersweet moment for fans.

The Independent UK

Andrew Tate timeline: From Big Brother assault scandal to human trafficking charges

The controversial influencer and his brother Tristan are facing an arrest warrant for sexual aggression in the UK

Daily Record

Andrew Tate and his brother released from jail in Romania after three months

The duo are now under house arrest.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Pro athletes everywhere say they won’t pay the $8 for Twitter’s blue checkmarks

Patrick Mahomes joins LeBron James as more and more athletes are saying no to Twitter Blue.

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