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Musk blocks Alex Jones' Twitter return

The tech bro has drawn a line, despite allowing Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene back on the platform

Salon

Fortune 500 company founder signs up to become an AI bot - but only after he dies

The chief executive, in his 80s, is one of 25 people whose personalities will be recreated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a trial project

Daily Mirror

Kanye West tweets 'Shalom' as he returns to Twitter after ban for antisemitism reversed

Controversial rapper Kanye West posted 'Shalom' in his first Tweets since his account on the social media platform was reinstated by his 'friend' Elon Musk

Daily Mirror

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Mastodon's Content-Moderation Growing Pains

[I asked Prof. Alan Rozenshtein (University of Minnesota) to write a post about Mastodon and one particular recent controversy related to it, and he very kindly agreed. -EV]

Reason

Elon Musk's Twitter reinstates Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Elon Musk's Twitter has reinstated the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was banned in January for violating the platform's COVID misinformation policies at the time

The Independent UK

Elon Musk unbans Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal Twitter account

The Georgia congresswoman was banned for repeatedly spreading Covid misinformation

The Independent UK

Amid Musk Twitter chaos, athletes & celebs cope just like us

Much like many of Twitter's hundreds of millions of users, professional sports stars and celebrities from the entertainment world are dealing with the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the microblogging app since Elon Musk took it over and began trimming the staff and making other changes

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Has your Instagram been cloned yet? Inside the rise of social media identity theft (and what to do about it)

Cases of social media identity theft have skyrocketed in recent weeks, with victims and their loved ones being scammed — so are any of us really safe online anymore? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Civil rights leaders slam Musk for reinstating Trump's Twitter account

"Unless and until Musk can be trusted to enforce Twitter’s prior community standards, the platform is not safe for users or advertisers."

Axios

Elon Musk is a case study in how not to be a boss

Letter: Barbara Otis on the Twitter CEO’s troubling behaviour towards employees

The Guardian - UK

Trump news - live: Manhattan DA resumes Stormy Daniels hush money probe as Elon Musk unbans conservatives

Former president says he ‘doesn’t see a reason’ to return to Twitter

The Independent UK

Kanye West says he’s running for president, working on campaign with Milo Yiannopoulos

Kanye West is tuning up for another presidential run.

Tribune News Service

Kanye West returns to Twitter following anti-Semitic ravings

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West surfaced on Twitter on Sunday with a “test” to see if his account was working after a series of outrageous anti-Semitic statements had gotten him suspended from the platform and compelled many businesses to ditch him.

Tribune News Service

Easy to Set Up a Mastodon Account to Mirror Your Twitter Account

I noted yesterday that we had set up a Mastodon account (@VolokhC@liberdon.com), but I also wanted to mention that it was pretty easy: [1.] I found an "instance," which is to say a place that would host us, and which had moderation rules that we could deal with. For us,…

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Twitter reacts to Kanye West announcing 2024 campaign: ‘Can it get any crazier?’

Ye was seen and heard announcing the run in a YouTube video alongside far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos

Fortune

From immigration support to free office furniture: How severance packages for laid-off tech employees compare

An inside look at how severance packages at tech companies like Microsoft, Netflix, and Lyft stack up.

Fortune

Tech layoffs are not the canary in the coal mine for the U.S. labor market, Morgan Stanley says

Tech firms including Lyft, Twitter, Stripe, Meta and Amazon have laid off staff in recent months.

The Guardian - US

Trump in apparent Twitter snub after Musk lifts ban – as it happened

Former president yet to tweet after account reactivated – follow all the latest politics news

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Post: Ex-Waze CEO is making a Twitter rival to make you smarter, not angry

Post is a new social-media site that could offer an antidote to the chaos of Twitter.

Fortune

"No mercy": Elon Musk keeps Twitter ban for Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

The self-described "free speech absolutist" seems to be inconsistent with his reinstatement policy, this time citing the InfoWars host does not deserve his "mercy".

Wales Online

Nigel Owens banned from Facebook after sharing homophobic abuse he received

The rugby ref said the ban was "unbelievable" after the horrible message

USA Today Sports Media Group

Twitter reacts to Colts’ 17-16 loss to Eagles

Here's how Twitter reacted to the Colts' loss in Week 11:

Evening Standard

Rage is addictive and Twitter has been a narcotic, now I’m re-assessing

It is a long time since Twitter was anything like birdsong, but that’s the way of everything. An idealistic media designed to give voice to the silent falls to the grifters: Donald Trump, a man who tried to overthrow the republic, was readmitted at the weekend to wreak havoc again.

The Guardian - US

Elon Musk rules out conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s return to Twitter

Twitter boss says he has ‘no mercy’ for those who capitalise on deaths of children, citing loss of son in 2002

Daily Mirror

Joe Lycett 'tells the truth' about shredding £10k over David Beckham's Qatar deal

Joe Lycett pulled off a dramatic stunt by shredding £10,000 of his own cash because David Beckham did not pull out of his mega money sponsorship deal with Qatar - but all was not what it seemed

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