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Elon Musk delays launch of flagship Twitter project indefinitely

The Twitter verification rollout has been postponed indefinitely with Elon Musk now considering using different color checkmarks for notable people.

Fortune

MPs slam ‘naive’ and ‘irresponsible’ rules allowing them to claim expenses for Christmas parties

A government watchdog has told MPs they can claim the cost of food, drink and “festive decorations”

Manchester Evening News

TechScape: How do you slice a billion-dollar crypto bankruptcy pie?

The 50 biggest claims against FTX total $3.1bn. Now a US court has to determine who gets what – if anything. Plus, what will be more valuable by the end of the year: Musk’s stake in Twitter, or a lettuce?

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Hive social network nabs one million users amid Twitter turmoil

The hot app offers features familiar from Twitter, Instagram and even MySpace

Evening Standard

Elon Musk rules out Twitter return for Sandy Hook conspiracist Alex Jones

Kanye West and Donald Trump are back online but Alex Jones will not be joining them, Elon Musk has said

Evening Standard

Elon Musk delays Twitter Blue verified badge relaunch due to impersonation fears

Brands and celebrities have been impersonated by troll accounts and a number of major companies have reportedly suspended advertising on Twitter

Evening Standard

Will Bunch: Billionaires like Musk, Bankman-Fried didn't save the world. They wrecked it. Let's take it back

After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

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Twitter tech glitches mount as staffers depart

The service is less likely to suffer the catastrophic failure some users fear than to break down in smaller ways over time.

Axios

Elon Musk responds to ‘crybaby’ Trent Reznor after Nine Inch Nails frontman exits Twitter

Musician called Musk’s takeover of Twitter ‘embarassing’

The Independent UK

Musk Says Twitter to Hold Off Relaunching Blue Check Verification

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk said on Monday the social media company is holding off the relaunch of its blue check subscription service, a delay from his initial tentative timeline to bring back the service on the platform. "Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘It’s always fear-based’: why sexual health projects should switch the focus to pleasure

After decades of emphasis on STIs, HIV, Aids and unwanted pregnancy, a wave of initiatives around the world are using a more sex-positive narrative

The Guardian - UK

Trump news – live: Supreme Court allows handover of Trump tax returns to Congress, as fraud case reaches climax

Democrat-led committees have until when the next Congress is sworn in to review the returns and take action

The Independent UK

Civil rights groups urge Twitter ad boycott over Trump return

WASHINGTON — Civil rights leaders are urging major advertisers to stay away from Twitter after Elon Musk, the company’s new billionaire owner, reinstated former President Donald Trump over the weekend.

Tribune News Service

Thinking of breaking up with Twitter? Here’s the right way to do it

After a few chaotic weeks it’s clear Elon Musk is intent on taking Twitter in a direction that’s at odds with the prevailing cultures of the diverse users who call it home.

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

Reason

The Empire Strikes Back, at Elon

Episode 431 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Daily Mirror

Elon Musk opens up on family tragedy after calls to let Sandyhook denier back on Twitter

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay almost $1bn to the families of victims who were killed in the 2012 Sandyhook elementary school shooting in Connecticut

Tribune News Service

Elon Musk explains why he's keeping Alex Jones off Twitter

Keeping “InfoWars” host Alex Jones off Twitter appears to be something Elon Musk is taking personally.

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Reason

Mastodon or Mastodon't?

I have been Twitter sober now for nearly three years. I do not miss it at all. And I do not plan to join Mastodon, because if it survives (no guarantee), the site will suffer from the same flaws as Twitter. Social media is premised on a simple idea: Person…

The Conversation

What Elon Musk's destruction of Twitter tells us about the future of social media

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been a fast-moving disaster. It has also created a tangible problem for journalists, politicians, activists and academic scholars: Where do we talk to each other if or when Twitter finally collapses or becomes unusable?

Salon

Musk blocks Alex Jones' Twitter return

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

Daily Mirror

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

Reason

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]

The Independent UK

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

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