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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.

The Conversation

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

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The Empire Strikes Back, at Elon

Episode 431 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

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

Daily Mirror

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.

Tribune News Service

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…

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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?

The Conversation

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

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

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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

Evening Standard

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

Axios

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."

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Tribune News Service

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.

Reason

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,…

The Independent UK

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.

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