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War of tweets erupts between Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Elon Musk: ‘Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8′

Tribune News Service

General Mills latest to halt Twitter ads as Musk takeover sparks brand exodus

Cheerios and Lucky Charms cereal company joins General Motors Co and Audi among others in pulling money from the platform

The Guardian - US

‘Extremely upsetting’: Chicago bar surrounded in controversy after racist puppet show

CHICAGO — On Tuesday, puppeteer Jerry Halliday brought out one of his puppets during a show celebrating Touché's 45th anniversary and put on a performance that attendees have called racist and transphobic — and which has since plunged the bar into controversy.

Chicago Tribune

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Kanye West's controversial Twitter return sparks new accusations of anti-Semitism

Kanye West has returned to Twitter after having his account restricted following a slew of vile anti-Semitic comments, but the rapper has now sparked a fresh controversy

Daily Mirror

Kanye West says he’s going on a ‘verbal fast’: Won’t speak, drink or have sex for 30 days

‘But my Twitter still lit,’ rapper stipulated

The Independent UK

General Mills, Audi pause Twitter ads, will evaluate site

General Mills and Audi are the latest big advertisers to pause ads on Twitter as questions swirl about how the social media platform will operate under new owner Elon Musk

The Independent UK

Amber Heard 'deletes Twitter account' amid ex Elon Musk’s controversial takeover

Aquaman actress Amber Heard appears to have deleted her Twitter account just days after billionaire Elon Musk controversially took over the social media platform

Daily Mirror

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Eric Idle slams Elon Musk’s Twitter verification plans which he says he stole from Monty Python

Billionaire posted sketch about clinic where patients pay for confrontations with professional arguer

The Independent UK

Facebook, Instagram and Twitter warnings as users face being banned

The Advertising Standards Agency can ban people from using Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other apps

Liverpool Echo

Former Eastenders actor warns Elon Musk over removal of verified accounts after groomers stole identity to speak to young fans

Rob Kazinsky, who played Sean Slater in the British soap and well-known character Macklyn Warlow in True Blood, took to Twitter to share his thoughts after Musk announced plans to charge verified users €8 a month to retain the mark

Irish Mirror

Twitter's blue check: Vital verification or status symbol?

Elon Musk wants to change how Twitter doles out its checkmark badges for verified accounts

The Independent UK

Woman horrifies viewers after revealing she didn’t know she was pregnant until doctors saw head

‘While they were doing an ultrasound, my mother saw something familiar on the screen’ Kayla Simpson wrote in the caption of her TikTok video

The Independent UK

AOC accuses Elon Musk of sabotaging her Twitter account: ‘Doesn’t seem very free speechy to me’

‘Why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don’t like?’

The Independent UK

Misinformation thrives on video site popular with far-right

Researchers say nearly 1 in 5 in five videos suggested by YouTube in response to a search for terms related to next week's elections contained misinformation

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - US

Trevor Noah on attack ads: ‘We don’t accept this in any other job’

Late-night hosts discuss mean-spirited campaign attack ads, Maga voter intimidation and Elon Musk’s proposal to add a video paywall to Twitter

Reason

Senator Dick Durbin Doesn't Understand the First Amendment

On Tuesday, the senator erroneously claimed that "free speech does not include spreading misinformation."

The Independent UK

How Elon Musk, Trump and Tucker Carlson helped far-right conspiracy theorists hijack the Paul Pelosi attack

Bogus reports and right-wing influencers spread false information that rapidly outpaced the truth. Court filings and interviews detail a gruesome attack. There was no ‘friend’ in his underwear. Alex Woodward reports

Al Jazeera

Middle East round-up: Netanyahu’s back, back again

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

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Tribune News Service

War of tweets erupts between Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Elon Musk: ‘Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8′

NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked Elon Musk’s plans to charge for a blue Twitter checkmark, sparking a war of tweets that continued through Wednesday night.

Salon

Is this dystopia? Not quite yet

We've been here before, and worse. We can still turn things around in America — but we must decide we want to

Benzinga

Musk's Twitter Takeover Incites Complaints From Celebs Who Voice To Quit Platform

A small but growing number of celebrities, actors, and artists preferred to dump Twitter Inc after Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's takeover, the Wall Street Journal

Tribune News Service

Tesla's Twitter overhang has only just begun

The phrase “Twitter overhang” was inescapable among Elon Musk’s biggest fans on the social media platform he started pursuing seven months ago.

Liverpool Echo

EastEnders soap star warns Twitter's verification costs could put people in danger

He warned that lack of verification online could open the door to more predators and scammers

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Meta and Twitter show the drawbacks of giving self-satisfied billionaires too much power

Back in the prehistoric era — in 2012, when Facebook staged one of the most hyped initial public stock offerings of all time — I warned the company's newly minted shareholders that they had become wedded to Mark Zuckerberg.

Evening Standard

My Instagram tattoo studio hell can serve as a warning to us all

Cast your mind back to last Wednesday evening, 9pm to be exact. What were you doing? Perhaps you were curled up on the sofa reading a book, maybe finishing the last of your dinner. Cherishing the precious moments of leisure we have on the ever-accelerating hamster wheel of life.

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