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Deplatforming online extremists reduces their followers – but there's a price

Conspiracy theorist and US far-right media personality Alex Jones was recently ordered to pay US$45 million (£37 million) damages to the family of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.

The Conversation

‘I’m afraid’: critics of anti-cheating technology for students hit by lawsuits

New technology meant to detect cheating by students taking tests at home could invade privacy, increase anxiety and be discriminatory

The Guardian - US

Mary McNamara: The social anxiety of social media has celebrities 'quiet quitting.' Here's why

Maybe we should start calling it social-anxiety media.

Los Angeles Times

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Fears for China’s Twitter users after ethical ‘compromise’ claims

Peiter Zatko’s allegations raise questions about big tech’s responsibility towards users in authoritarian countries.

Al Jazeera

Marjorie Taylor Greene endorses claim that masks give you lung cancer, brain damage and Covid

Georgia congresswoman retweets YouTuber celebrating return of conspiracies to platform

The Independent UK

Judge orders more document production in Musk-Twitter suit

The Delaware judge presiding over Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit to prevent billionaire Elon Musk from backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company has ordered both sides to turn over more information to opposing lawyers

The Independent UK

'Bat S*%# Crazy': Elon Musk Targets Tesla Safety Group's 'Child Dummy' Test In Tweet

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter Thursday to respond to a screenshot posted by Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) of a blog post from The Dawn Project’s website written by the safety group’s CEO and founder Dan O’Dowd.

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Mark Zuckerberg takes a swipe at Twitter over handling of Hunter Biden laptop story

‘What Twitter did is they said ‘you can’t share this at all.’ We didn’t do that,’ the Facebook founder tells Joe Rogan

The Independent UK

Twitter can play podcasts now, too

Twitter is testing a redesign of its Spaces tab that puts recorded audio conversations and professional podcast side by side.

Input

The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia’s repression: the rebranding of Riyadh won’t wash

Editorial: The Leeds student Salma al-Shehab has been jailed for 34 years over Twitter messages. Governments and businesses should speak up

The Guardian - UK

British Airways travel warning over lost luggage scam accounts

Passengers are warned not to share any personal details to unofficial social media accounts.

Daily Record

New Filings Reveal SEC Asked Twitter About Spam Accounts

It turns out Tesla's Elon Musk wasn't alone in wondering what was going on with Twitter's spam accounts, though the SEC filing doesn't mention a dispute.

InsideEVs

Lloyds Bank issue statement as online and app service goes down

Problems with Lloyds online and mobile banking began at 10am

Liverpool Echo

Benzinga Before The Bell: Twitter Whistleblower Peiter Zatko To Depose Before Senate Panel, GameStop To Boost Employee Compensation To Drive Growth, California Proposes Total Ban On New Gasoline Car Sales By 2035 And Other Top Financial Stories Thursday, August 25

Reuters Stuck By Chip Shortage, Stellantis Halts Production In Sochaux Plant

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Musk Lawyers Seize on Twitter Whistleblower Revelations

Elon Musk's lawyers jumped Wednesday on the revelations of a Twitter whistleblower to try to force the platform to surrender vast amounts of information for their fight to cancel the billionaire's buyout bid. The Tesla boss's team told a US judge the former Twitter security chief's allegations of major security…

Reason

Brickbat: America's Ally

A Saudi court has sentenced Salma al-Shehab to 34 years in prison after she was found guilty of using the Internet to "cause public unrest and destabilize civil and national security" for following and retweeting dissidents and activists on Twitter. The trial court sentenced her originally to three years in…

Al Jazeera

Meta, Twitter bust ‘deceptive’ pro-US influence campaign: report

Fake accounts promoted pro-Western narratives while trying to discredit China, Russia and Iran, researchers say.

The Independent UK

Congress wants to hear what Twitter whistleblower has to say

U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter’s former security chief, who has alarmed Washington with allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts

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Twitter whistle-blower will be star witness in Congress

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing featuring testimony from Twitter whistle-blower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko on Sept. 13, the panel’s leaders announced on Wednesday.

The New Daily

Facebook users report bizarre glitches, random celebrity comments

Facebook users are reporting widespread problems with the social media network, as a bizarre glitch causes feeds to show random comments to celebrities.

Input

Hackers are being incentivized with worthless NFT to return stolen funds

Nomad Bridge was hacked at the beginning of the month, losing close to $200M in what was a copy-paste exploit.

Benzinga

Hot Take: Twitter Investors Should Buy The Dip Amid Whistleblower Allegations

A whistleblower complaint against Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) claimed the company may not be 100% truthful with its claims of the impact of bots and spam accounts.

Tribune News Service

Meta removes fake accounts tied to pro-US influence campaign

A covert online persuasion campaign to cast the U.S. and its allies in a positive light in the Middle East and Central Asia — as well as to bash its adversaries — was disrupted by Meta Platforms Inc. and Twitter Inc., which have removed the “inauthentic” accounts from their platforms,…

Tribune News Service

Twitter attorney says bot data given to Musk was ‘explicitly an estimate’

Twitter Inc. provided data for spam and robot accounts that was “explicitly an estimate” to billionaire Elon Musk, who hasn’t shown any reason why that information is relevant to his plan to ditch a $44 billion buyout of the social-media platform, the company’s lawyer told a Delaware judge.

Reason

The Babylon Bee's Kyle Mann: 'I'm No More Deserving of God's Grace Than a Transgender Person Is'

The Christian satire site's editor on defying Twitter bans, flaying Gen Z's super-thin skin, and being funny while pious.

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