Election administrators across the United States say they’re concerned their offices will be targeted for fake #Twitter accounts that will confuse or mislead voters after the social media platform altered its long-standing check mark verification service.
#Voting #Misinformation
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-verification-blue-check-elections-elon-musk-5df36ed183d16ec3bf99446e6827bcdd
NEW YORK (AP) — Tracking down accurate information about Philadelphia's elections on Twitter used to be easy. The account for the city commissioners who run elections, @phillyvotes, was the only one carrying a blue check mark, a sign of authenticity.
#ElonMusk's tenure as #Twitter CEO is coming to an end. Musk today announced he's finally found someone to replace him as chief executive of the social media company. But the person's identity remains a mystery.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-selects-new-twitter-ceo-let-the-speculation-begin
Former NBCUniversal ad chief #LindaYaccarino named CEO of #Twitter
#ElonMusk tweeted that Yaccarino "will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology."
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nbcuniversal-ad-chief-leaves-twitter-rcna84128
#Twitter faces criticism for restricting content in #Turkey ahead of Sunday's #election.
"In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today," Twitter's Global Government Affairs account tweeted in both English and Turkish Friday night.
#ElonMusk: "The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?"
Twitter is facing criticism for restricting content in Turkey ahead of Sunday’s election. “In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today,” the company’s Global Government Affairs account tweeted in both English and Turkish on Friday night.…
Twitter wrong to block tweets during Turkey election, says Wikipedia founder
#Twitter sued over #Saudi spying that allegedly landed popular user in prison
#SaudiArabia became a top shareholder while its spies infiltrated Twitter.
Musk says he'll keep tweeting whatever he wants even if it repels advertisers
If the consequences of his tweeting "is losing money, so be it," Musk said.
#Twitter 'Shadowbans' #Bellingcat After #ElonMusk Attacks Them, Then Tries To Retcon A Nonsense Explanation
Remember, according to Elon Musk, one of the worst things that old Twitter did was “shadowban” people. There was a whole “Twitter Files” about the practice, which Musk insisted was a horrible pract…
Last week #Bellingcat tweeted:
New: Bellingcat has been given access to over 140 #satellite images showing activity at a #Crimean shipping terminal that some reports have claimed has been enabling the transportation of #StolenUkrainianGrain by #Russia
#Ukraine
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/05/11/grain-trail-tracking-russias-ghost-ships-with-satellite-imagery/
Twitter claims Microsoft broke API rules; Musk already threatened lawsuit
Twitter demands Microsoft audit a month after Musk declared, "Lawsuit time."
#ElonMusk told a #Twitter advisor at 4 a.m. that the company would only pay rent over his 'dead body,' lawsuit says
Six former Twitter employees filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and the company on Tuesday.
The suit said Musk's attorney justified not paying rent and described #SanFrancisco as a "shithole."
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5
An engineering chief at #Twitter says he is leaving the company a day after the launch of #RonDeSantis' #UnitedStates presidential campaign on the platform was hit with technical glitches.
#Twitter Withdraws From #EuropeanUnion #Disinformation Code, Commissioner Says
Twitter exited the voluntary European Union's Code of Practice on Disinformation, the bloc’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said.
Twitter Inc. was earlier this year the only major tech platform that didn't send a complete report to the European Union under the code, which the company agreed to follow before it was taken over by #ElonMusk in late 2022.
https://time.com/6283183/twitter-withdraws-from-eu-disinformation-code-commissioner-says/
#Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of #HateSpeech posted by #TwitterBlue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew #racism and #homophobia.
#ElonMusk's #Twitter loses second trust and safety chief
Ella Irwin took the post when previous head Yoel Roth left in November 2022 - a month after Mr Musk took over the company.
The head of trust and safety is tasked with content moderation, a topic which has come under the spotlight since Musk's takeover.
The reason for Irwin's resignation is unclear.
It comes a week after the social media platform pulled out of the EU's voluntary code to fight disinformation.
Right-wingers were furious at #ElonMusk after "What is a Woman?", a 2022 online film by The Daily Wire's #MattWalsh that urges intolerance of #trans people and opposes #GenderAffirmingCare for trans children, had its visibility slashed on the platform for violating rules on hateful conduct.
In a tweet hours later to his millions of followers, Musk himself shared the video and declared "Every parent should watch this."
#Twitter #LGBTQIA
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6
#ElonMusk's Reign as #Twitter CEO Ends
New CEO #LindaYaccarino now faces the tough task of bringing advertising clients back to Twitter when the company's ad revenue has reportedly plunged 59% in the last year.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musks-reign-as-twitter-ceo-ends
#ElonMusic publishers sue #Twitter, slam #ElonMusk for calling #DMCA a "plague on humanity"
Publishers sue after licensing talks between Twitter and record labels stalled.
Twitter to be 'most accurate info source', says new boss Linda Yaccarino
Twitter is being sued by a group of 17 music publishers for allowing users to share music on its platform without a license.
The lawsuit claims Twitter 'breeds massive copyright infringement that harms music creators.'
https://www.pcmag.com/news/17-music-publishers-sue-twitter-for-copyright-infringement
#Twitter Resumes Paying #GoogleCloud, Patches Up Relationship
New Twitter CEO Yaccarino help restart Google Cloud payments
Under #ElonMusk, Twitter stopped paying a number of suppliers
#Twitter may face fines in #Australia over #HateSpeech
Australia's online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking to combat online hate or risk being slapped with fines.
The letter gives Twitter 28 days to respond or face fines of Aus $700,000 (about US $475,000).
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/21/twitter-hate-speech-fines-australia
#India court rejects #Twitter's lawsuit against government challenging block orders
The Karnataka High Court dismissed the high-profile plea, filed last year, and also fined the #ElonMusk-owned firm 5 million Indian rupees ($61,000). The court observed that despite being issued notices, Twitter did not provide reasons for why it delayed compliance to the amendments to India's IT rules.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/29/court-dismisses-twitter-plea-against-india-government/
Elon Musk tweets:
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
#Twitter #TwitterBlue
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
Edward Snowden quote tweets Elon Musk:
This broke Twitter for me, making it impossible for me to engage as I have for years. I *post* from a dedicated, logged-in session because there is no alternative, but as a target of state surveillance orders, I *read* via anon sessions (nitter) on a diff VM. Now I can't.
Twitter is trying to fix the verified DM spam problem it created
The company will automatically change users' DM settings.
In a post announcing the latest change, Twitter's support account seemed to acknowledge the prevalence of spammy DMs from verified accounts. "We're adding a new messages setting that should help reduce the number of spam messages in DMs," it wrote.
Elon Musk says Twitter's cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops 50%
"Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else," Musk said in a tweet replying to suggestions on recapitalization.
Twitter's cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load, Elon Musk said on Saturday, <a href="/technology/twitters-musk-says-can-raise-revenue-with-more-relevant-ads-2023-03-07/">falling short of his expectation</a> in March that Twitter could reach cash flow positive by June.
Twitter Removes Fact-Check on Musk's Bronny James Vax Post
Elon Musk responded to an article about the cardiac arrest of Bronny James on Tuesday by irresponsibly invoking COVID vaccines.
A fact-check through the platform's Community Notes feature soon appeared alongside Musk's tweet noting that the risk of myocarditis, a rare condition characterized by inflammation of heart muscle, is much higher for patients after a COVID infection rather than after a COVID vaccine.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-removes-fact-check-on-musks-bronny-james-vax-post
'X' logo installed atop #Twitter building, spurring San Francisco to investigate permit violation
The new metal X marker appeared after police stopped workers on Monday, July 24, from removing the iconic bird and logo, saying they didn't have the proper permits and didn't tape off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell.
San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up Friday on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Billionaire Elon Musk, who bought the platform, announced the name change this week. He tried to remove the iconic Twitter sign and blue bird on Monday, but workers were stopped for safety reasons. San Francisco's building inspection department also said Musk would need permits to change the sign. On Friday, a spokesman for the department said Musk still needs permits to make sure anything erected on top of the building is sound and safely installed.
X, formerly known as Twitter, has had to remove the sign on its HQ and will have to pay associated costs.
Elon Musk: Japan issues rare warning over fake X account
The account on the platform formerly known as Twitter impersonated Japan's top currency diplomat.
Ramaswamy suggests he would run government like Musk does X
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suggested Friday if elected in 2024, he would run the government like tech billionaire Elon Musk runs the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. “What [Musk] did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do to the administrative state,” Ramaswamy said in an interview…
X removes Holocaust-denying post after Auschwitz Museum criticism
The Auschwitz Museum reported the post but was initially told by X it did not break safety rules.
Elon Musk Ponders Twitter Poll on Banning Anti-Defamation League From 'Free Speech' Site
The supposed free-speech warrior, who has reversed the Twitter bans of racist and antisemitic accounts, is now considering booting the civil rights group from the site.
The initial impetus behind the campaign appears to be a meeting ADL president Jonathan Greenblatt had with Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino about addressing the rampant hate speech on the site.
'Weak, Weak Man' Elon Musk Mocked On Own Website Over Latest Meltdown
Critics are firing back after he threatened to sue one of his company's most prominent critics.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-mocked-adl-lawsuit_n_64f6b25ae4b039d86651d87c
Twitter whistleblower joining Biden administration
A famed hacker and former Twitter employee who alleged widespread security deficiencies at the company is joining the Biden administration via a job with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The whistleblower, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, will be joining in a part-time position at the agency, CISA announced Tuesday. The news was first reported by The Washington Post.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4187618-twitter-whistleblower-joining-biden-administration/
A famed hacker and former Twitter employee who alleged widespread security deficiencies at the company is joining the Biden administration via a job with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The whistleblower, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, will be joining in a part-time position at the agency, CISA announced Tuesday. The news was first reported by The…
Report Finds Musk Is Doing Little to Remove Neo-Nazi Posts
Research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate claims the billionaire's social media platform is knowingly ignoring posts filled with hate speech.
Elon Musk Slammed by Second Country in Disastrous Week for Diplomacy
The world's richest man drew a rebuke from Taiwan’s foreign ministry just days after being called out by Ukrainian officials.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-slammed-by-taiwan-over-china-comments
X will now tell you if someone deletes a post you annotated with a Community Note
The company formerly known as Twitter is giving Community Notes writers another tool to keep users accountable, but there is worry it could be used to unnecessarily shame other people.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23875891/x-community-note-delete-post
If you add a Community Post to a post on X (formerly Twitter), X will now tell you if the person who wrote the post deletes it. The idea here seems to be to give people with the ability to add Community Notes another tool to keep other users accountable.
X continues to throttle links to competitors
An analysis by The Markup has found that X makes users wait about two and a half seconds to access links to Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and Substack.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23875251/x-twitter-links-throttling-facebook-instagram-threads
Elon Musk: Social media platform X could go behind paywall
The BBC approached X for further details but has not yet received a statement from the company.
It is unclear whether this was just an off-the-cuff comment, or a signal of firmer plans that have yet to be announced.
X ranks the lowest among all social media in combating #climate #disinformation, study finds
While #YouTube, #Meta, and #TikTok are taking action to combat falsehoods about the climate, enforcement is lacking. But Elon Musk's X (formerly #Twitter) is doing an even worse job, a new report shows.
#ClimateChange
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23882774/x-climate-misinformation-study-climate-action-disinformation
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