Tag: Tech
Elon Musk Ran A Twitter Poll On Whether He Should Step Down As The Platform’s CEO. The Resounding Answer: Yes.
Responding to another user, Musk said, “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive.” If Musk stands down, it will mark the end of a tumultuous and damaging period for the billionaire. He is no longer the world’s richest person,…
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Twitter Just Banned Posting Links To Other Social Platforms
The new policy was announced just as Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz’s account was restored after being suspended on Saturday night. At the time of her suspension, Lorenz had deleted all but three tweets, two of which encouraged people to follow her elsewhere. The third tweet was Lorenz replying to…
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Elon Musk Appeared In A Twitter Space To Defend His Decision To Ban Journalists Who Reported On An Account That Tracked His Private Jet
Hours after Twitter “permanently suspended” more than half a dozen journalists from outlets including CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post following their reporting on an account related to Elon Musk, the man himself showed up briefly in a Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie…
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“I Can’t Let Him Win Now”: The Student Behind The Suspended Twitter Account That Tracked Elon Musk’s Private Jet Vowed To Fight On
The “commotion” Sweeney was referring to was his tweets in which he claimed that @ElonJet had been suppressed by Twitter’s moderation system as of Dec. 2. Sweeney posted a screenshot allegedly showing Ella Erwin, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, asking that team members “apply heavy VF [visibility filtering]…
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Here’s The Best Thing To Post On Instagram’s New Notes Feature
On Tuesday, Instagram launched a new feature called Notes. It lives in the Message section of Instagram and allows people to post a sort of status update, kind of like a Story, but text-only. It’s a lot like the old AIM away messages: You can only post one Note at…
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Elon Musk Bounced From A Twitter Space After A Journalist He Suspended Tried To Ask Him Why He Was Banned
Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell, one of the suspended reporters, said that he hadn’t posted Musk’s address on Twitter. “You posted a link to the address,” Musk shot back. “In the course of reporting about ElonJet, we posted links to ElonJet, which are now not online, and now banned…
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