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Nude photos, arrest threats and Elon Musk: GOP airs grievances at ‘bizarre’ Twitter hearing

Republicans are using their new House majority to air two-year-old grievances about a New York Post story that was temporarily restricted from distribution on Twitter in October 2020

The Independent UK

Russian Propaganda Has Succeeded in Persuading Credulous Americans That It Poses a Grave Threat to Democracy

Alarmists are unfazed by the lack of evidence that "foreign influence campaigns" have affected public opinion or voting behavior.

Reason

Twitter Files: Employees Knew the Media's Favorite Russian Bots List Was Fake

"I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is."

Reason

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Elon Musk ‘doesn’t seem like’ right person to own Twitter, says co-founder

Biz Stone, one of quartet who set up company, says positive changes he oversaw have been undone by Tesla chief executive

The Guardian - UK

Did 'Every Conspiracy Theory' About Twitter Turn Out To Be True?

The internal company documents offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the federal agencies distorted the public debate on one of the world's largest social media platforms.

Reason

Under Government Pressure, Twitter Suppressed Truthful Speech About COVID-19

The company's broad definition of "misleading information" and its deference to authority invited censorship by proxy.

Reason

Elon Musk stoked a storm of homophobic harassment against a former Twitter executive. Here’s the real story

The world’s richest person twisted the words of his former employee Yoel Roth to imply that he was an enabler of child abuse, Io Dodds reports

The Independent UK

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Musk’s frequent Twitter polls are at risk of bot manipulation

New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk has outsourced several controversial decisions — like whether to reinstate former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account, and if he should leave the Twitter CEO job — to public polling on the network, saying he intends to follow the will of the people. But the…

Tribune News Service

Anti-LGBTQ hate thrives online, spurs fears of more violence

Hate speech and threats of violence targeting transgender people and other LGBTQ individuals is thriving on social media and spurring fears of more violence

The Independent UK

Michael Hiltzik: By embracing anti-Fauci and QAnon conspiracies, Musk tests how low Twitter can sink

People trying to track the intellectual and moral deterioration of Twitter under its new owner, Elon Musk, have gotten a few more data points to work with in recent days.

Los Angeles Times

Elon Musk stoked a storm of homophobic harassment against a former Twitter executive. Here’s the real story

The world’s richest person twisted the words of his former employee Yoel Roth to imply that he was an enabler of child abuse, Io Dodds reports

The Independent UK

Elon Musk’s Twitter Is a Shakespearean Psychodrama Set in Silicon Valley

He’s ruling his newest acquisition the way he rules the rest of his empire: impulsively, erratically, vindictively, loudly. It really doesn’t need to be this way.

Businessweek

Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

The Twitter CEO's selective release of internal communications largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.

WEKU

Elon Musk Lets Loose Another Batch Of Twitter Files That Point To Existence Of ‘Secret Blacklists’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has made public the second tranche of “Twitter Files” that point to the existence of secret blacklists.

Zenger

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The Guardian - UK

TechScape: I read Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ so you don’t have to

In this week’s newsletter: The leaks don’t reveal a hotbed of leftwing bias at the social media company – just a thin-skinned billionaire rehashing culture wars of years past

Salon

Griner's release exposes GOP homophobia

As Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, anti-gay Republican rhetoric becomes nastier and scarier

Asharq Al-Awsat

Musk Relaunches Twitter Blue after Fake Account Fiasco

Elon Musk relaunched a Twitter subscription service on Monday after a first attempt saw an embarrassing spate of fake accounts that scared advertisers and cast doubt on the site's future. The first try last month came just 10 days after Musk's $44 billion takeover of the platform and a mass…

The Guardian - US

Twitter abruptly dissolves safety council moments before meeting

The firm’s turmoil appears to deepen since Elon Musk’s takeover with Yoel Roth forced to flee home amid personal attacks

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The Independent UK

Ex-Twitter executive forced to flee home due to Elon Musk-fuelled threats against him

Billionaire falsely claimed that Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, is an advocate for child sexualization

The Independent UK

Elon Musk stoked a storm of homophobic harassment against a former Twitter executive. Here’s the real story

The world’s richest person twisted the words of his former employee Yoel Roth to imply that he was an enabler of child abuse, Io Dodds reports

Reason

Twitter Files: FBI, DHS Reported Tweets for Election Misinformation

Content moderators had "weekly confabs" with law enforcement officials, reports Matt Taibbi.

Al Jazeera

Twitter had ‘secret blacklists’ to limit users, journalist claims

Independent journalist Bari Weiss says platform restricted visibility of ‘disfavored tweets’.

The Independent UK

The truth of Twitter’s role in the Hunter Biden laptop story and it’s not what you think

Former FBI counterintelligence officials tell Andrew Feinberg it would have been unusual for there not to have been any contact between the bureau and social media giants

The Independent UK

QAnon, white nationalists and hate speech: Experts reveal how the floodgates opened on Elon Musk’s Twitter

Those who specialise in monitoring the spread of disinformation say ‘trust and safety are dead’ on the social media platform. Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job

As Elon Musk is finding out, running a global social media platform requires more than a few good algorithms

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