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w7voa, 1 month ago to random

Looks like Threads is inhospitable to journalists posting real time information about major international news stories.

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w7voa, 8 months ago to Starlink

CNN: Elon Musk secretly ordered engineers to turn off his company’s #Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt from a new biography. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

Ring announces its employees are no longer spying on you, except in "very limited circumstances."

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

Business Post: Twitter/X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material. https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusive-the-x-files-how-elon-musks-new-rules-allow-hate-to-flourish/

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

Microsoft, after laying off human news editors, has been spotlighting false and bizarre stories.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/tech/microsoft-ai-news/index.html

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

Statement from Media Matter CEO Angelo Carusone regarding Elon Musk’s lawsuit threat.

w7voa, 3 months ago to random

LA Times staffers say ~150 of their colleagues were laid off today in a Zoom webinar by HR with chat disabled and no Q&A.

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) now regards X (formerly Twitter) “as the embodiment of the threat that online platforms pose to democracies.” https://rsf.org/en/twitter-x-elon-musk-s-transformation-free-speech-defender-champion-disinformation

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

CNN — A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Trump’s presidency. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-russia-intelligence-trump-dg/

w7voa, 23 days ago to random

Mastodon forms new US non-profit, announces CEO / Founder @Gargron. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

w7voa, 11 days ago to random

Washington Post: At Mar-a-Lago, Trump asked oil CEOs to raise $1 billion for his campaign and told them if he gets back in the White House he'll immediately reverse dozens of Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being enacted. https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

w7voa, 11 months ago to space

FOIA docs reveal #SpaceX enrolled Elon Musk's jet in a federal program to prevent tracking, failed to implement it properly, then asked for help during the #ElonJet meltdown (in which I was “permanently suspended” from #Twitter). https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kx8wa/emails-show-spacex-bungled-elon-musks-private-jet-privacy

w7voa, 25 days ago to random

FCC restores net neutrality.

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

Walmart no longer advertising on Twitter/X. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/walmart-says-it-is-not-advertising-social-platform-x-2023-12-01/

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

“Let me get this straight. After wailing and moaning for ten months about Hunter Biden and alluding to some vast unproven family conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a subpoena to appear and testify, Chairman Comer and the Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?" - Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

"No woman should be forced to go to court or flee her home state just to receive the health care she needs. But that is exactly what happened in Texas thanks to Republican elected officials, and it is simply outrageous. This should never happen in America, period." - President Biden in a statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/12/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-continued-denials-of-abortion-care/

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

A verified account that has drawn millions of views for posts that lionize Hitler and deny the Holocaust said that it’s been paid $3,000 this year by the platform formerly known as Twitter.
https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/pro-hitler-and-holocaust-denier-account-x-has-paid-me-3000-ad-revenue-sharing

w7voa, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Post News, which sought to be a Twitter alternative, is shutting down. I have 5.8k followers there but rarely use it. I decided I’ve bandwidth for only two platforms after putting my Twitter accounts in suspended animation — Threads is one of them and Mastodon is the other. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

w7voa, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Israel

Washington Post: As false information about the rapidly changing war between Hamas and #Israel proliferated on ‘X’ (#Twitter), owner Elon Musk personally recommended that users follow accounts notorious for promoting lies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/08/israel-hamas-disinfo-musk-twitter-x/

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

WSJ: After payments giant Wirecard reported that ~$2 billion had gone missing from its balance sheet, its COO Jan Marsalek boarded a private jet out of Austria. He landed in Belarus and was whisked by car to Moscow, where he got a Russian passport under an assumed name.

Now, Western authorities say they have reached the unsettling conclusion that Marsalek had likely been a Russian agent for nearly a decade. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/hes-wanted-for-wirecards-missing-2-billion-hes-now-suspected-of-being-a-russian-spy-61d79ee2

w7voa, 7 months ago to random

So-called "verified” users on the former Twitter, who now pay to have a blue check, pushed 74% of the most viral false Israel-Hamas war-related claims, according to a NewsGuard analysis shared with Adweek. “This is another nail in the coffin for X in terms of deteriorating advertisers’ trust,” said Ruben Schreurs, chief strategy officer at independent marketing and media consultancy Ebiquity. https://www.adweek.com/media/verified-accounts-x-spread-wartime-misinformation/

w7voa, 7 months ago to random

Jon Stewart reportedly cancels current affairs show after Apple declines to give him full creative control. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-the-problem-canceled-apple-creative-differences-1235623235/

w7voa, 8 months ago to twitter

"Media Matters ran a test of X’s system for reporting policy violations by flagging 28 posts that specifically claimed that 'Hitler was right' or a 'final solution' is needed for Jewish people. X’s reporting system responded in five instances by telling us those don’t violate the platform’s policies." https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/x-repeatedly-told-us-users-who-posted-hitler-was-right-and-urged-final-solution-jewish #Twitter

w7voa, 21 days ago to random

More European research and academic groups announce they’re leaving Twitter/X. https://connect.geant.org/2024/04/29/%20geant-is-ceasing-activities-on-x-fka-twitter

w7voa, 5 months ago to random

DNA testing company confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users. https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/