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Elon Wants ‘Peasants’ to Get Verified on Twitter as Well… for $US8 ($11) a Month
World’s richest man and newfound Twitter owner Elon Musk said that Twitter’s current verification ecosystem is somehow akin to a medieval caste system, and that the best way to fix that is to allow anyone to be Twitter Verified, as long as you got $US8 ($11) in your wallet.
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Kanye West Says He’s Buying Parler Because ‘Conservative Opinions Are Considered Controversial’
Kanye West says he’s buying Parler, the right-wing social media app that bills itself as an “uncancelable free speech platform” and known for its lax moderation policies. The move comes a little more than a week after Instagram restricted West, who legally changed his name to Ye, on the platform and Twitter locked him out…
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Fast Company Says Apple News Account ‘Hacked’ by Some Racist
The business and technology magazine Fast Company said Tuesday night that its Apple News account had been hacked and that the culprit had used it blast subscribers with racist notifications.
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A Short List of Texas’ Wildest, Most Nonsensical Investigations and Laws Against Big Tech
The Lone Star State is indeed going at it alone against big tech, or at least that’s how it seems by the piles of threadbare allegations, lawsuits, and investigations against the likes of Google, Facebook, and GoFundMe, just to name a few.