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Disney’s Bob Iger, Who Also Backed Out of Buying Twitter, Says Lots of Users Were Bots
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s excuse for trying to back out of his $US44 ($61) billion deal to buy Twitter — too many bots, he says — is gaining steam. First, it was the Twitter whistleblower’s claims. Then, on Wednesday, Musk received an assist from former Disney CEO Bob Iger, who had wanted to buy Twitter…
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‘Your Tweets Aren’t for Everyone:’ Twitter Rolls out Circle Feature to Keep Individual Tweets Private
Users involved in the pilot of the feature tweeted more and had more engagement with their tweets, the company said.
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Twitter Is Mixing Its Anti-Spam and Content Moderation Teams After Whistleblower Accusations
Twitter is facing challenges on multiple fronts. The company is tied up in a legal fight over Elon Musk’s will-he-won’t-he acquisition. And earlier this week, whistleblower allegations brought renewed scrutiny to the platform’s possibly sub-par security practices.
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Here’s What Twitter Says It’s Doing to Protect the 2022 Midterms
Twitter, which has a spotty history of applying policies governing misinformation, hate speech, and inciting rhetoric from government officials, elected representatives, and unverified propagandists, said Thursday that it is working to ensure “healthy civic conversation” ahead of the U.S. midterms.