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Amazon, FBI.gov, and 70,000 Other Sites Are Sending Your Data to Elon’s Twitter, New Research Says
In October, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for a cool $US44 ($61) billion dollars. Among a variety of other assets and headaches, the deal came with one resource that’s gone under-explored: a vast data collection network spanning the sites of more than 70,000 Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, non-profits, universities, and more. Given Twitter’s history of…
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Janitors Picket Outside Twitter’s HQ in Elon’s Latest Mess
Janitors are the latest group of workers left in limbo by the ongoing drama happening over at Twitter. The company reportedly terminated the contract that employed the striking janitors, according to the California Labour Federation (CLF). Elizabeth Strater, the communications director at CLF told Gizmodo in an email that at this point, the plan is…
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Twitter Wants to Drop More Unwanted Tweets in Users’ Timelines
Twitter apparently thinks everybody’s very satisfied with their Instagram feed that’s so loaded with “suggested” content users have to scroll and scroll and scroll before they see posts from their friends or the folks they follow. Now in the post-Musk world, the blue bird app might be going the same way.
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Elon Musk Praises Improved ‘Community Notes’ as Community Flags His Fake News Post
Twitter updated its Community Notes feature (formerly known as Birdwatch) on Friday, according to a set of posts from a company Twitter account. With the update, Community Notes are now, once again, subject to “scoring,” in which site users can vote on whether or not a note is useful. Additionally, an algorithm change will supposedly…