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    Microsoft cancels in-person plans for CES, joining Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, amid ongoing concerns over COVID-19 (Elizabeth Lopatto/T

    Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Microsoft cancels in-person plans for CES, joining Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, amid ongoing concerns over COVID-19 — Microsoft joins Intel, GM, Amazon, and Google in canceling — Microsoft is the latest company to drop a physical presence at CES...
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    Amid COVID-19 concerns, Google, GM, and Waymo cancel in-person plans for CES, following Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, while Intel scales back its

    Sean Hollister / The Verge: Amid COVID-19 concerns, Google, GM, and Waymo cancel in-person plans for CES, following Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, while Intel scales back its presence — The world's biggest technology show may not be — CES, the world's largest technology show, appears to...
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    Marc Andressen blocks Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets that were critical of a16z and Web3, Dorsey then tweets "I'm officially banned from

    Richard Lawler / The Verge: Marc Andressen blocks Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets that were critical of a16z and Web3, Dorsey then tweets “I'm officially banned from web3” — The venture capitalist blocked the former Twitter CEO, and Dorsey said he's now ‘banned from Web3’
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    Amid COVID-19 concerns, Meta, Pinterest, and Twitter cancel in-person CES plans, while T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence, as others monitor con

    Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Amid COVID-19 concerns, Meta, Pinterest, and Twitter cancel in-person CES plans, while T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence, as others monitor conditions — - Google, HTC, Samsung and Sony still currently plan to go — Host of CES conference remains steadfast in...
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    Investigation details China's social media propaganda machine, which uses private contractors to generate content to spread on Facebook and Twitter (N

    New York Times: Investigation details China's social media propaganda machine, which uses private contractors to generate content to spread on Facebook and Twitter — Register accounts on foreign social media platforms — 按月报单 价 — 境外.交&#24179 …
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    Profile of Bret Taylor, recently made co-CEO of Salesforce and chairman of Twitter, who joined Salesforce in 2016 after stints at Google and Facebook

    Wall Street Journal: Profile of Bret Taylor, recently made co-CEO of Salesforce and chairman of Twitter, who joined Salesforce in 2016 after stints at Google and Facebook — Promotions to co-CEO of Salesforce and chairman of Twitter have turned the Silicon Valley entrepreneur into one of tech's...
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    Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

    Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of...
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    Zoom joins the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to combat terrorist and extremist content

    Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: Zoom joins the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to combat terrorist and extremist content — Video-conferencing platform Zoom has joined a counterterrorism organization formed by major U.S. tech companies...
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    Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible

    Starting today, Twitter is rolling out auto-generated captions on videos. This feature will make videos more accessible for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Auto captions will be available on web, iOS and Android in over thirty languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Thai...
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    Twitter rolls out automatic captions for videos, with support for over 30 languages, but not for previously uploaded videos (Amanda Silberling/TechCru

    Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitter rolls out automatic captions for videos, with support for over 30 languages, but not for previously uploaded videos — Starting today, Twitter is rolling out auto-generated captions on videos. This feature will make videos more accessible for Deaf and...
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    Former Twitter India head leaving firm to start an edtech platform

    Manish Maheshwari, the former head of Twitter India who recently moved to San Francisco to work at a different division within the company, is leaving the firm to launch an edtech startup, according to nine people familiar with the matter.Maheshwari and Twitter didn’t respond to a request for...
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    Indian Prime Minister Modi’s Twitter account was ‘briefly compromised’

    The Twitter account of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “briefly compromised” on Sunday, his office said.Modi’s account — whose handle is @narendramodi — tweeted after the midnight that India had officially adopted bitcoin as a legal tender, prompting suspicions about a hack because of...
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    Narendra Modi's Twitter account was briefly compromised, tweeting that India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and linking to a sketchy website (Man

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Narendra Modi's Twitter account was briefly compromised, tweeting that India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and linking to a sketchy website — The Twitter account of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “briefly compromised” on Sunday, his office said.
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    Apple iCloud, Twitter and Minecraft vulnerable to ‘ubiquitous’ zero-day exploit

    A number of popular services, including Apple iCloud, Twitter, Cloudflare, Minecraft and Steam, are reportedly vulnerable to a zero-day exploit affecting a popular Java logging library.The vulnerability, dubbed “Log4Shell” by researchers at LunaSec and credited to Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, has...
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    Sources: Kayvon Beykpour and other execs ignored warnings that Twitter lacked the ability to moderate Spaces and launched the product amid investor pr

    Washington Post: Sources: Kayvon Beykpour and other execs ignored warnings that Twitter lacked the ability to moderate Spaces and launched the product amid investor pressure — Employees who complained about the lack of moderation say they were sidelined — Earlier this year, as Twitter raced...
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    Twitter tests turning its in-app explore page into a TikTok-like feed with For You and Trending tabs, amid similar experiments from Netflix, Spotify,

    Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitter tests turning its in-app explore page into a TikTok-like feed with For You and Trending tabs, amid similar experiments from Netflix, Spotify, and Reddit — Twitter posted today that its testing a feature that would turn its in-app explore page into a...
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    Twitter is the latest platform to test a TikTok copycat feature

    Twitter posted today that its testing a feature that would turn its in-app explore page into a TikTok-like video feed, complete with even a “For You” tab. This feature is testing on both Android and iOS for users in certain countries who use Twitter in English.Twitter is the latest social app...
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    A look at Twitter's Project Guardian, a secretive list of thousands of highly targeted users that helps moderators respond more quickly to their compl

    Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: A look at Twitter's Project Guardian, a secretive list of thousands of highly targeted users that helps moderators respond more quickly to their complaints — ‘Project Guardian’ aims to protect prominent tweeters from abuse, harassment — Twitter Inc.'s highest-profile...
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    Twitter is testing a new process for reporting harmful tweets that lets US users describe what happened, and will use this data to improve its respons

    Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitter is testing a new process for reporting harmful tweets that lets US users describe what happened, and will use this data to improve its responses — Twitter is trying out some changes to the way that users report tweets that they believe might break...
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    Sources: Parag Agrawal was Jack Dorsey's only serious candidate to replace him as Twitter CEO and Elliott Management did not demand that Dorsey resign

    Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Sources: Parag Agrawal was Jack Dorsey's only serious candidate to replace him as Twitter CEO and Elliott Management did not demand that Dorsey resign — Activist investor Elliott Management cranked up pressure for the social network's board to set a succession plan