Saturday, December 3, 2022

Elon Musk thinks the "Twitter Files" show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision  —  Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …



Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013 (Lydia O'Connor/HuffPost)

Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013  —  Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants.  —  Andrew Anglin &#8213 …



Sources: Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange is trying to recover $900M owed to it by Genesis Global and Genesis' parent company Digital Currency Group (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange is trying to recover $900M owed to it by Genesis Global and Genesis' parent company Digital Currency Group  —  New York-based Gemini is trying to recover funds after FTX failure plunged market into turmoil  —  Digital asset trading group Genesis …



Elections in India's Gujarat have become a WhatsApp spam war, as the main political parties push content across thousands of groups to influence voters (Samriddhi Sakunia/Rest of World)

Samriddhi Sakunia / Rest of World:
Elections in India's Gujarat have become a WhatsApp spam war, as the main political parties push content across thousands of groups to influence voters  —  10,000 volunteers, 50,000 WhatsApp groups, and the intense fight to “control people's feed” in Gujarat.  —  • AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA



Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in ...