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Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly all previously banned Twitter accounts — to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts. After posting a Twitter poll asking, “Should Twitter offer a

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Guest Essay I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Nov. 18, 2022 Credit... Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock By Mr. Roth is a former head of trust and safety a

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SAN FRANCISCO — New owner Elon Musk struggled Friday to harness the chaos he’s unleashed at Twitter, summoning the remaining engineers to the San Francisco headquarters and issuing new edicts on conte

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If you’re terminally online—and let’s be honest, if you’re reading this you are—you’ll know all about Twitter’s new management. For a whole year Twitter and Musk’s “will they / won’t they” dance both

Privacy is a right. This is a fact in many states , and it’s one of our fervent beliefs at Consumer Reports. But that doesn’t mean privacy is easy. Anyone who’s tried to make their digital life more p

We are digital hoarders. Some of us make plans for the custody of our accounts after death, but our online legacy is mostly trash. It’s decades’ worth of political rants and throwaway jokes on social

On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people began to see small signs that something was wrong with everyone’s favorite hellsi

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Layoffs are happening across the board in tech, media and other industries. Microsoft became the latest to announce layoffs after several other tech companies including Meta , Twitter , Lyft, Stripe a

How Security Leaders Draw The Line Published in The Gray Area · 5 min read · Nov 11, 2022 -- Recently there have been reports of security leaders abruptly leaving public organizations. Departures like

I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the shenanigans. As for my take on things, I will just say that Elon miscalculated a number of things in his handli

Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probab

If the Federal Reserve’s chair, Jerome H. Powell, and his colleagues look at company earnings reports, these themes might catch their eye. Workers unloading packages for delivery in New York last week

US job openings unexpectedly rebounded in September amid low unemployment, likely fueling further wage gains and adding pressure on the Federal Reserve to extend its aggressive campaign to curb inflat

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The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said. Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Layoffs had been expected and feared by Twitter employe

Illustration by Alex Castro You fucked up real good , kiddo. Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without m

The Federal Trade Commission plans to take the rare step of bringing individual sanctions against the CEO of alcohol delivery company Drizly for data privacy abuses, following allegations that the com

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Update, Oct. 3, 2022: Jack Thomas, journalist who poignantly wrote of his terminal diagnosis, dies at 83 AS A TEENAGER, I often wondered how my life would change if I knew that I would die soon. Morbi

Recently, after a week in which 2,789 Americans died of COVID-19, President Joe Biden proclaimed that “the pandemic is over.” Anthony Fauci described the controversy around the proclamation as a matte

I consider myself a reasonable and rational person. With a combination of good context and supporting evidence, I can generally assess situations correctly, and with confidence. But that has never bee

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Now though, economists say that the Fed is targeting something that could be much more painful for average Americans: a “growth recession.” In a speech at an annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on

6 min read· Aug 19, 2022 -- What do Medscape, Forbes, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and The New Yorker all have in common? They’re all sources of medical research that Twitter is censoring. Meds