“I don’t like this movie,” the journalist said, “and you’ve got five minutes to prove to me that it is worth watching.” The cast of Ghostbusters was on a press junket somewhere in Europe, and some guy with a German or Scandinavian or Russian accent or whatever had just had …
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In a new interview, Twitter creator and co-founder Jack Dorsey claimed that the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, attempted to force Twitter to shut its doors in the country. Dorsey, who quit as chief executive of the social media platform in 2021, discussed the situation on YouTube news show …
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Imagine a distant future in which humans compete for passenger seats on a spaceship headed away from this dying Earth to a more habitable planet. That’s more or less the current scene on Twitter — a slowly collapsing social network — as people scramble for access to Bluesky, a decentralized …
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On Thursday, the forensic financial research firm Hindenburg Research released a report accusing Jack Dorsey’s Block, formerly Square, of operating as a digital hub for fraud. The two-year investigation concluded that “Block has systematically taken advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping” and that the company has a …
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey took the blame for Twitter’s controversial content decisions that the platform made under his leadership, while warning of content control by governments and corporations. Dorsey started the statement in a Twitter thread but moved it to a blog post, explaining, “I don’t want to edit everything …
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A massive trove of Elon Musk’s texts made available to the public give a glimpse into Musk’s mindset during his bid to acquire Twitter, and the subsequent unraveling of the deal that has resulted in Twitter taking the Tesla billionaire to court in order to force his proposed $44 billion …
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Elon Musk cited the claims of Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, Aug. 2 as he attempts to back out of his deal to buy the social media company for $44 billion. Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, claimed in a …
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Jay-Z and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are teaming up to launch a financial literacy program, titled The Bitcoin Academy, for residents of the Marcy Houses project in Brooklyn, New York, where the rapper grew up. The program, announced Thursday, will offer classes online and in-person to Marcy residents with …
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