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Economy Jul 08

Elon Musk says he’s terminating $44 billion Twitter buyout deal

Elon Musk announced he will walk away from his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter, leaving the deal on the verge of collapse. The Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition.

Economy Jun 28

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With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance.

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Facebook’s system approved dehumanizing hate speech

Facebook has failed another test of its ability to detect blatant, violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit group Global Witness.

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Sheryl Sandberg, longtime COO at Facebook, steps down

Sandberg has led Facebook — now Meta's — advertising business and was responsible for nurturing it from its infancy into an over $100 billion-a-year powerhouse.

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Turning Twitter into a ‘free speech’ haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has successfully arranged to buy Twitter for about $44 billion, intending to turn it into a haven for free speech. But the social platform has been down this road before, and it didn't end well last…

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New Twitter CEO steps from behind the scenes to high profile

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley's highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.

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Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data

More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network’s system. That’s about 640 million people.

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Facebook rebrands as Meta to emphasize ‘metaverse’ virtual reality vision

Experts point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers, a document trove that has revealed the ways Facebook ignored internal reports of the harms its social network magnified across the…

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‘Facebook Papers’ reveal company is hesitant to act on serious issues

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