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J.K. Rowling says comments deemed anti-trans were 'profoundly' misunderstood

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, nearly three years after publishing a series of tweets that was widely considered transphobic, is stating in a new podcast that she "never set out to upset anyone."

Los Angeles Times

Right-wingers cry fraud over Musk's poll

Conservatives that embraced Musk's war on the left are baselessly blaming the poll results on "bots"

Salon

Musk's magical media-shifting machine

Elon Musk is building a new anti-left media ecosystem almost overnight.

Axios

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Meet Elon Musk's favorite new doctor

The right's new darling is a Stanford doctor who is mistrustful of mRNA vaccines and lockdowns

Salon

Sifting Through the Twitter Files: Live With Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller

Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live analysis of the internal Twitter documents recently published by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger.

Reason

Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

The Twitter CEO's selective release of internal communications largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.

WEKU

EXPLAINER: How Elon Musk is changing what you see on Twitter

What you’re seeing in your feed on Twitter is changing

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Elon Musk Lets Loose Another Batch Of Twitter Files That Point To Existence Of ‘Secret Blacklists’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has made public the second tranche of “Twitter Files” that point to the existence of secret blacklists.

Zenger

TechScape: I read Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ so you don’t have to

In this week’s newsletter: The leaks don’t reveal a hotbed of leftwing bias at the social media company – just a thin-skinned billionaire rehashing culture wars of years past

The Guardian - UK

Bari Weiss reveals business plan for buzzy new media startup

Weiss has more than doubled the number of paid subscribers to her newsletter since last August.

Axios

The #TwitterFiles Rorschach test

Everybody sees what they were predisposed to see.

Axios

Why is the FTC suing to stop Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal? Because it doesn’t trust the tech giant

Federal regulators are skeptical that the Xbox parent will make good on pledges to keep games available on PlayStation.

Fortune

Bari Weiss Twitter Files Reveal Systematic 'Blacklisting' of Disfavored Content

Twitter employees have indicated that shadow banning—at least by some definitions—is both real and common.

Reason

It's Far Past Time To Decriminalize Fentanyl Test Strips

Plus: Lawmakers "demanding action" against slurs on Twitter, FTC sues to stop Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard, and more...

Reason

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Fortune

Elon Musk's focus on Twitter leaves Tesla investors fuming

Musk can't stop finding new cans of worms to open at his new acquisition.

Dynamite News

Twitter Files: Musk Says Working On Software Update To Show If Account Has Been Shadow Banned Or Not

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has come up with a new update to the micro-blogging platform after the second instalment of the so-called "Twitter Files" revealed how the company build blacklists and actively limited the visibility of certain accounts

Al Jazeera

Twitter had ‘secret blacklists’ to limit users, journalist claims

Independent journalist Bari Weiss says platform restricted visibility of ‘disfavored tweets’.

Axios

Musk's second "Twitter Files" claims "secret blacklists"

Outside journalists posted more internal documents showing Twitter's content decisions under Musk's predecessors.

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Al Jazeera

Musk says Twitter lawyer fired amid Hunter Biden laptop dispute

Elon Musk accuses executive of possibly suppressing information about Twitter’s handling of Hunter Biden laptop story.

Axios

The alternative-media industrial complex

Elon Musk is giving a push to a new model of publishing built mostly on the idea that it's anti-mainstream media.

The Independent UK

Who is Sam Harris and why did his Trump comments cause such a stir?

This isn’t the first time Mr Harris made a bunch of people mad, and it won’t likely be the last

Reason

Rep. Peter Meijer's Trump-Backed Primary Challenger Got a $435,000 Gift From Democrats

If election denial is an existential threat to the country, why are Democrats boosting John Gibbs?

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Progressives have ruined San Francisco. Just ask this heiress

Say what you wish about the recall last week of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's liberal district attorney, it has been a gift for pundits searching for signs of a pushback against progressive criminal justice reforms.

Reason

Are Newsletters the Future of Free Speech?

Substack's Hamish McKenzie on censorship, discourse, and Joe Rogan.

Salon

No "free thinkers," just lazy whiners

Joe Rogan and Elon Musk fanboys aren't "populists" — just lazy, entitled men afraid of progress

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