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Twitter's blue check: Vital verification or status symbol?

Elon Musk wants to change how Twitter doles out its checkmark badges for verified accounts

The Independent UK

Woman horrifies viewers after revealing she didn’t know she was pregnant until doctors saw head

‘While they were doing an ultrasound, my mother saw something familiar on the screen’ Kayla Simpson wrote in the caption of her TikTok video

The Independent UK

AOC accuses Elon Musk of sabotaging her Twitter account: ‘Doesn’t seem very free speechy to me’

‘Why should people pay $8 just for their app to get bricked when they say something you don’t like?’

The Independent UK

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Misinformation thrives on video site popular with far-right

Researchers say nearly 1 in 5 in five videos suggested by YouTube in response to a search for terms related to next week's elections contained misinformation

The Independent UK

Trevor Noah on attack ads: ‘We don’t accept this in any other job’

Late-night hosts discuss mean-spirited campaign attack ads, Maga voter intimidation and Elon Musk’s proposal to add a video paywall to Twitter

The Guardian - US

Senator Dick Durbin Doesn't Understand the First Amendment

On Tuesday, the senator erroneously claimed that "free speech does not include spreading misinformation."

Reason

How Elon Musk, Trump and Tucker Carlson helped far-right conspiracy theorists hijack the Paul Pelosi attack

Bogus reports and right-wing influencers spread false information that rapidly outpaced the truth. Court filings and interviews detail a gruesome attack. There was no ‘friend’ in his underwear. Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

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Middle East round-up: Netanyahu’s back, back again

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Al Jazeera

War of tweets erupts between Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Elon Musk: ‘Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8′

NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked Elon Musk’s plans to charge for a blue Twitter checkmark, sparking a war of tweets that continued through Wednesday night.

Tribune News Service

Is this dystopia? Not quite yet

We've been here before, and worse. We can still turn things around in America — but we must decide we want to

Salon

Musk's Twitter Takeover Incites Complaints From Celebs Who Voice To Quit Platform

A small but growing number of celebrities, actors, and artists preferred to dump Twitter Inc after Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's takeover, the Wall Street Journal

Benzinga

Tesla's Twitter overhang has only just begun

The phrase “Twitter overhang” was inescapable among Elon Musk’s biggest fans on the social media platform he started pursuing seven months ago.

Tribune News Service

EastEnders soap star warns Twitter's verification costs could put people in danger

He warned that lack of verification online could open the door to more predators and scammers

Liverpool Echo

Michael Hiltzik: Meta and Twitter show the drawbacks of giving self-satisfied billionaires too much power

Back in the prehistoric era — in 2012, when Facebook staged one of the most hyped initial public stock offerings of all time — I warned the company's newly minted shareholders that they had become wedded to Mark Zuckerberg.

Los Angeles Times

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Evening Standard

My Instagram tattoo studio hell can serve as a warning to us all

Cast your mind back to last Wednesday evening, 9pm to be exact. What were you doing? Perhaps you were curled up on the sofa reading a book, maybe finishing the last of your dinner. Cherishing the precious moments of leisure we have on the ever-accelerating hamster wheel of life.

The Guardian - UK

Olena Zelenska says she hopes Musk’s Ukraine peace tweet was ‘chance mistake’

Exclusive: First lady says ‘even smartest people could be influenced by Russian propaganda’

The Conversation

Mass migration from Twitter is likely to be an uphill battle – just ask ex-Tumblr users

Elon Musk announced that “the bird is freed” when his US$44 billion acquisition of Twitter officially closed on Oct. 27, 2022. Some users on the microblogging platform saw this as a reason to fly away.

Zenger

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Scrape The Place Clean’ — ‘Shark Tank’ Investors Weigh In On Elon Musk’s Twitter Purchase

The famed group of investors on “Shark Tank” know how to spot a bad deal

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Zenger

Musk’s Anouncement To Slap Price Tag On Twitter Verification Invited Mixed Responses

Being verified on Twitter comes with prestige. Now it also comes with a price tag.

The New Daily

‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk shows interest in bringing Vine back from the dead

Elon Musk has reportedly asked his Twitter developers to revive Vine, an old video-sharing app shut down by Twitter nearly six years ago.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Biden urges Americans to take a stand against political violence

President asks voters to reject election-denying candidates in midterms to ‘preserve democracy’. Plus, can Twitter survive Elon Musk?

Daily Mirror

James Corden reveals red raw hands after stressful joke-stealing and omelette scandals

James Corden put on a smile at the Hollywood premiere of his new TV show - but the strain of the past couple of weeks was clear

Evening Standard

Elon Musk mocks AOC’s $58 jumper in fiery clash over Twitter’s $8 blue tick

‘Just a reminder that money will never by your way out of insecurity, folks’, AOC posted

Axios

Elon Musk is managing Twitter using Donald Trump's playbook

Leading by tweet seizes public attention but also causes organizational chaos and makes it tough to impose change.

The Independent UK

Misinformation and the midterm elections: What to expect

The seeds of misinformation about next week's midterm elections were planted in 2020

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