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Does Twitter Have Any Employees Left Who Remember That The Company Is Under A Strict Consent Decree With The FTC? by Mike Masnick

Yesterday I tweeted out a question about whether or not there was anyone left at Twitter who remembered that the company was under a pretty strict FTC consent decree: Apparently the answer was yes, but they didn’t include Elon Musk. Late last night, a few hours after that tweet, the Chief Information Security Officer, the […]

The normies want to be heard.

The GOP starts to realize Trump is a LOSER

Mastodon's Eternal September begins

If he wants to save Twitter, not ruin it

Maybe we’ll look back and see that Elon Musk did us, the civilized citizens of the net, a favor by forcing us off our cozy if centralized, corporatized, and corrupted internet to find and build an…

You break it, you buy it.

Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more

One Twitter insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.

The Musk era of Twitter has so far been defined by unhinged tweets, fleeing advertisers, and botched layoffs.

A combination more powerful than one might think

Democrats are warning that “democracy is on the ballot.” This doesn’t mean democracy will simply end if Republican win power, but democracy will become more threatened by a party that does not respect liberal norms or Democratic election victories.

On the bus with the Democrat running for governor of Pennsylvania

What we learned about celebrity oligarchs

There’s plenty of speculation about what he’ll do, and whether — or how — he’ll wreck it. I have no unique insights above the stuff you’ve probably already…

What's happening to the entire media, in speeded-up time-lapse form.

Well, Elon’s first week running Twitter has gone worse than I expected. I said last week that I thought the platform would be pretty much unchanged in 1-3 months and then effectively dead within a year. Now it’s looking like it’ll be pretty different in 1-3 weeks and effectively dead within six months. (Nice job, Elon. You spent $44 billion to bring back the fail whale.)

And, about that yuge DHS "leak"