Top news of the week: 19.02.2023.
Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
Unit led by Tal Hanan that boasts vast army of bots exposed by undercover reporters and leaked emails
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Elon Musk's mood and intensity at Twitter are 'worse' than during Tesla's existential crisis 5 years ago, staff says
Elon Musk has called an earlier stretch at Tesla the "most difficult" of his career. His employees say his time at Twitter is proving worse.
Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication
Better change your 2FA, or Twitter will turn it off
A Twitter Flaw Allows You To Like An Edited Tweet Multiple Times
Twitter users can like different versions of an edited tweet, making it seem like it has more likes than it actually does. Experts say the bug could be used to spread false information.
What we learned from Haley’s launch
Her day-one metrics reveal the changing state of the political internet and set a bar for the rest of the field
Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s Alzheimer’s research, colleagues allege
His paper was called “the miracle result.” But it never turned into an Alzheimer’s treatment. Now, four former Genentech senior scientists and executives allege that an internal review in ...