Top news of the week: 29.01.2023.
Elon Musk Caves to Pressure From India to Remove BBC Doc Critical of Modi
Officials from India’s ruling right-wing party said American tech companies like Twitter and YouTube complied with demands to remove the documentary.
Trump hasn’t changed. But Facebook is giving him a second chance.
The former president and promoter of the "big lie" is Facebook’s problem again.
Indian ban on BBC Modi film puts Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ to the test
Use of emergency laws sheds light on fragile and fractious place social media such as Twitter now occupy in country
Elon Musk censors BBC report critical of Indian Prime Minister Modi, blocks members of parliament from sharing links
And the biggest risk of a Joe Biden presidency (besides nuclear war) just ratcheted up
Laid Off Googlers Got More Severance Than Workers At Alphabet’s ‘Other Bets’ Like Waymo And Verily
Alphabet laid off more than 12,000 employees, giving Googlers a base of 16 weeks of severance. Other units got less.
A leaked internal message appears to show Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff to suspend a left-wing activist's account
The internal message involved the account of activist Chad Loder and said: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk," Bloomberg reported.
Successful startup founder tells Elon Musk he'd pay $100 to get old Twitter back
Nikita Bier, whose startups have been acquired by Discord and Facebook, isn't a fan of the product changes Elon Musk has made with Twitter.
“Ghosted.” Twitter’s Advertisers Pull Back Spending After Laid-Off Reps Disappear.
The narrative that post-layoff Twitter is doing fine isn’t totally right. The sales operation is struggling badly.