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Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety, confirmed her resignation to Reuters on Thursday. Irwin replaced Yoel Roth, who left during Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Irwin seemed to agree with Musk’s views, which have welcomed neo-Nazis and increased hate speech on Twitter. Roth disagreed. Irwin and Musk hadn’t commented …

After a year, Twitter appears to have unblocked Russian government accounts. The Elon Musk-owned platform now shows Putin and Russian Embassy accounts in search results. The Telegraph also noticed the Russian authorities’ timetables and recommendations. According to a former Twitter employee, a policy change may have caused this. Twitter has …

Twitter is giving Blue members 50% more advertisements in their timeline and a search boost. Elon Musk had long promised Twitter Blue subscribers fewer sponsored tweets. The firm has introduced functionality for the “following” and “for you” timelines. “As you scroll, you will see around twice as many organic or …

Twitter’s new API pricing mechanisms were introduced on Wednesday after the company dragged its feet for weeks. The free tier is designed primarily for automated content posting, whereas the basic tier costs $100 per month and the enterprise tier costs significantly more. The Advertising API is included at no extra …

Google’s security research division is raising the alarm about a number of holes it found in Samsung semiconductors used in many Android devices, wearable tech, and cars. They are worried that the holes will soon be found and used against Google. Tim Willis, the head of Google’s Project Zero, claimed …

More than 20 new nations in Europe are now able to use Twitter’s paid service, Twitter Blue. These countries are the Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus.They also include the Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, and …

Misinformation spreads quickly due to social media amplification. Famous people have tweeted misinformation. Community Notes, Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking program, now lets users remove such retweets. Twitter will notify users if Community Notes contributors add context to a tweet they liked, retweeted, or replied to. “This helps give people extra context …

Elon Musk once referred to himself as a “free speech absolutist,” but ever since making that overstated claim, he has been reversing course and introducing more and more restrictions on what he considers to be free speech. From blocking jokesters who mock him on Twitter to blocking recently verified accounts …

Community Notes are now accessible worldwide, according to a tweet from Twitter over the weekend. The social media giant uses a mechanism called Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, to crowdsource fact-checking. Users can use the tool to contextualize tweets, and it uses an open-source methodology to disprove false information. …

On November 23, Twitter declared that it would no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy and would not take any action against any tweets that did so. Due to the inherent health dangers, the site has previously taken a strong anti-misinformation stance. However, under new guidance from Elon Musk, Twitter …