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Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers
At the end of August, Sean Murphy was trying to book a flight between Nairobi, Kenya, and Entebbe, Uganda, with…
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The Reason for Meta’s Massive Layoffs? Ghosts in the Machine
Remember Libra, Meta’s ambitious plan to enter the cryptocurrency market? Or Lasso, Meta’s ambitious attempt to outdo TikTok? Alongside projects…
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This Billion-Dollar Crypto Collective Is Tearing Itself Apart
Something on which everyone can agree, whether fans of Christensen or not, is that the existing governance system is in…
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What the Hell Happened to FTX?
CZ has denied that he deliberately created a liquidity crisis at FTX—”I spend my energy building, not fighting,” he tweeted…
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The Great Crypto-Cop Brain Drain
In the course of a decade as a special agent with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Tigran Gambaryan has…
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Twitter Users Have Caused a Mastodon Meltdown
Rochko says he was too busy this week working on Mastodon to comment about the overloaded servers, and how the…
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A Race to Bridge the Analog Divide in US Politics
“While I see and understand the power of social media and how you can communicate messages and engage in some…
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Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone…
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China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
By the mid-2010s, Chinese people in big cities had generally switched from using cash to using Alipay and WeChat Pay.…
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After Twitter Staff Cuts, Survivors Face ‘Radio Silence’
“Saturday was the cleanup,” he says. Much of the day was spent working on removing departed colleagues’ access and trying…
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