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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference with Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to call for legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019.
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Social media services have generally been free of charge for users, but now, with ad revenues slowing down, social media companies are looking for new revenue streams beyond targeted ads.

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Hello, reader. Hallam Bullock here, reporting from London, and today I'm thinking about privacy. 

Our very own Diamond Naga Siu made her thoughts on the Bevi water dispenser gathering employee data very clear in this newsletter earlier in the week. 

Tech Insider : Politics
Elon Musk wearing a tuxedo
Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted in response to a clip shared from the hearing.
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Haraldur Thorleifsson has had a long week. On Monday, the Icelander tweeted at Elon Musk asking if he still had a job at Twitter, since he had been locked out of his work laptop and hadn’t been able to get in touch with Twitter human resources. On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that no, Thorleifsson did not still have a job,…

Gizmodo : Politics

House Republicans this week rammed through an ill-constructed, self-aggrandizing “anti-censorship” bill supposedly aimed at preventing federal agents from pressuring tech companies to stifle conservatives. The bill, inspired in part by Republican outrage over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and…

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Elon Musk, wearing a black suit and tie, waves to photographers outside a courthouse
Elon Musk took control of Twitter in late October.
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While Twitter deals with daily chaos and mounting debt, its biggest competitors are thinking they can do tweet storms even better than the ol’ blue bird. On Friday, Meta confirmed that it was working on a new stand-alone app for sharing Twitter-like messages.