Twitter Gives Verified Users Option to Hide Their Checkmark of Shame

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Twitter—which Elon Musk has desperately tried to convince users is now called “X”—wants users to display their $8 a month blue checkmark prominently on their page.

Toymaker Mattel says it will pay someone nearly $18,000 to play and promote its new Uno game

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Uno cards.

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Facebook and Instagram Begin Their Canadian News Blackout

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Well, they actually did it.

Warner Bros. US Responds to Japanese Barbenheimer Criticism, Deletes Tweets

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After a social media storm swirled in Japan after the U.S. social media accounts for the Barbie movie acknowledged the “Barbenheimer” mashup memes, Warner Bros.

Complaints about Elon Musk's giant light-up 'X' sign accused the company of creating a 'massive nighttime nuisance' and showing 'zero respect' for its neighbors

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The X sign lit up at night on the company's San Francisco building
Musk is in the process of rebranding Twitter to "X."

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Days after Mark Zuckerberg said Threads had lost more than half its users, the head of Instagram is moving back to the US after just a year in London

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The Threads app and Adam Mosseri.

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It looks like Elon Musk got a pass to have Twitter renamed to the single character 'X' on the App Store — even though it appears to go against Apple's rules

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The social media site formerly known as "Twitter" is now officially "X" on the Apple App Store. The change is accompanied by the app's new tagline, "Blaze your glory!"

Screenshot from the App store.

San Francisco authorities say they still can't access Twitter HQ's roof to inspect Elon Musk's 'unsafe' X sign

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The X sign lit up at night on the company's San Francisco building
The X sign lights up at night.

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Ex-Twitter safety exec slams Elon Musk's move to reinstate account that shared obscured image of child being tortured: 'This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia and then he turns around and does this.'

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Former Twitter exec Yoel Roth (left) slammed Twitter owner Elon Musk (right) after he reinstated an account that had shared an obscured image of child torture.

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Facebook's Influence on Political Views May Be Greatly Exaggerated, Researchers Find

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Social media algorithms have been a point of contention for lawmakers and regulators for several years over concerns that users were being brainwashed by the flood of misinformation promoted on their feeds.

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