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The Asia Internet Coalition, an influential industry organization representing technology giants such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon, has voiced concerns over a recent amendment to India’s IT rules, saying the changes grant the local government expansive content removal authority without implementing adequate procedural safeguards. India recently updated its IT rules, barring social media platforms […]

US tech giants warn India’s fact-checking rule will ‘profoundly infringe’ on press freedom by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter announced today a new policy that it claims will offer more transparency around which hateful tweets on its platform have been subject to enforcement action. Typically, when tweets violate Twitter’s policies, one of the actions the company can take is to limit the reach of those tweets — or something it calls “visibility filtering.” […]

Twitter to label tweets that get downranked for violating its hate speech policy by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter is rolling out more “government-funded media” labels on the accounts of international news outlets. These include the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC Australia), Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand’s public broadcaster RNZ, Sweden’s SR Ekot and SVT, and Catalonia’s TV3.cat. “For more than 90 years the ABC has always been and remains an independent […]

Twitter adds more ‘government-funded’ labels to global news outlets by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]

This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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Blue checkmarks on Twitter and Instagram are used by public figures and media outlets to say, “you can trust I am who I say I am and you can trust me.” But now both Twitter and Meta have changed the rules around how to get verified, and in the process have stripped some of the […]

Twitter Blue vs Meta Verified and other TC news by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter has introduced a new feature that will let Blue subscribers post 10,000-character-long posts — as if the social network is trying to compete with a rival newsletter platform. Along with this, this Twitter has also added support for bold and italic text formatting. In February, the social network introduced 4,000-character-long tweets for Blue subscribers […]

Twitter introduces 10,000 character long tweets for Blue subscribers by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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PBS and a handful of other news organizations have joined NPR in stepping away from Twitter, the social media platform once synonymous with breaking news. A PBS spokesperson confirmed to Axios that PBS had “no plans to resume tweeting” after Twitter gave it a murky “government-funded media” label over the weekend. A few other news […]

More newsrooms bail on Twitter as Musk meddles with account labels by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter has partnered with the investment platform eToro to show real-time information about stocks and crypto prices. This expands upon the social network’s Cashtag feature, which provided info about a limited number of stocks and crypto coins through TradingView data. The social media company first introduced the feature in December, letting users search for a […]

Twitter partners with eToro to show real-time stock and crypto information by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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NPR will no longer update its 52 Twitter accounts, including the primary @NPR handle, which has nearly 9 million followers. These accounts include NPR’s topic-specific feeds like NPR Politics, as well as individual radio shows like Weekend Edition. Last week, Twitter placed a “state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account, representing the American news non-profit in […]

NPR leaves Twitter due to misleading ‘government-funded media’ label by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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Elon Musk gave a rare interview to an actual reporter late on Tuesday, speaking to BBC reporter James Clayton on Twitter Spaces. During the interview, Clayton pressed Musk on whether his purchase of Twitter was, in the end, something he went through with willingly, or whether it was something he did because the active court […]

Elon Musk admits he only bought Twitter because he thought he’d be forced to by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch
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