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  • Twitter Files: Elon Musk Reveales Top Executives Interfered With US Presidential Election Before Banning Donald Trump

    Twitter Files: Elon Musk Reveales Top Executives Interfered With US Presidential Election Before Banning Donald Trump

    San Francisco, December 10: Elon Musk on Saturday revealed the third season of ‘Twitter Files,’ which claimed that top Twitter executives suppressed and censored former US President Donald Trump in the days before the 2020 election, finally deplatforming him on January 8, 2021 — two days after the storming of the Capitol Hill that left five dead.

    Independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi shared the ‘Twitter Files Part 3’, saying there were erosion of standards within the company in months before January 6, “decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies”. Twitter Files Part 3: Elon Musk Reveals What Led To Removal of Donald Trump From Microblogging Site After January 6 US Capitol Riot.

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    Musk replied to him, saying “election interference by social media companies obviously undermines the public’s faith in democracy and is wrong”. “Unequivocally true. The evidence is clear and voluminous,” he added. According to Taibbi, Twitter executives removed Trump in part over what one executive called the “context surrounding”: actions by Trump and supporters “over the course of the election and frankly last 4+ years”.

    “The bulk of the internal debate leading to Trump’s ban took place in those three January days (January 6-8). However, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots,” he mentioned in his Twitter thread. Twitter Files: ‘Just Release Everything and Let People Judge’, Says Jack Dorsey; Elon Musk Hints at Episode 2 Coming Soon.

    Taibbi said that as the election approached, “senior executives — perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed — increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of ‘vios’ as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway”. The reports, said the Twitter Files, are based on searches for docs linked to prominent executives, whose names are already public.

    “They include Roth, former trust and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and recently plank-walked Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker,” claimed Taibbi. The latest Twitter Files claimed that Twitter executives “were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content”.

    As soon as “they finished banning Trump”, Twitter executives started processing new power. “They prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses — perhaps even Joe Biden. The anew administration, says one exec, ill not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary,” he said in a Twitter thread. Musk has reinstated Trump on Twitter. However, he has not posted any tweets yet.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Dec 10, 2022 12:16 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Jack Dorsey Says He Is Against Permanently Banning Accounts on Twitter

    San Francisco, April 30: Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Saturday said that he is against permanently banning accounts on the platform unless they are involved in illegal activity.

    Dorsey, who left Twitter in November 2021 to focus on his financial payments form Block (earlier Square), did not name any person but his tweet indicated former US President Donald Trump who was banned from the platform last year in the wake of the Capitol Hill violence. Elon Musk Buys Twitter: Funny Memes And Jokes Flood Twitter After SpaceX Reaches Deal on Buying The Micro-Blogging Site.

    “As I’ve said before, I don’t believe any permanent ban (with the exception of illegal activity) is right, or should be possible. This is why we need a protocol that’s resilient to the layers above,” Dorsey said.

    Twitter had also temporarily banned The New York Post after it published an article related to US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Twitter’s legal head Vijaya Gadde has recently been under attack from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is set to take over the micro-blogging site for $44 billion, for the same action.

    Dorsey further said that “some things can be fixed immediately, and others require rethinking and reimplementing the entire system”. “It is important to me that we get critical feedback in all of its forms, but also important that we get the space and time to address it. All of that should be done publicly,” he added.

    “I have tried taking a break from Twitter recently, but I must say: the company has always tried to do its best given the information it had. Every decision we made was ultimately my responsibility. In the cases we were wrong or went too far, we admitted it and worked to correct,” he explained.

    Earlier this week, Dorsey said that “Elon is the singular solution I trust, I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness”. Musk has also said that Twitter must remain politically neutral if it wants to keep enjoying public trust.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Apr 30, 2022 11:12 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Cryptocurrency Bill 2021: Be Careful With Banning All Digital Currencies in India, Say Experts

    New Delhi, November 24: With the Indian government seeking to ban all private cryptocurrencies in the upcoming Crypto bill 2021, experts and leading industry players on Wednesday said that provisions relating to “banning” private cryptocurrencies would have to be looked at very carefully. The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021 seeks to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India in the Winter Session of Parliament starting November 29.

    It, however, allows for certain exceptions to promote the underlying technology of cryptocurrency and its usage. Former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg told IANS that cryptocurrencies don’t function and provide services as currencies only. Cryptocurrency Prices Crash As India Plans To Bring Bill To Ban Private Digital Currencies in Winter Session.

    “When you ‘ban’ crypto currencies what exactly do you ban? Similarly, what are the permissible exemptions? Do you permit crypto currencies to make in platform payments the largest exemption issue? What is the manner you permit purchase of exempted cryptocurrencies for exempted use by sovereign currencies?” he asked.

    The biggest matter which will need to be seen in the proposed bill is how are crypto platform going to be permitted to produce goods, services and assets using the versatile technology of blockchain and cryptography when its use as a currency-asset, elaborated Garg who headed the inter-ministerial committee (IMC) that drafted the cryptocurrency bill.

    According to Shivam Thakral, CEO, BuyUcoin, the crypto bill should be flexible enough for young Blockchain projects to flourish. “We also request the government to give immediate clarity on the taxation and filing of crypto assets,” he said.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier said that all democratic countries need to work together on cryptocurrency and ensure that it does not end up in the wrong hands.

    Giving an example of the virtual currency, he had said: “Take cryptocurrency or Bitcoin for example. It is important that all nations work together on this and ensure it does not end up in the wrong hands, which can spoil our youth.”

    Several high-profile meetings have been held to discuss the regulation of cryptocurrencies in recent days. The Parliamentary Standing Committee had also called for the regulation on cryptocurrencies and its ecosystem.

    Another objective of the Crypto bill is “to create a facilitative framework for the creation of the official digital currency to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India”. Garg said that the move to create a legal framework for issuance of digital rupee is most welcome.

    “I hope the bill does not limit RBI’s choice for digital rupee technology. A dematerialised rupee is a much better option than rupee created on Blockchain crypto technology platform,” he told IANS.

    New Delhi-based cyber law expert Virag Gupta said that the delay in bringing a law has given an opportunity to certain exchanges to create a parallel empire of cryptocurrency.

    “Non-regulation of cryptocurrency is creating a big risk to national security and individual investors in India. The bill should give legal protection to the Blockchain technology and the official digital currency of the country,” he told IANS.

    Besides making a law on crypto, the government should also make necessary provisions in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the RBI Act, 1934 and the Payment and settlement Systems Act, 2007 to “ensure proper safeguard and least judicial intervention in crypto matters”, Gupta added.

    Garg said that the crypto bill should ensure it does not kill new innovations around Blockchain, and create an ecosystem that actually promotes the technology. According to Sathvik Vishwanath, Founder and CEO, Unocoin, the crypto industry needs to wait and watch till the bill is tabled in the Parliament, as it is “immature right now to try to decode what exactly is coming”.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Nov 24, 2021 01:36 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Nigerian Govt Officially Joins Indian Social Media App ‘Koo’ After Banning Twitter

    Nigerian Govt Officially Joins Indian Social Media App ‘Koo’ After Banning Twitter

    New Delhi, June 10: After banning micro-blogging site Twitter indefinitely, the Nigerian government has officially joined the Indian social media app Koo, the co-founder of Koo said on Thursday. “The official handle of the government of Nigeria is now on Koo!” Aprameya Radhakrishna, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Koo, wrote on its platform while announcing the Nigerian government’s entry on the platform.

    “A very warm welcome to the official handle of the Government of Nigeria on @kooindia! Spreading wings beyond India now,” Radhakrishna wrote. On Wednesday, the Nigerian government said that Twitter is seeking dialogue in a bid to resolve the issues leading to the suspension of its activities in the West African country. Twitter Indefinitely Suspended in Nigeria Days After the Microblogging Site Removed President Muhammadu Buhari’s Tweet.

    Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed told reporters that he has received a message from the micro-blogging platform earlier in the day, seeking a dialogue with the Nigerian government. “They (Twitter) are now ready to hold senior-level discussions with us,” Mohammed said.

    Aside from suspending Twitter’s activities, Nigeria’s broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission, has ordered all local outlets to suspend their use of the social media platform. The Nigerian government on June 4 said it was indefinitely suspending Twitter’s operations in the country.

    The decision was taken two days after the social media network removed a post from President Buhari where made a reference to the country’s 30-month civil war in 1967-1970, warning “those who wanted the government to fail” to desist from fomenting trouble. Twitter said it had deleted the tweet because it violated the site’s rules against abusive behaviour.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jun 10, 2021 11:41 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).