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  • ‘Parag Agrawal Arrested for Child Porn’ Fake News About Former Twitter CEO Is a Work of Satire Website ‘Vancouver Times’!

    ‘Parag Agrawal Arrested for Child Porn’ Fake News About Former Twitter CEO Is a Work of Satire Website ‘Vancouver Times’!

    Social Media was flooded with posts criticising Parag Agrawal, after a satirical news that Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has been arrested for possessing child pornographic contents after tipoff from Elon Musk went viral. The news further stated that the executive was arrested at his home in California by the FBI. However, the news was satirical but few social media users believed it to be true and started bashing Parag Agrawal by calling him a pedophile. A Twitter user clarified about the news and tweeted that “For everyone retweeting that Parag Agrawal was arrested for Child porn, The Vancouver Times is a satire site. Please stop.” It was a work of satire website Vancouver Times. Twitter Files Part 2: Secret Group of Vijaya Gadde, Parag Agrawal Made Decisions Jack Dorsey Didn’t Know, Says Elon Musk.

    Parag Agrawal Arrested for Child Porn

    A Twitter User Clears the Air

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  • Twitter Files Part 2: Secret Group of Vijaya Gadde, Parag Agrawal Made Decisions Jack Dorsey Didn’t Know, Says Elon Musk

    Twitter Files Part 2: Secret Group of Vijaya Gadde, Parag Agrawal Made Decisions Jack Dorsey Didn’t Know, Says Elon Musk

    New Delhi, December 9: Elon Musk on Friday released the “Twitter Files” season 2, revealing that the micro-blogging platform had a secret group that included former legal and public policy head Vijaya Gadde, then CTO Parag Agrawal and Yoel Roth, former global head of trust and safety, that made controversial decisions including “shadow banning” high-profile users without informing then CEO Jack Dorsey.

    This time, the “Twitter Files Two” were released by Bari Weiss, Founder and Editor of The Free Press, on the micro-blogging platform and endorsed by Musk. “Controversial decisions were often made without getting Jack’s approval and he was unaware of systemic bias. The inmates were running the asylum. Jack has a pure heart imo (in my opinion),” tweeted Musk. Twitter Will Soon Start Freeing the Name Space of 1.5 Billion Accounts.

    Weiss said that the “investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavoured tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics — all in secret, without informing users”.

    “This secret group included the Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others,” she mentioned in a tweet thread. Twitter always denied that it did such things.

    In 2018, Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour, Head of Product, said: “We do not shadow ban. And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.” Weiss said that what many people call “shadow banning”, Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF”.

    “VF refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the atrending’ page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches,” she claimed.

    The secret group is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower accounts, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything”.

    Weiss further tweeted that Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers”. “Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected. All without users’ knowledge,” she added.

    The “Twitter Files Two” came after Dorsey challenged Musk to stop creating sensation around the ‘Twitter Files’ and make everything public instead “without filter”. Musk last week released the first episode of ‘The Twitter Files’ into the controversial decision to suppress Hunter Biden’s laptop story on the platform. Elon Musk Says Twitter Working on Software Update That Will Tell Users If They Have Been Shadowbanned.

    Dorsey challenged Musk on Twitter that “if the goal is transparency to build trust, why not just release everything without a filter and let people judge for themselves? Including all discussions around current and future actions? Make everything public now”.

    Musk replied on Thursday: “Most important data was hidden (from you too) and some may have been deleted, but everything we find will be released.” The episode 1 of the ‘Twitter Files’ mainly implicated Gadde in suppressing US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s laptop story on the platform.

    Without revealing how he obtained them, independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi shared the ‘Twitter Files’ on the platform, with an endorsement by Musk.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Dec 09, 2022 02:14 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Elon Musk vs Parag Agrawal: Tesla CEO Dares Twitter CEO for Open Debate on Fake Accounts

    San Francisco, Aug 7: Amid the ongoing legal dispute over the $44 billion takeover deal to buy Twitter, tech mogul Elon Musk has challenged the platform’s CEO Parag Agrawal to have a public debate on fake accounts and spam.

    While replying to a user who summarised his accusations, which included Twitter stonewalling Musk and giving him “outdated data” about the microblogging platform, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote a “good summary of the problem”.  Elon Musk vs Parag Agarwal: Tesla CEO, Twitter CEO Spar on Twitter Over Fake User Accounts

    “If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they are confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms. However, if it turns out that their Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings are materially false, then it should not,” Musk said in a series of tweets.

    “I hereby challenge Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage. Let him prove to the public that Twitter has lesser than per cent fake or spam daily users!”

    The tech billionaire also posted a poll that asked the microblogging platform’s users.

    “Less than 5 per cent of Twitter daily users are fake/spam,” and during the first five hours of the polls, 66 per cent of the users chose “Lmaooo No”.

    Meanwhile, Musk’s die-hard fan Pranay Pathole called out SEC and wrote: “I wonder what’s SEC doing here? Are they even investigating these dubious claims that are made by Twitter?”

    “Good question, why aren’t they?” Musk replied.

    Twitter has filed a detailed response to Musk’s countersuit against the micro-blogging platform, saying his claims are “factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant”.

    According to Musk, he was hoodwinked by Twitter into signing a $44 billion merger agreement.

    “That story is as implausible and contrary to fact as it sounds. And it is just that — a story, imagined in an effort to escape a merger agreement that Musk no longer found attractive once the stock market — and along with it, his massive personal wealth — declined in value,” Twitter had said in its legal response filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery in the US.

    Musk’s lawyers filed 90 pages of counterclaims in the court, and Twitter responded to them paragraph by paragraph.

    The Tesla CEO, in his countersuit, said that his action arose out of Twitter’s misrepresentations regarding the condition of the company and the “key metrics” the platform uses to evaluate the number of its users.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Aug 07, 2022 09:22 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Elon Musk Sent Warning Text to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Asked Him to Stop Creating Trouble: Reports

    Washington [US], July 17: The dispute between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Twitter is taking many twists and turns.

    As per new reports, Musk recently, but before pulling out of the deal, sent a text to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on June 28, informing him that the company’s lawyers were trying to “cause trouble” after they sought information on the financial details that Musk was planning to complete the acquisition of Twitter.

    Also Read | Twitter Sues Elon Musk As He Walks Out of USD 44 Billion Acquisition Deal

    “Your lawyers are using these conversations to cause trouble. That needs to stop,” Musk’s text reportedly read. Musk sent the particular message after Twitter asked Musk how he would finance the Twitter deal.

    A few days ago, Twitter sued Musk after he decided to back out of the USD 44 billion takeover deal.

    Also Read |Elon Musk Seeks to Block Twitter’s Request for Expedited Trial

    As per The Verge, the lawsuit was filed in Delaware’s Court of Chancery on Tuesday, accusing Musk of hypocrisy.”Twitter brings this action to enjoin Musk from further breaches to compel Musk to fulfil his legal obligations and to compel consummation of the merger upon satisfaction of the few outstanding conditions,” Twitter wrote in the lawsuit. The lawsuit marks the beginning of what could be a protracted legal battle as Twitter seeks to hold Musk to his deal to pay USD 54.20 per share for the company. Twitter, which is being repped by M&A powerhouse law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, alleged that Musk looked for an escape from the deal, which required a “material adverse effect” or breach of contract.”

    Musk had to try to conjure one of those,” the lawsuit stated. Musk announced the termination of a USD 44 billion Twitter purchase deal in a letter sent by Musk’s team to Twitter earlier this month.

    Musk decided to suspend the deal due to multiple breaches of the purchase agreement. In April, Musk reached an acquisition agreement with Twitter at USD 54.20 per share in a transaction valued at approximately USD 44 billion. However, Musk put the deal on hold in May to allow his team to review the veracity of Twitter’s claim that less than 5 per cent of accounts on the platform are bots or spam.

    Back in June, Musk had openly accused the microblogging website of breaching the merger agreement and threatened to walk away and call off the acquisition of the social media company for not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts. Musk alleged that Twitter is “actively resisting and thwarting his information rights” as outlined by the deal, CNN reported, citing the letter he sent to Twitter’s head of legal, policy and trust, Vijaya Gadde.

    Musk demanded that Twitter turn over information about its testing methodologies to support its claims that bots and fake accounts constitute less than 5 per cent of the platform’s active user base, a figure the company has consistently stated for years in boilerplate public disclosures. (ANI)

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  • Elon Musk Hints Paying Less for Twitter As He Fights With CEO Parag Agrawal Over Bots

    San Francisco, May 17: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has hinted to pay less for Twitter takeover, as he sparred with CEO Parag Agrawal over the actual number of bots or spammy accounts on the platform.

    At a conference in Miami, Musk said that Twitter could have at least four times more fake accounts than what has been revealed in its filing “You can’t pay the same price for something that is much worse than they claimed,” he said during the event late on Monday.

    “Currently what I’m being told is that there’s just no way to know the number of bots. It’s like, as unknowable as the human soul,” he added. Musk, who has put the $44 billion takeover deal on hold, believes bots make at least 20 per cent of Twitter users, and a lower price may not be “out of the question”.

    Twitter shares were down 8 per cent to close at $37.39 on Monday. Musk attacked Agrawal after the Twitter CEO on Monday went into finer details on how the micro-blogging platform is fighting spam and fake accounts. Elon Musk vs Parag Agarwal: Tesla CEO, Twitter CEO Spar on Twitter Over Fake User Accounts.

    The Tesla CEO even showed an emoji depicting a “pile of poo” to Agrawal on his Twitter thread. “Our actual internal estimates for the last four quarters were all well under 5 per cent — based on the methodology outlined above. The error margins on our estimates give us confidence in our public statements each quarter,” said Agrawal.

    “Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share). Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day,” said Agrawal.

    Musk then replied on his Twitter thread: “So how do advertisers know what they’re getting for their money? This is fundamental to the financial health of Twitter.”

    At the summit, Musk said: “They claim that they’ve got this complex methodology that only they can understand… It can’t be some deep mystery that is, like, more complex than the human soul or something like that.”

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on May 17, 2022 12:34 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Says, ‘We Need To Be Prepared for All Scenarios and Always Do What’s Right for Twitter’

    A day after Twitter fired two employees from its top brass, CEO Parag Agrawal on Friday took to the microblogging site and said that he has been focused on the company. In one of the tweets, Parag explained why the employees were fired. He said, “Changes impacting people are always hard. And some have been asking why a “lame-duck” CEO would make these changes if we’re getting acquired anyway.” He also said that the company needs to be prepared for all scenarios ahead of its deal with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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  • Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Fires Two Employees From Top Brass, Freezes Hiring

    In a shocking turn of events, microblogging site Twitter has fired two of its top brass including one who is on paternity leave. According to reports, the company has also frozen hiring, and revoked all job offers.

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  • Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Opens Up on Why He Took This Job; Lauds Staff for Working Despite ‘Noise’

    Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said that he joined the micro-blogging site to make it better, and strengthen the service. Meanwhile, he also lauded the staff for continued work despite the noise. Taking to Twitter on April 28, Agrawal said, “I took this job to change Twitter for the better, course correct where we need to, and strengthen the service. Proud of our people who continue to do the work with focus and urgency despite the noise.”

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  • Twitter’s Future Is Uncertain, Says CEO Parag Agrawal; To Reportedly Get $42 Million if Sacked

    San Francisco/New Delhi: Parag Agrawal, the Indian-origin CEO of Twitter, will approximately get $42 million if Tesla CEO Elon Musk decides not to retain him at the helm. According to research firm Equilar, he will get an estimated $42 million if terminated within 12 months of being appointed as the CEO of the company. Donald Trump Won’t Return to Twitter, Will Use His Own Truth Social.

    Agrawal took over from Jack Dorsey in November 2021. After Musk bought Twitter for nearly $44 billion, Agrawal reportedly told employees at a town hall meeting that the future of the micro-blogging platform is now “uncertain”.

    He said that no layoffs were planned at this time, but admitted that he does not have all the answers as “this is a period of uncertainty” and he does not know which direction “the platform will go”.

    Twitter will become a privately-held company after the takeover deal is closed, and the company’s board will be dissolved, according to Bret Taylor, independent board chair at Twitter.

    Musk has already said that he doesn’t have faith in the management of Twitter. The decision to sell the platform to the Tesla CEO also signals that the board is somehow not convinced in Agrawal’s capabilities, as the company is not making enough profits.

    “Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world. Deeply proud of our teams and inspired by the work that has never been more important,” Agrawal said in a statement late on Monday.

    Agrawal was previously Twitter’s chief technology officer (CTO) and his total compensation for 2021 was $30.4 million, according to reports.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Apr 26, 2022 11:41 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).