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Elon Musk says that Twitter Blue will relaunch in December with gold, grey, and blue checkmarks

Elon Musk has announced that Twitter will ‘tentatively’ relaunch its ‘Blue Tick’ enabling Twitter Blue service on Friday, December 2, 2022, after indefinitely suspending it.

The updated service will include distinct checkmarks for various entities.

“We apologise for the delay; we hope to launch Verified on Friday next week,” Elon said in a tweet. “Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue check for individuals (celebrity or not), and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before the check activates,” he added.

Musk described the transition as “painful but necessary.”

Musk was chastised earlier this month for allowing companies, individuals, and other entities to be impersonated on Twitter by bogus accounts. Elon Musk has set an $8 subscription fee for Twitter Blue, and according to a recent tweet, the price will remain $8 when the service relaunches in December.

Elon had previously stated that Twitter Blue would be delayed “until there is high confidence in stopping impersonation.” Many bogus verified accounts used Twitter Blue to become verified and impersonate well-known companies and individuals in order to commit fraud.

One user, impersonating the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, tweeted that the company will provide free insulin to its customers, causing the company’s stock to fall 5% in morning trading on Friday.

Several bogus verified Twitter Blue accounts disrupted Twitter. One user, impersonating the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, tweeted that the company will provide free insulin to its customers, causing the company’s stock to fall 5% in morning trading on Friday.

A fake Nintendo account later posted an image of Mario giving the middle finger.

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As Twitter struggles to deal with hate speech, Musk says he will grant ‘amnesty’ to banned accounts

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, has taken another step toward dismantling the social media platform’s anti-hate speech mechanisms.

Musk announced on Thursday that he would grant “amnesty” to all suspended Twitter accounts that have not violated the law or “engaged in egregious spam.” Musk made the decision after a poll on the platform received 3.1 million responses. Approximately 72% of respondents voted in favour of restoring those accounts, while approximately 28% voted against it.

“The populace has spoken. The amnesty period begins next week. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk tweeted, quoting a Latin phrase that translates as “the voice of the people is the voice of God.””

Since purchasing Twitter for $44 billion last month, Musk has continued to loosen the platform’s grip on enforcement around posts containing hate speech. Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s account last week after Twitter permanently suspended it following the Capitol insurgency, citing a “risk of further incitement of violence” at the time.

According to NBC News, European Union regulators published a report on Thursday that found Twitter removed fewer hate-speech posts than the previous year.

According to a sample analysed in the EU report, Twitter removed 45.5% of hate speech posts it was notified about, down from 49.8% in 2021 — and those numbers are worse than any other social media platform tested, including TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.

Not only has Trump’s account been revived. Other accounts that have been reinstated since Musk’s ownership include Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, controversial influencer Andrew Tate, who has a history of spreading misogynistic and violent comments about women, and Jordan Peterson, a psychologist who had his account was suspended after tweets targeting trans people.

Prior to assuming control of the social media company, Musk chastised it for “failing to adhere to free speech principles.” He previously stated his intention to form a “content moderation council.” However, given the recent employee exodus, Musk may find it difficult to carry out any vision he has for Twitter. Thousands of employees have left the company in recent weeks after Musk issued an ultimatum to his employees, telling them to either work long hours at high intensity or quit.

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Elon Musk reduces employee benefits at Twitter and eliminates several perks in order to increase profits

Elon Musk has decided to change several employee benefits and eliminate several perks that Twitter employees had grown accustomed to in order to turn the company profitable. It should be noted that Twitter has never been profitable since its inception.

These perks include not only several benefits that are common in tech companies around the world but also some key benefits that were implemented in the midst of the pandemic to help Twitter employees complete their duties.

Some of the most significant perks cut include training and development, finishing school, daycare facilities for staff children, and quarterly team activities. Other benefits include all allowances and activities related to employee wellness and productivity, as well as home internet access.

While getting rid of facilities like home internet makes sense given that Twitter is putting a stop to the practice of working from home, industry insiders say getting rid of training and development, especially for managers, is a little strange.

“Allowances will be re-evaluated over time and may be reinstated if the company’s financial situation improves,” read an internal memo distributed to the remaining employees.

Musk previously claimed that Twitter’s 7400-7500 employees were fed for $4 million per day. However, a number of company employees, including the team in charge of the meals served to employees at Twitter offices, disputed that claim.

Since assuming control of Twitter, Musk has fired roughly half of the 7500 people directly employed by the social media platform. In addition, he fired approximately 4000 contractual content moderators who worked for Twitter.

**“Allowances will be re-evaluated over time and may be reinstated if the company’s financial situation improves,” read an internal memo distributed to the remaining employees.**

In addition, another 1200-1500 people resigned from Twitter after Musk issued an ultimatum, warning employees that the culture at Twitter would have to undergo a massive overhaul and that employees who wanted to be a part of the new direction that Twitter would take, also known as Twitter 2.0, should prepare themselves for longer working hours and a more fast-paced, hardcore environment.

Elon Musk has since announced that he has finished firing Twitter employees and is now looking for engineers and salespeople for the ad sales team. He has also encouraged employees to refer people who are qualified for the position.

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Elon Musk: ‘I have too much work on my plate’

Tesla, billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he was working “at the absolute greatest amount… from sunrise till night, seven days a week.” When asked about his recent acquisition of Twitter and his leadership of automaker

After purchasing the social networking platform, the millionaire claims to be working from morning to night.

“I certainly have too much work on my plate,” Musk said via video link to a business conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

Musk, the CEO of both firms, arrived lighted by candles, wearing a batik shirt provided by the organisers, and stated that he was speaking from a location that had recently lost electricity.

The question of whether Tesla (TSLA) will suffer as a result of Musk’s Twitter obsession has become a focal point for investors and experts.

Indonesia has been attempting to reach an agreement with Tesla over battery investment and maybe with Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace business for the development of a rocket launch site.

Musk made no commitments to either, but said Indonesia has a significant role to play in the electric vehicle supply chain and that having many launch ports around the world would make sense “long term” for SpaceX.

On Monday, he became embroiled in an online debate about free lunches for Twitter employees.

According to the New York Times, the company cafeteria’s free meals are being discontinued, and Mr Musk tweeted that “almost no one came to the office” and that the “estimated cost per lunch served in the past 12 months is more than $400.”

Mr Musk responded by claiming that Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco headquarters.

He tweeted, “There are more people making breakfast than enjoying breakfast.” “They don’t bother serving dinner because no one is in the building.”

Meanwhile, Mr Musk stated on Saturday that Twitter Blue will most likely “reappear at the end of next week.”

Twitter paused its recently launched $8 blue check membership service on Friday, citing an increase in bogus accounts.

Twitter employees have been pushed to work 84-hour weeks and managers have slept at the office over the weekend in order to meet Elon Musk’s strict deadlines.

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Elon Musk failed to provide previously promised severance payouts to laid-off Twitter employees

Elon Musk: Twitter employees who were laid off are suing the company, claiming they were promised a variety of severance benefits.

According to the lawsuit, they were guaranteed that these perks would continue when Elon Musk purchased Twitter.

However, recently laid-off employees claim Twitter failed to pay them their promised severance money.

Employees who were laid off by Twitter are suing the firm, which is now owned by Elon Musk, alleging breach of previously agreed severance benefits.

Five employees who filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitter on November 1 now claim they were promised at least two months’ severance pay, bonus plan compensation, cash value of vested Twitter equity, and healthcare coverage, but that these promises were broken when Musk laid off about 3,700 employees on November 4.

The new charges were presented in court files to the San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, which Insider also saw.

According to the Tuesday update, Twitter’s management previously said at many all-hands meetings, in a recent FAQ, and in a merger agreement that if staff were laid off after Musk acquired the firm, they would receive at least the equivalent of the originally promised amount.

According to the lawsuit, Twitter employees “reasonably relied” on this guarantee in the weeks preceding up to Musk’s purchase and elected not to look for work elsewhere.

This claim appears to contrast a November 4 tweet from Musk, which said that all exited employees were offered three months’ severance.

According to the revised lawsuit, Twitter later informed employees affected by the November mass layoffs that they would only receive one month’s base pay after their departure.

This claims appears to contradict Musk’s November 4 tweet, which stated that all departing employees were given three months’ severance pay.

Musk has worked every day to find new methods to screw over Twitter employees, according to his counsel.

According to Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who brought the lawsuit, Musk is adding an extra two months of severance compensation because certain employees were advised on November 4 that they would be laid off in two months.

According to their lawsuit, these employees, which included three of the plaintiffs, were locked out of their corporate accounts on November 3, but were informed they would be paid until January 4, 2023.

“This is not severance compensation,” Liss-Riordan argued in the case, accusing Musk of just using this term of payment to comply with federal and state labour rules. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as the WARN Act, is a federal law that requires businesses with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days’ notice of mass layoffs or other work disruptions.

“It appears Elon Musk has laboured every day since assuming control of Twitter barely two weeks ago to find new and imaginative methods to screw over the company’s workers,” Liss-Riordan said in a statement to Insider. “We recently filed an emergency request to protect the employees Twitter is laying off from signing away their rights to receive what they are due by the corporation.”

Twitter’s previous top four executives — Parag Agrawal, Ned Segal, Vijaya Gadde, and Sarah Personette — stood to profit by being dismissed by Musk for a total of $88 million. Musk disputed on October 31 that he fired the senior executives “for cause” in order to avoid paying them large severance packages.

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Elon Musk recommends Republicans to vote in the US midterm elections

Elon Musk recommended on Monday that voters support Republican candidates for US Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, suggested on Monday that voters choose Republican candidates for the United States Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

*Elon Musk recommends Republicans to vote in the US midterm elections*

“To independent-minded voters: Shared authority restrains the worst excesses of both parties; therefore, provided that the presidency is Democratic, I urge voting for a Republican Congress,” Musk wrote on Twitter.

Since Musk’s purchase of Twitter, human rights organisations have attacked the Tesla CEO’s content moderation attitude over his absolutist free speech stance, which they believe would increase the volume of disinformation and hate speech on the platform.

According to nonpartisan election analysts and surveys, Republicans have a very strong probability of winning a House majority, with control of the Senate likely to be fought more closely.

Musk has previously stated that he will vote for Republicans, but he also supports moderates on both sides of the political line.

“Hardcore Democrats and Republicans never vote for the other side, so independent voters actually decide who’s in charge!” Musk wrote on Twitter.

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Twitter employees have been pushed to work 84-hour weeks and managers have slept at the office over the weekend in order to meet Elon Musk’s strict deadlines.

Elon Musk admits to a ‘massive reduction’ in revenue, prompting Twitter layoffs

Twitter temporarily closed its headquarters and restricted employees’ access to internal systems on Friday, a week after billionaire Elon Musk took over the social media network.

Musk announced the layoffs shortly after tweeting that the firm had seen “a big loss in revenue, due to activist groups pressing advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content filtering and we done everything we could to placate the activists.” Totally messed up! They are attempting to undermine free speech in America.”

According to internal sources, the “entire” curation team on Twitter had been fired, while system lockouts made confirmation difficult. Twitter’s curation staff is critical in covering “civic integrity” events like elections, breaking news, and sports, ensuring users receive validated content presented as moments, trends, and subjects items. Internally, it is seen as a critical filter against deceptive posts.

Flags from partner news organisations concerning probable misrepresentation on the platform, according to the staffer, went unanswered. “The platform is going to grow more poisonous with less healthy information to challenge the disinformation or misinformation narratives,” stated an anonymous employee.

Some employees awakened on Friday to find their laptops locked and their access to business Gmail and Slack terminated. “Well, this isn’t looking promising,” Chris Younie, who works for Twitter in entertainment partnerships in the UK, tweeted. I’m unable to access my emails. Mac will not turn on. But I’m grateful that this is happening at 3 a.m. I really appreciate your consideration on the time front, gentlemen…”

The policy on misleading content on Twitter involves labelling disputed posts and highlighting contextualising information next to such messages. The employee stated that they were notified through email that their position was being reviewed.

The layoffs were announced in an email to employees on Thursday. “We will go through the arduous process of decreasing our global workforce in order to put Twitter on a healthy path,” the email added. “We know that this will have an impact on a lot of individuals who have made significant contributions to Twitter, but this move is unfortunately required to ensure the company’s continued success.”

The abrupt manner of the layoffs may have also violated California employment law, and Musk is already facing legal action.

Employers with at least 100 employees are required to declare layoffs involving 500 or more employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (Warn) legislation, regardless of whether the company is publicly listed or privately held.

According to Barry White, a representative for California’s workforce development department, the government has not received any such notices from Twitter as of Thursday.

Former Twitter senior community manager Simon Balmain told the Guardian he was “shocked, but not surprised” by the company’s rapid employment layoffs. “I had finished work but still had my laptop open and we all received an email from the employer announcing a reduction in head count,” said Balmain, who had been with the company for a year. My laptop flashed and was deleted an hour later, and I lost access to my programmes.”

Twitter employees have been pushed to work 84-hour weeks and managers have slept at the office over the weekend in order to meet Elon Musk’s strict deadlines.

Elon Musk is considering making verification a Twitter Blue perk.

According to Platformer Casey Newton and The Verge, with Elon Musk in control, Twitter plans to raise the price of its Blue subscription plan from $5 to $20 per month and make it mandatory for verified users. If the plan is launched, verified users (celebrities, politicians, journalists, etc.) must sign up for the service within 90 days or lose the blue check mark. Employees working on the project have reportedly been told they will be fired if the improvements are not implemented by November 7th.

Twitter introduced Blue in the United States late last year for $3 a month but raised the price to $5 in July. It provides subscribers with benefits such as top articles, unique icons, and, most recently, the ability to modify tweets. The firm has not disclosed membership counts, revenue, or other statistics regarding Twitter Blue, but according to Investopedia, the great majority of its revenue (89 percent) comes from advertising.

Musk indicated the change in a tweet yesterday, saying that “the entire verification procedure is being rebuilt right now.” As Newton pointed out, Twitter’s @verified now follows approximately 428,000 accounts that have the blue check, representing a small percentage of the site’s 206 million daily active users.

Many of them have tweeted about the change, and many would not pay $20 to maintain their verified status. At the same time, users have expressed concern that the new approach may exacerbate Twitter’s bot and spam concerns, which Musk appears to despise. “The objective of Twitter verification is… to be able to verify their assertions are coming from them,” cosmologist and writer Katie Mack tweeted.” It’s meant to combat misinformation, not to be a status symbol.”

Musk has been very busy in his short days as “chief twit.” According to The New York Times, he has ordered company-wide layoffs. On Saturday, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO reportedly instructed managers to begin compiling lists of staff to lay off.

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She said of the man who attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband this week. “He was tweeting antisemitic tropes, he was exhibiting memes that depicted violence, and all of this election-denying, pro-Trump, MAGA-crowd stuff,” That’s what we’re up against here… I just don’t think that any individuals should be getting money off of spreading a lot of misinformation.”

She noted that whereas TV networks are required to filter advertising for incorrect information before they have been shown and published, companies such as Twitter are not subject to the same rules.

“We need to modify the requirements for these companies,” she explained. “They’re profiting from us.” They are profiting from the violence.”

Meanwhile, NBA superstar LeBron James said yesterday that the increase in N-word usage on Twitter since Musk’s takeover was “scary AF,” and he hoped Musk “and his staff takes this very seriously.”

This came to know after the Network Contagion Research Institute, a social media research organisation, reported that use of the N-word on Twitter increased 500% in the 12 hours after Musk took control.

“Freedom of expression.” “Liberal tears,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted on Friday. Jordan is a close ally of former President Donald Trump, whom the previous Twitter administration barred from the platform—and whom Musk may invite back.

According to Dataminr, which also analyses social media, antisemitic memes increased, as did the term “plandemic”—shorthand for a conspiracy theory in which elites use the pandemic to obtain power and profit from vaccinations.

Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz told Fox News on Friday, “I think Elon Musk buying Twitter is one of the most momentous moves in modern times for free speech.”

“I am extremely delighted that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be ruled by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs who actually detest our country,” Trump tweeted on his alternative social site Truth Social.

Podcaster Joe Rogan, for one, praised Musk, a self-described “free-speech absolutist,” on Saturday for seeking to restore a “reasonable exchange of ideas” on the platform.

“I think we have a serious problem with Twitter discourse,” he continued. “Some would like to quiet those who hold opposing views, and then you get all this great feedback from everyone who agrees with you.”

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