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Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)As the saga of the “Twitter Files” continues, the platform’s former CEO Jack Dorsey seems to be wondering why we can’t just hurry this up already and dump all of the company’s related dirt in one fell swoop. On Wednesday, following revelations about new potentially unsavory activity related to the Hunter-Biden-laptop-scandal, Dorsey asked his pal and successor, Elon Musk, to basically do a Wikileaks-style flushof Twitter’s internal documents. “If the goal is transparency to build trust,…

“We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed – yet that is precisely what the internet, and the big companies that provide internet-based services, provide” Theresa May Social media is being censored more than ever. There are keywords that, when used continuously, lock users out of their social media accounts automatically.Many believe that social media platforms should be responsible for taming the spread of fake news, hate speech, and violent-related messages on their platforms. In reality, doing…

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has started beta-testing his new social platform, Bluesky. This new app is intended to be a rival to Twitter and host those Twitter users who are planning to leave the platform amid Elon Musk’s takeover.The billionaire Elon Musk has finally completed the Twitter deal and is now officially the platform owner. He first fired all of Twitter’s top executives and planned to change the company’s content moderation policies drastically. That has created a sense of fear among some users, and even…

As Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over as Twitter CEO, the microblogging site's co-founder Jack Dorsey is reportedly testing another social network App to compete with the Blue Bird.According to People, a week before Musk finalised his acquisition deal, the 45-year-old former CEO Dorsey announced that he is looking for beta testers for his decentralised social App Bluesky."The next step is to start testing the protocol. Distributed protocol development is a tricky process. It requires coordination from many parties once a…

After months of dragging Twitter deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally took charge of the microblogging platform…

Binance founder and CEO Chinese-born Canadian Changpeng Zhao.Photo: Eric Piermont (Getty Images)Newly minted Twitter owner Elon Musk isn’t letting up on his migraine-inducing grievances about bots consuming his Twitter feed. Now, less than one day into his ownership, he’s reportedly decided to offload part of that pesky problem to one of the biggest names in crypto. Binance, the massive crypto exchange that reportedly invested $500 million towards Musk’s Twitter takeover, says it will work with the social media company to…

Jack Dorsey back in 2019 (before his “bitcoin lumberjack” look took over) tapped a small group of developers to start work on a decentralized protocol for social media platforms.Photo: David Becker (Getty Images)The team of crypto-nascent developers originally tapped by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey now have a blockchain-based social media platform in the works. Based on the company’s descriptions it’s certainly idealistic, as long as you can parse through all the blockchain jargon to find the kernel of actual ideas…

Artificial intelligence thinkers seem to emerge from two communities. One is what I call blue-sky visionaries who speculate about the future possibilities of the technology, invoking utopian fantasies to generate excitement. Blue-sky ideas are compelling but are often clouded over by unrealistic visions and the ethical challenges of what can and should be built. In contrast, what I call muddy-boots pragmatists are problem- and solution-focused. They want to reduce the harms that widely used AI-infused systems can create.…

Bluesky, Twitter’s open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on GitHub for developers to test, although Bluesky emphasizes that it’s incomplete. It’s one of the most substantive windows into Bluesky’s workings since the project was conceived in 2019 and formally incorporated in early 2022. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber writes that ADX will be the start of a semi-public development process. “We’re…

Bluesky, a company funded by Twitter to develop a new operating standard for social media, on Thursday will name its first three employees, more than two years after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey first announced the initiative, according to a blog post seen by Reuters.Bluesky is working to build an open protocol for social media with the aim of enabling different social platforms to operate together, which would represent a fundamental shift from today's social media landscape.The Internet is currently dominated by…