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How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement

The Verge

Convoy supporters are getting their news from a tangle of Facebook groups, Telegram channels, and random influencers, which is all then amplified and expanded by right-wing broadcasters like Carlson, The Daily Caller , or Canadian right-wing media network Rebel News.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

In a pair of tweets , Vera Jourova, the EU’s values and transparency VP, warned of “yet another negative sign” by Twitter — accusing the platform under Musk of “not making digital information space any safer and free from the Kremlin #disinformation & malicious influence”.

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