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Lame spam of the day: Fake BBC news stories

Robert Weiner

Like most lame spam, this one lacks any formatting or graphics. Subject: BBC-Email: Cyprus races to rework savings tax after closing banks till Thursday. Text: Rich Webb saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** Cyprus races to rework savings tax after closing banks till Thursday **.

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

TechCrunch

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Brands can reduce adjacency to gore, excessive profanity and obscenity, targeted hate speech, sexual content, drugs and spam. In other words, Twitter has a Verified user spam problem.

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