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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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This climate activist says he was silenced on Twitter

The Verge

Activists were caught in a spam filter. “I Twitter says that at least two of the suspended accounts belonging to environmental activists were caught in a spam filter and have since been reinstated. Another Ugandan activist with Fridays for Future who fights deforestation, Leah Namugerwa, had her account frozen in September, too.

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Proton VPN review: Premium, proven privacy and a free tier with no data limits

Mashable Tech

Under Swiss law, such requests can't proceed without a court order.). IP addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers provided are saved temporarily in order to send you a verification code and for anti-spam purposes," reads the Proton policy. However, Proton VPN couldn't comply with the request because it didn't have any logs.

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