Two-factor authentication can keep your social media, connected home, shopping, and other services a lot safer than if you just depend on simple passwords. We’ve got the directions for adding 2FA to many of the more popular apps, and the best part? You don’t have to do it via SMS.
The Verge’s friends over at Platformer report that Steve Davis, CEO of The Boring Company, is becoming a key player in Elon Musk’s management of Twitter. Musk says Twitter should be ready for a new CEO by the end of 2023 after users voted for him to step down — perhaps Davis will take that spot.
[www.platformer.news]
The weekend tweet by the once-again world’s richest man reacted to the reaction to Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ YouTube rant about Black people — that video was deemed unacceptably racist enough that newspapers and his syndication partner cut ties with the cartoonist.
In response, Musk says that these days, The Media is actually “racist against whites & Asians.”
There’s another call for a Twitter ad boycott, while The Information reports Musk is seeking people to build a ChatGPT AI alternative that isn’t so “woke.”
The company’s Slack had been shut down, and now it’s returning, though with all of the old channels archived, according to Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer. The company told employees the old Slack had a whopping 88,188 channels!
It’s at least the fourth round of cuts since Musk said on November 21st that layoffs were over.
Affected employees started receiving notices by email on Saturday. I’m hearing that this round is hitting a bunch of departments, including ads and infrastructure engineering, and Twitter likely has fewer than 2,000 employees now. It had about 7,500 when Musk took over.
[The Verge]
In a bid to combat the spread of misinformation on the platform, Twitter will now notify users if a tweet they interacted with has been updated with additional context via a Community Notes contribution.
Twitter’s community-driven moderation program isn’t led by professional fact-checkers, but the feature can help to debunk blatantly false or misleading information... probably, or not.
