Not the first time Fidelity marked down its investment and I suspect it won’t be the last:
Fidelity first reduced the value of its Twitter stake in November, to 44% of the purchase price. That was followed by further markdowns in December and February.
[Bloomberg.com]
One of the EU’s commissioners, Thierry Breton, tweeted last night that Twitter has left the governing body’s Code of Practice on Disinformation. The voluntary code is intended to set forth standards for curbing weaponized disinformation.
Twitter and several other companies agreed to the rules in June last year.
The team apparently has had as many as 100 people, but it’s been significantly cut down, Platformer reports. Perhaps that’s partially why the Twitter Space to launch Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign was such a disaster.
[www.platformer.news]
The last Twitter Space Elon Musk attempted to host didn’t go so well, but he’s trying again anyway. Instead of a politician announcing a run for president, however, he’s logging on to talk with Ford CEO Jim Farley about “Accelerating EV adoption.”
With competition for electric cars heating up — are we about to see a new partnership for Tesla? The event is scheduled to start at 5:30PM ET.
Vice used FOIA requests to uncover some key emails between SpaceX and the FAA.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Privacy ICAO Aircraft Address program (PIA) allows private jet owners to essentially create a dummy or “temporary” aircraft registration number that is known only to the jet’s owner and the U.S. government.
Emails obtained by Motherboard show that SpaceX enrolled Elon Musk’s private jet in this program sometime prior to August 2022, but failed to properly implement the temporary tail number, allowing the plane to continue being tracked under its real, permanent tail number.
Plus, they were sent at around the same time as Musk and Twitter were banning / unbanning @ElonJet and journalists who mentioned it. Meanwhile, the guy behind the account is just starting another tracker for Ron Desantis.
A bad cover version.
The video playback speed feature has returned to Twitter for me on the web and in the iOS app. It launched as a test in February 2022, but it eventually went away, so I’m happy to see that it’s back.
See if you have it with this video of a speedrunner zipping around in Tears of the Kingdom on a plank, though note that you’ll have to watch the video directly on Twitter to access the feature.
Which video platform will give me a 3x speed option? Anyone?
The lawsuit from the six employees has some startling allegations about how Elon Musk’s transition team deliberately planned to breach contracts and not pay bills, among other things. A Musk staffer apparently flat-out told one of the employees that “we just won’t pay rent.” (Twitter’s landlord in San Francisco has sued the company over, well, not paying rent.)
[San Francisco Chronicle]
