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Read the new Twitter CEO’s first email to employeesRead the new Twitter CEO’s first email to employees
Makena Kelly
Makena Kelly
Jack Dorsey sounds really sad in this new interview.

Jack joined Breaking Points on Monday for a nearly 30-minute interview, covering everything from his support for 2024 presidential candidate and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Elon’s Twitter takeover. Jack tip-toed around Musk’s decisions to undo much of his work at Twitter:

“It’s a dynamic where he had to be very hasty and to be impatient to move as quickly as possible on features even if they weren’t fully thought out. It all looked fairly reckless. But I do have confidence that they’ll figure it out.”

Also, apparently AR, VR, and whatever new tech is driving us towards a “Wall-E” future “with everyone in the floating chairs, drinking their food out of straws.”

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Elon Musk still hasn’t paid Twitter’s Google Cloud bill.

And as Zoë Schiffer writes, that could unplug tools used to stop spam, harassment, and CSAM. The Information reported in March that bills for AWS and Google Cloud were stacking up as Twitter tried to renegotiate. A May Bloomberg report said at least ten lawsuits had been filed against Twitter for nonpayment since Musk took over.

Now, Schiffer says that unless they pay up or work something out, its access could be cut off on June 30th when their contract ends.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Elon Musk is talking about splitting ad revenue with creators on Twitter again.

Just a few months after he said it would start.

Getting paid by Twitter requires three things: You have to pay Twitter for Twitter Blue, the advertiser has to pay Twitter to show the ad, and the person viewing the ad also has to pay for Twitter Blue.

How much can you make? Musk and his new CEO Linda Yaccarino didn’t say. Anyway, here’s a look at the Twitter competitor that’s coming soon from Instagram.

This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks likeThis is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Fox News tells Tucker Carlson his Twitter show is a breach of contract.

Fired Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has posted a ten-minute first episode (going from an hour to half the length of the longest TikTok doesn’t really feel like an episode, but whatever) of his show on Twitter. Now that it’s up, Axios reports Fox sent a letter notifying Carlson he’s in breach of his contract —signed in 2019 and amended in 2021 — that guaranteed the network his exclusive services for the next few years.

So what’s next, more negotiations or a lawsuit?

Scoop: Fox News says Tucker Carlson breached his contract

[Axios]

How social networks gave up on 2020 election liesHow social networks gave up on 2020 election lies
Twitter’s window to edit tweets is now one hour, but you still have to pay for itTwitter’s window to edit tweets is now one hour, but you still have to pay for it
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Twitter left up dozens of known images of child sexual abuse material, a new study says.

In the span of over two months, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory found more than 40 CSAM images that had been flagged in the past out of a pool of 100,000 tweets, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Outgoing Twitter CEO Elon Musk has touted child safety as his number one priority since taking over the platform last year. However, numerous reports have since suggested Twitter isn’t doing all that great of a job at preventing the spread of child exploitation imagery.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Twitter’s ad sales stink of Musk.

Elon Musk to the BBC in April:

I think almost all advertisers have come back or said they are going to come back.

The New York Times based on a Twitter slide deck it obtained:

Twitter’s US advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier.

May doesn’t look much better.

Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue

[The New York Times]

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Linda Yaccarino is officially Twitter’s CEO, starting tomorrow.

And joining her is NBCUniversal executive vice president Joe Benarroch (via Wall Street Journal). From the Journal:

“Tomorrow, I start a different professional adventure at Twitter, taking on a role focusing on business operations,” Benarroch wrote in the memo. He noted that he has worked with Yaccarino to champion and grow the company’s business priorities and help build partnerships, among other things. “I am looking forward to bringing my experience to Twitter, and to working with the entire team to build Twitter 2.0 together.”

Yaccarino’s hiring has helped rid the company of its “high risk” label, and bringing in NBCUniversal’s top ad sales person is another attempt to connect with advertisers.

The Verge’s Alex Heath has confirmed both will start tomorrow.

Incoming Twitter CEO Hires Executive from NBCUniversal for Business Operations Role

[WSJ]

Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin has resignedTwitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin has resigned
Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
Can Twitter actually follow EU law? We might know later this month.

EU specialists are touring San Francisco performing “stress tests” of enforcement for the upcoming Digital Services Act, and Twitter is on the roster:

A team of roughly five to 10 digital specialists from the EU plan to put Twitter, and possibly other companies, through their content-policing paces during a visit to San Francisco in late June, Thierry Breton, the bloc’s commissioner for the internal market, said in an interview.

The test is voluntary, he said, and Twitter has agreed to be subjected to it. It won’t carry any fines or other enforcement consequences. It will offer companies a dry run for how the EU’s Digital Services Act, or DSA, will be enforced.

Elon Musk pulled Twitter out of a voluntary anti-disinformation program, but he’s promised to follow the EU’s rules... if Twitter’s skeleton crew can follow through.

WSJ News Exclusive | Twitter to Face Stress Test This Month, Top EU Tech Regulator Says

[WSJ]

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