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Jay Peters

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    Twitter might add even more badges.

    The new Elon Musk company is working on a “Blue for business” project where businesses can buy special badges for their employees, according to Platformer. In one mockup, Verizon CEO has three badges by his name. Here’s hoping Twitter’s badges go full Tumblr.

    Elon goes hardcore

    [www.platformer.news]

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    Meta is dropping the “Political Views” field from Facebook profiles.

    Your weird uncle will still be able to post their political views to Facebook, but they won’t be listed in a dedicated field on their profile. And it’s not just political views: Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s also removing the Interested In, Religious Views, and Address fields on from Facebook profiles December 1st.

    Facebook is removing several information fields from profiles, including religious and political views

    [TechCrunch]

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