Cuentas como la del Papa Francisco, Justin Trudeau, Beyoncé, Harry Styles, Rosalía, The New York Times, entre muchas otras, han decidido no pagar la suscripción a Twitter hasta este momento.
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Foto: Twitter (Pop Crave)
La red social Twitter retiró este jueves las marcas de verificación azul a las cuentas que no están abonadas a Twitter Blue, una suscripción que cuesta 8 dólares al mes, rompiendo así de manera definitiva la política empresarial anterior a Elon Musk, cuando Twitter daba esta verificación de forma gratuita a personas públicas.
“Eliminaremos las marcas de verificación heredadas”, anunció ayer en un tuit la cuenta Twitter Verified.
Los usuarios de Twitter Blue pueden editar sus tuits, publicar contenido de hasta 10,000 caracteres y conseguir que el algoritmo de la plataforma impulse sus tuits.
Cuentas como la del Papa Francisco, Justin Trudeau, Beyoncé, Harry Styles, Rosalía, The New York Times, entre muchas otras, han decidido no pagar la suscripción a Twitter hasta este momento.
Foto: Twitter (Twitter Verified)
Solo el 0.2 % de los usuarios de la red pagan por Twitter Blue: en marzo, Twitter Blue tuvo alrededor de 116,000 suscripciones confirmadas en la web, un 138% más que el mes anterior, según Similarweb.
Esta cantidad de abonos no produce ingresos suficientes como para compensar el dinero que la empresa perdió cuando diversas compañías dejaron de insertar publicidad en Twitter con la llegada del director ejecutivo de Tesla y XSpace.
Las constantes polémicas y cambios bruscos de Musk durante su primer año en red han hecho que los anunciantes hayan huido en masa de la red social fundada en 2006, lo que provocó que los ingresos por publicidad cayeran recientemente hasta en un 75%, según The Washington Post.
Muchos usuarios y medios de comunicación han dicho que no planean pagar la tarifa de 8 dólares por mes por empleado y 1,000 dólares por mes para las marcas de verificación de sus organizaciones, esta última de color amarillo.
Foto: Twitter (Elon Musk)
Como es el caso de The New York Times o de la actriz Halle Berry, quien anunció ayer que se unirá a los “no verificados”.
La fecha que se ha elegido para este cambio hizo pensar en un principio que tal vez era una broma, ya que el 20 de abril, escrito 4/20, en inglés, es para muchos “el día de la marihuana”, y esa broma ya la ha usado Musk en otras ocasiones.
En 2018 Musk tuiteó: “Estoy considerando sacar a Tesla de la bolsa a 420 dólares. Financiación asegurada” y luego dijo que era una broma.
Parece ser que Elon Musk ha convertido al perro de Dogecoin en el nuevo ícono de su red social.
Este lunes 3 de abril, varios usuarios de Twitter empezaron a reportar que el logo de la popular red social ha sufrido un notable cambio, pues el reconocido logotipo con el ave azul fue sustituido por la imagen del perrito de Dogecoin.
Pese a que el logo en la cuenta oficial de Twitter en la red social no ha sido alterado, la imagen del pájaro azul que aparecía en la pantalla de carga en Twitter también fue reemplazado por el conocido canino.
Twitter reemplazó al ave azul de su logo por el perrito de Dogecoin. – Foto: Captura de pantalla / Semana
Por el momento, Elon Musk, actual propietario de la red social, no ha emitido un pronunciamiento ante el drástico cambio que se realizó en logotipo en la plataforma digital. En consecuencia, una gran cantidad de usuarios de Twitter manifestaron estar muy confundidos ante la modificación que hubo e incluso algunos llegaron a creer que su cuenta había sido hackeada.
Sin embargo, algunos usuarios en Twitter especulan que dicha modificación sería producto de una broma atrasada de ‘April’s Fools’, puesto que en Estados Unidos el primero de abril es un día muy importante para los bromistas.
El Perro Dogecoin representa una criptomoneda que está basada en un popular meme que tiene el mismo nombre y que es protagonizado por un canino de raza Shiba Inu con una divertida expresión de expectativa o de estar esperando una ayuda.
Ese criptoactivo fue creado en 2013 como una broma, pero la moneda digital rápidamente ganó popularidad y valor gracias al apoyo de influencers, celebridades y usuarios de plataformas digitales. De hecho, en 2021 el propio Elon Musk usó su cuenta de Twitter para darle un impulso al Dogecoin al afirmar que era una criptomoneda potencialmente prometedora.
El tweet de Musk causó que el Dogecoin tuviera un incremento del 34 por ciento en su valoración. “Trabajar con los desarrolladores de Doge para mejorar la eficiencia de las transacciones del sistema. Potencialmente prometedor”, fue parte del mensaje completo que compartió en ese entonces el magnate en Twitter.
Vale la pena destacar que el Perro Doge Dogecoin es una criptomoneda cuyo símbolo es ‘Ð’ y su abreviatura es DOGE. Además, se trata de un criptoactivo cuyo principal uso es para comprar productos y servicios en línea, brindar propinas en redes sociales u otras plataformas sociales y hacer donaciones a causas benéficas.
El Dogecoin es una criptomoneda que surgió como una broma. – Foto: Ilustración generada por IA Bing Image Creator
Debido al uso que tiene el Dogecoin en diferentes plataformas digitales, algunos usuarios de Twitter han especulado que el cambio de logo en la red social representaría una táctica de Elon Musk para anunciarles a los usuarios de su red social que ha llegado la hora de pagar por el servicio de Twitter Blue. Esto teniendo en cuenta que el propio Musk ha advertido de varias formas que la experiencia en la plataforma digital será poco satisfactoria para quienes se queden con el servicio gratuito.
¿Cuánto cuesta tener Twitter Blue en Colombia?
Según un nuevo anunció que está apareciendo en la aplicación de Twitter para usuarios iOS y Android, que notifica generar una adquirir el servicio de Twitter Blue, bajo dos opciones de suscripción:
Suscripción mensual con una tarifa de 52.900 pesos colombianos
Suscripción anual con una tarifa de 554.900 pesos colombianos
Twitter Blue ya está disponible en Colombia – Foto: Captura de pantalla / Semana
De acuerdo con el anuncio que está apareciendo en la app de Twitter, las personas que deseen acceder al servicio pago de la red social tendrían derecho a las siguientes ventajas:
Cuenta verificada
Mejor posición en las respuestas y las búsquedas
La mitad de los anuncios en tu cronología
Eventualmente se liberará la opción de publicar videos más largos y de 1080p
Editar Tweets, hasta 5 veces en un plazo de 30 minutos.
Tweets más largos, posibilidad de generar respuestas y citas de hasta 4000 caracteres de longitud
Carpetas de elementos guardados
Acceso anticipado a las ciertas funciones nuevas con Twitter Blue Labs
Imágenes de perfil NFT, al ofrecer una opción que permite usar como imagen de perfil un NFT de propiedad del usuario.
This Tuesday twitter expressed its interest in Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquiring the social network for $44 billion, as they had previously agreed.
“The company’s intention is to close the transaction for $54.20 a stock,” Twitter wrote in reaction to a proposal from Musk that was sent hours earlier to the company and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
It stated that the billionaire “intends to proceed with the closing of the transaction contemplated by the April 25th, 2022 merger agreement, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the agreement”.
Twitter and Musk had agreed to acquire the company for $52.20 per share, but the billionaire later reversed the transaction, arguing that he had found a material breach of several provisions of the agreement, including the number of fake accounts posted by the company.
In recent weeks, Musk had also reproached Twitter for the compensation without his consent of Peiter Zatko – former chief security officer. Zatko had denounced that the social network hid from regulators relevant information about its cyber defense deficiencies and the number of fake accounts.
This offer comes two weeks after the start of the trial in Delaware, following the lawsuit filed by Twitter, which sought to force Elon Musk to proceed with the purchase. At this instance, which was scheduled for October 17th, Musk hoped that the judge would exempt him from formalizing the acquisition to which he had committed.
Nevertheless, Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia University, explained that he was not surprised by this change in the CEO’s position since the trial that awaited him “was not going to be pleasant.” “On the legal side, his case was not very strong. It looked like a typical buyer’s remorse scenario,” he added.
If Musk lost the case, he would have been faced not only with finalizing the purchase but also with paying interest that would have driven up the price, the professor explained.
If Musk lost the case, he would not only have been forced to finalize the purchase but also face interest payments that would have increased the price, explained Eric Talley (REUTERS).
In his letter sent to the SEC, Musk made reference to this instance and conditioned the closing of the deal to the conclusion of the judicial process along with all ongoing proceedings related to this issue.
After the news of the purchase, the shares of the social network soared: they rose 22.24% this Tuesday to reach a value of 52.00 dollars. At the moment and as a result of this, the stock market activity is temporarily suspended. Tesla shares closed at $249.44, up 2.90% by the end of the trading day on Wall Street.
Likewise, the New York Stock Exchange also saw a strong rise with indexes such as the Nasdaq gaining 3.34 % on the day.
Following news of the purchase, the social network’s shares soared (AFP).
In July of this year, Twitter’s shares had low peaks that took the share price to $32.7.
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New York/London (CNN Business) Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter (TWTR) and take it private, saying he believes the company needs to be «transformed.»According to an SEC filing, Musk has offered to acquire all the shares in Twitter he does not own for $54.20 per share, valuing the company at $43.4 billion. That represents a 38% premium over the closing price on April 1, the last trading day before Musk disclosed that he had become Twitter’s biggest shareholder, and an 18% premium over its closing price Wednesday.Musk said the cash offer was his «best and final offer,» according to the SEC filing, adding that if it’s not accepted he would have to reconsider his position as a shareholder.
The Tesla CEO sent an offer letter to the company Wednesday night, according to the filing.
«I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,» he said in a letter he sent to Twitter. «However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.»The letter was addressed to Bret Taylor, the chair of the Twitter board, not CEO Parag Agrawal, who assumed that title last fall. It concludes: «Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.»
Twitter issued a statement Thursday confirming that it had received the offer. The company said its board would carefully review the proposal «to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the company and all Twitter stockholders.»
Shares of Twitter (TWTR) shot up as much as 13% in premarket trading on the offer Thursday, but soon retreated to a gain of about 7%, suggesting that investors had doubts the bid will be accepted.But it will be difficult for Twitter to reject Musk’s bid at the price he is offering, said Dan Ives, tech analyst with Wedbush Securities.»Musk is putting the Twitter board’s backs against the wall,» Ives said. «The premium is at a level that will be hard to see other bids occurring.»But to get a return on a bid this high, Twitter would need to do more to bring in subscriber revenue and cut costs, Ives said. Musk’s commitment to use the company to promote greater free speech doesn’t do much, if anything, to increase its profitability.»Musk making this about free speech is the exact opposite of what every other corporate raider would do about monetizing the company’s value,» Ives said. «It’s historic and bizarre at the same time.»Last week, Musk disclosed he had been buying shares of Twitter since late January, and that he had accumulated a 9.1% stake since that time, spending $2.6 billion on the shares he purchased. After that disclosure, he initially accepted an offer of a seat on the board of the company, an agreement that included a cap on his investment in the company to a 14.9% stake.On Sunday Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal disclosed Musk had decided not to join the board, which removed that limit.Musk had been unusually silent on his plans for Twitter in the days since then.
Musk did not disclose how he intends to fund his purchase. He said he has hired Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley (MS) as his financial advisor for the transaction.Although Musk is the richest person on Earth, most of his $274 billion net worth is tied up in his holdings in publicly-traded Tesla and privately-held SpaceX, and he has been reluctant to sell shares of Tesla beyond what he needed to in order to pay taxes. Shares of Tesla (TSLA) slipped 2% in premarket trading Thursday, perhaps on fears that Musk would sell shares in order to raise cash.It’s very possible that Musk won’t need to sell Tesla shares and instead will be able to use them as collateral to borrow the money he needs to buy Twitter, Ives said. Musk’s Tesla shares are worth about $177 billion, even with the modest decline in premarket trading Thursday.»Banks will be lining up to be part of the consortium of lenders to the world’s richest person,» said Ives.Musk is not a fan of having his companies be publicly traded. While other private space exploration companies such as Virgin Galactic (SPCE) have gone public, SpaceX had remained privately held, despite speculation it is ripe for a public offering. And in August of 2018, he announced — on Twitter — that he was thinking of taking Tesla private, saying he thought that was its best path forward.Musk’s tweet about taking Tesla private, in which he said he had «funding secured» for the offer when he did not, got him in trouble with the SEC. He eventually had to give up the position as chairman of Tesla, and agree to have his tweets with material information about Tesla reviewed by other executives at the company.Taking a company private, or keeping it private, reduces the oversight the watchdog agency has on its operations.
The price he suggested for Tesla at that time, $420 a share, was seen highlighting April 20, the unofficial holiday of marijuana enthusiasts. The $54.20 per share offer for Twitter also includes «4.20.»— Brian Fung and Brian Stelter contributed to this article.
Ahora, evidentemente, quiere ir por más: ofrece 43.000 millones de dólares para comprar toda la plataforma, ya que ese 9,2 por ciento que compró hace un mes (que lo transformaba ya en el mayor accionista individual) no le alcanza. El número representa un 38% más que lo que valía la acción cuando se supo de la inversión inicial que hizo en la compañía.
Most of these “top” accounts tweet rarely and post very little content.
En el texto que envió a la Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de Estados Unidos (la SEC), Elon Musk (que debe su fortuna a los autos Tesla y sus cohetes SpaceX) afirma: “Invertí en Twitter porque creo en su potencial para ser la plataforma de libre expresión alrededor del mundo, y creo que la libre expresión es un imperativo social para una democracia funcional.”
Elon Musk defiende a rajatabla la idea de la libre expresión, sin limitaciones, y esa parece ser una de las razones por las que, unos días después de que se supiera que había comprado el 9,2 por ciento de Twitter, declinara un sillón en el directorio de la empresa, puesto que le permitía cierta injerencia sobre el destino de la plataforma fundada por Jack Dorsey y Evan Williams en 2006, pero que a la vez le imponía limitaciones a su poder sobre la compañía; si era miembro del directorio tenía un límite de compra de acciones del 14,9 por ciento. Los números de porcentajes (aún con sus decimales) son importantes, porque implican un poder de voto (y veto) sobre el rumbo de la compañía.
Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint.
“Mi oferta es la mejor y es la final; y si no es aceptada tendré que reconsiderar mi posición como accionista”, dice Elon Musk en la carta que le envió a la SEC con su oferta de compra de Twitter por US$ 43.000 millones, y con la promesa de transformarla en una empresa privada (es decir, que deje de cotizar en Bolsa). “Desde que hice mi inversión -agrega Musk en el escrito- comprendí que la compañía no crecerá ni cumplirá su imperativo social (libre expresión) en su forma actual. Twitter necesita ser transformada en una compañía privada. Twitter tiene un potencial extraordinario. Yo lo voy a desbloquear”.
Absolutista de la libertad de expresión
La relación entre Twitter y la libertad de expresión ha sido tortuosa en los últimos años, con un caso paradigmático: el cierre de la cuenta de Donald Trump luego del ataque al Capitolio estadounidense, en 2016 (que llevó al expresidente a lanzar su propia red social, Truth Social, donde asegura que no habrá límites a lo que se puede decir). También, con los bloqueos a cuentas de medios estatales rusos tras la invasión a Ucrania (lo que le valió que la plataforma, al igual que Facebook, quedaran anuladas en Rusia); Twitter ha sido un vehículo excepcionalmente eficiente para difundir noticias, datos relevantes y verdades; es el ágora internacional de buena parte del planeta (no sólo políticos y famosos; también gente común que logra hacer masivo su mensaje); y también para hacer circular a la velocidad de la luz contenido falso y acosos masivos a diversos usuarios, hostigados en forma global por decir lo que piensan.
Elon Musk se autodefine como un “absolutista de la libertad de expresión”, es decir, de no poner ningún límite a lo que se puede decir, y en buena medida lo ha hecho en varias ocasiones a lo largo de su vida; eso le trajo múltiples problemas: desde juicios en su contra a tener que dejar la presidencia de su compañía, pasando por el pago de multas varias, molestias que pudo resolver gracias a los infinitos recursos que habilita su fortuna, y que le permiten pensar más allá de las legislaciones de los países, algo que no suele estar disponible para todos los usuarios comunes de Twitter. Musk, además, no siempre es consecuente con sus propias posturas: por ejemplo, buscó impedir que una cuenta de Twitter rastreara su avión privado, pese a que la información es pública.
En un comunicado, Twitter respondió a la oferta: “El directorio de Twitter revisará cuidadosamente la propuesta para determinar el curso que considera es el mejor para la compañía y para todos los accionistas de Twitter.” Ahora tendrán que decidir si aceptan la oferta, y se quedan sin su participación en la empresa, pero se llevan más dinero que el que obtendrían por sus acciones hoy, o si la rechazan, mantienen el control y participación de la empresa, pero se arriesgan a que baje el valor de la acción, sobre todo si Musk vende ese 9,2 por ciento de Twitter que compró hace un mes.
Según un archivo de la SEC, Musk no podrá poseer más del 14,9% de Twitter mientras forme parte de la junta, ni tampoco en los 90 días posteriores. Los títulos suben un 9%
El CEO de Tesla se unirá a la junta directiva de Twitter, tras adquirir este lunes una participación de la red social del 9,2% que le convirtió en accionista mayoritario y revalorizó sus títulos un 27% al cierre de la jornada.
Según un archivo de la SEC, Musk no podrá poseer más del 14,9% de Twitter mientras forme parte de la junta, ni tampoco en los 90 días posteriores. En las negociaciones previas a la apertura de Wall Street, las acciones de la red social suben más de un 9%.
«Estoy emocionado de compartir que vamos a nombrar a Elon Musk miembro de nuestra junta«, ha escrito el director ejecutivo de Twitter, Parag Agrawal, en un mensaje difundido en la tuitosfera.
Agrawal ha explicado que la compañía ha mantenido conversaciones con Musk en las últimas semanas y que está convencido de que aportará «un gran valor» a la Junta Directiva de la empresa, en la que permanecerá hasta el encuentro anual de Twitter en 2024.
En las últimas semanas, Musk había estado realizando encuestas en Twitter sobre cómo debería ser el diseño de la plataforma, donde cuenta con más de 80 millones de seguidores e incluso insinuó que podría lanzar una nueva red social.
Tras comunicar la compra de ayer, el mediático director ejecutivo del fabricante de automóviles volvió a realizar otra encuesta. Esta vez, sobre una de las grandes peticiones de los usuarios de Twitter: un botón de edición
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as CEO of the social media platform, the company announced. He will be succeeded by Twitter’s current Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal.
Dorsey will remain on the board until his term expires in 2022.
Agrawal has been CTO since 2017 and at Twitter since 2011.
In a letter posted on his Twitter account, Dorsey said he was “really sad…yet really happy” about leaving the company and that it was his decision.
Dorsey has faced several distractions as CEO, starting with the fact that he’s also founder and CEO of the payments company Square. Critics have long complained that the arrangement has divided his attention to Twitter’s detriment.
Twitter shares rose 5% to $49.47 in morning trading after the announcement.
Dorsey became Twitter CEO in 2007, but was forced out the next year. He returned to the role in 2015. In his good-bye letter, he said that he has “worked hard to ensure this company can break away from its founding and founders” and that to focus too much on whether companies are led by their founders is “severely limiting.”
While Twitter has high-profile users like politicians and celebrities and is a favorite of journalists, its user base lags far behind old rivals like Facebook and YouTube and newer ones like TikTok. It has just over 200 million daily active users, a common industry metric.
Twitter also announced on Monday a new board chairman, Bret Taylor, to replace its existing chair, Patrick Pichette. Pichette will remain on the board. Taylor has been on Twitter’s board since 2016 and is the president and COO of business software company Salesforce.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
Shares of Twitter are surging on a report that co-founder Jack Dorsey will step down as the company’s chief executive.
Twitter’s stock, which has consistently underperformed the market, jumped more than 10% at the opening bell Monday before trading was halted pending news.
CNBC first reported that Dorsey may step down soon, citing anonymous sources.
Twitter Inc. did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press early Monday. On Sunday, Dorsey sent the tweet “I love Twitter.”
Dorsey is also the top executive at Square, a financial payments company that he founded, and some big investors have openly questioned whether he can be effective leading both.
Last year, the company came to an agreement with two of those activist investors that kept Dorsey in the top job and gave a seat on the company board to Elliott Management Corp., which owned about 4% of Twitter’s stock, and another to Silver Lake.
Twitter was caught up in the heated political atmosphere leading up to the 2020 election. Former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter, with Dorsey defending the move, saying the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and Trump’s tweets after the event resulted in a risk to public safety and created an “extraordinary and untenable circumstance” for the company. Trump sued the company, along with Facebook and YouTube, in July for alleged censorship.
The early days of Twitter began with a tweet sent by Dorsey on March 21, 2006, that read “just setting up my twttr.” Twitter went through a period of robust growth during its start, but as the growth slowed the San Francisco company began tweaking its format in a bid to make it easier and more engaging to use.
(CNN) For the past four years, tech giants including Facebook (FB), Google (GOOGL) and Twitter (TWTR) have invested massively in beefing up their election security efforts — creating new rules for political advertisers, hiring thousands of content moderators and building ties with law enforcement. The aim has been to avoid a repeat of the 2016 campaign, which was marred by foreign meddling and highlighted how woefully unprepared social media companies were for an attack on US democracy leveraging their platforms.
Now, as they gear up for the most consequential presidential race of the decade, the internet’s largest platforms are eager to show they are ready.
On Wednesday, the companies met with federal officials to discuss how they’re monitoring their platforms for foreign interference and preparing for the Republican and Democratic national conventions. And on Thursday, Facebook, Google and Twitter all announced new or forthcoming efforts to promote voter registration and participation. Facebook told reporters on a conference call Thursday that it has engaged in testsand exercises to try to anticipate certain election night scenarios.
But for all their efforts to hunt down foreign influence operations targeting the 2020 race, tech platforms are still figuring out how to handle what may be the biggest variable of the election: President Donald Trump himself. Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have publicly diverged over how to address Trump’s controversial claims in the past; now, the stakes are even higher.
Trump has indicated he may not be willing to accept the outcome of the 2020 race, and in recent weeks has increasingly lobbed unsubstantiated attacks against mail-in voting, claiming without evidence that the practice will lead to «massive» vote-rigging. The debate has prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to warn that «partisan political voices» risk making vote-by-mail vulnerable to harmful misinformation and confusion campaigns at a time when a record number of voters may turn to this option given the pandemic. The agency said voters should rely on state and local officials for accurate voting information.
Tech companies have spent years learning the costly lessons of previous elections, but have only recently begun to grapple with Trump head-on, said Graham Brookie, director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, a non-partisan policy think tank.
«The [tech] industry has a fairly robust approach to the overall issue of enfranchisement and election content, but it remains reactive to the single largest amplifier of election process disinformation: the President of the United States,» Brookie said. «Donald Trump has used process disinformation as a strategy dating back to his first primary in 2016, in which he laid the groundwork of calling the election ‘rigged’ as an insurance policy just in case he lost. His 2020 strategy is the same but on steroids, mixed with real attempts to suppress the process of voting by undermining the Postal Service and other efforts in the middle of a pandemic.»
Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, told CNN Thursday that efforts by Trump and others to discredit mail-in voting, or to cast doubt on election results, which could take significantly longer this year because of mail-in voting, are «something we’re particularly focused on.»
«For election night and the period after, it’s not just about how to vote, but we’re preparing to show similarly clear information about vote counts,» Gleicher said. «We’ll have teams working 24/7 to stop actors using deceptive campaigns, to stop that uncertainty.»
Still, due to the pandemic, tech companies, government officials and independent researchers are more limited than usual in their ability to predict disruptive events, Gleicher added.
Tech companies say they have partnered with state and local election officials to relay accurate information to the public. On Thursday, Facebook launched a centralized hub for voting information, and added that users will now be reminded about upcoming registration deadlines and whether their states have expanded mail-in voting. Facebook will also apply information labels to user posts that appear to be about voting. Meanwhile Google said Thursday that when users search for information about how to vote or how to register, the search engine will now place localized instructions atop the results.
«We work with non-partisan, third-party data partners, such as Democracy Works,» Google said in a blog post, «which aggregates official data directly from state and county election administrators, and we link to your state government’s official website for more information.
But it is far from clear that those efforts can withstand Trump’s determined efforts to discredit mail-in voting, or how the companies might handle social media posts by Trump that reject the election results.
In response to CNN’s questions on the matter, Google referred to its existing policies that prohibit voter suppression or incitement to interfere in democratic processes.
Twitter has been the most aggressive in flagging and removing Trump’s content, provoking a White House executive order seeking to clamp down on social media. Yet the platform remains Trump’s preferred megaphone, and he continues to spread unfounded claims about mail-in ballots on the service. On July 30, he tweeted that widespread mail-in voting poses «RISKS to our Democracy» and called it «dangerous,» despite the fact that all 50 states support at least some level of vote-by-mail.
Twitter said Thursday it will introduce new voting tools and resources to help Americans participate in the election.
«Twitter is working hard to increase informed participation in democratic processes around the world,» said Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, VP of public policy and philanthropy, in a statement. «Ahead of the 2020 US Election, we’re focused on empowering every eligible person to register and vote through partnerships, tools and new policies that emphasize accurate information about all available options to vote, including by mail and early voting.»
Facebook, meanwhile, has been reluctant to remove Trump’s content despite internal and external criticism. Facebook said it has begun to think about the possibility of delayed vote counts on election night, and the opportunity that could present to misinformation distributors. While the company promised to connect users to «the latest authoritative information and news on and after Election Night,» it said the public will need to wait for further details.
«We will have more to share on additional preparations soon,» wrote Naomi Gelt, VP of product and social impact, in a blog post.
But merely giving voters basic information about the process of voting isn’t enough, said Vanita Gupta, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
«Facebook must also do more to combat the weaponization of voting and election disinformation and misinformation on its platform,» she said. «Our democracy depends on it.»
They publish photos of people who prefer to continue partying despite the health contingency.
BY: NEFTALÍ HERNÁNDEZ
They only had to do one thing: stay home. However, for many cancunenses this was not possible not because they had to work or carry out some priority activity. No: simply because they did not want to.
But this attitude of little respect for mobility restrictions could come to an end in the only way that many of these people understand: through going viral on social networks and not precisely with a title of «lord» or «lady «, But with a more pejorative:» covidiotas «.
What is a covidiota? The term started as a hashtag on social media to highlight anyone who breached the quarantine due to Covid-19. Little by little, from a trending topic it became an appellation that was regionalized in the same networks in order to embarrass citizens more directly and personally.
And you, have you already been on CovidiotasCun?
Under this tenor, it was revealed from an account on Instragram and Twitter that aims to balcony social network users in Cancun who prefer to party at bars or private homes not only in breach of the mobility restriction, but also without caring about compliance with healthy distance measures or avoid unnecessary crowds.
On Instagram, the message is pretty clear:
“Stay in your fucking house if you don’t want to be here. If you know someone who should appear send us DM with the reason and evidence Twitter: covidiotascun ”.
Among his first posts, the Instagram account @covidiotascun lists how you can end up in his gallery:
You have parties with more than 10 people. You put the health of others at risk. You don’t take prevention measures into account. You leave your house. You think the Covid-19 is a joke or «doesn’t exist».
The social media platform was alight with hashtags honoring the president’s birthday, as well as those castigating him for his handling of current events or simply praising former President Obama instead.
Twitter trolling was alive and well on Sunday as President Donald Trump celebrated his 74th birthday.
While there were plenty of hashtags in full support of Trump from his fans and followers, there were just as many taking jabs at the president in one way or another.
In what is likely an effort to goad Trump, who has criticized him constantly, former President Barack Obama was the subject of many of the various barbs slung Trump’s way through the social media platform, including trending topics for «REAL President» and «Best President Ever.»
In fact, the top trend through much of the morning was one declaring June 14, «Obama Day.» «Happy Birthday Trump» had to settle for second, but the twin placements serve well to emphasize the divide in this nation over the president.
But perhaps the most politically poignant hashtag to emerge as America celebrates the birthday of its president is «All Birthdays Matter,» which hit number one in trending topics on Saturday night in anticipation of Trump’s big day, and continued trending into Sunday.
A clear nod to the current protests against police brutality and systemic racism, it’s a not-so-subtle way to show how «All Lives Matter» is at best a complete and total misunderstanding of the intent behind «Black Lives Matter.» At worst, it’s just super racist.
As activists have tried to explain, «All Lives Matter» does not mean that white lives don’t matter or that black lives matter more. It means that black lives are not being valued or are actively under attack, so we need to emphasize and shine a spotlight on black lives right now to right this wrong.
Sunday is Donald Trump’s birthday. By sharing «All Birthdays Matter» during his birthday, it’s a way of creating a parallel so that people can see how unnecessary it is to say «All Lives Matter» in response to a call that «Black Lives Matter.»
Or perhaps they believe no one should wish the president happy birthday today because while today may be his birthday, «All Birthdays Matter!» Why single out this birthday when everyone has one and their birthdays are just as important and valuable as Trump’s?
Or maybe it’s okay to single out anyone who’s birthday is today because right now it is their moment. And telling them happy birthday doesn’t mean you don’t care about someone else’s birthday. It just means that right now, at this moment in time, you’re going to focus on this birthday.
«Black Lives Matter» is at the heart of the current and ongoing protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing while in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers.
He died under the knee of former officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on him for 8 minutes and 46 seconds as he pleaded for his life, called for his dead mother and ultimately passed. Chauvin has been charged with 2nd degree murder and manslaughter, while the other three officers have been charged with aiding and abetting that murder.
As just the latest in a string of incidents of police brutality — disproportionately against black people — George Floyd’s death and name became the symbol of these protests, as «Black Lives Matter» emerged again as a battle cry against systemic racism in law enforcement and beyond.
And as happens every time the phrase emerges, counter phrases like «Blue Lives Matter» and «All Lives Matter» emerged from those who don’t get what «Black Lives Matter» is saying.
Always they seem to think the call is that only black lives matter or that somehow black lives matter more. Instead, they just want people to acknowledge that black lives matter at all in a country that doesn’t appear to value them — and maybe start to prove it.
You can check out some of the takes under the «All Birthdays Matter» trending topic below as Twitter tries to use it to educate the masses about the «BLM» movement and its true meaning — and maybe take (more than) a few jabs at Trump along the way:
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