Crypto fraud value surged 32 per cent to £226m this year November 28, 2022 Crypto fraud has surged during the tough economic climate by almost a third this year alone. More than 10,000 crypto fraud reports were made this year, a 16 per cent rise on 2021, as thousands of people were scammed. The value of UK crypto fraud surged by 32 per cent from £171m to £226m this [...]
Former Disney chief says he didn’t buy Twitter because of bot concerns September 8, 2022 Disney’s former chief has said the company did not purchase Twitter back in 2016 because a “substantial portion” of its users “were not real”. Speaking at Vox Media’s Code Conference, Bob Iger explained that the media giant had debated snapping up the social media firm, but decided against it. “We did look very carefully at all of [...]
Markets stumble but Doge continues climb ahead of Musk’s SNL appearance May 5, 2021 Bitcoin and Ethereum stumble, Doge continues climb ahead of Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live.
Twitter faces major outage as users get locked out of accounts July 14, 2022 Thousands are reporting an outage on Twitter, with users being locked out of accounts. According to stats collected by DownDetector, issues first began to appear at around 12.55pm on July 14. The site showed that 50 per cent of users were experiencing problems, while 42 per cent are having trouble with the app. Users were [...]
Musk says sorry to sacked Twitter worker after exchange claiming he does ‘no actual work’ went viral March 8, 2023 Twitter owner Elon Musk has apologised to a sacked worker after their exchange on the social media platform went viral. Icelandic entrepreneur Halli Thorleifsson had sent a direct public tweet to the billionaire after he was locked out of his work’s computer system, telling Musk he could not get HR to respond to him. Musk [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Could Musk back out of the $44bn Twitter deal May 23, 2022 What’s the most expensive mistake you’ve ever made? Booked a holiday for the wrong dates? Added an extra zero to the £260 you owed? Well, for Elon Musk, he thought it would just be $1bn to get out of the $44bn Twitter takeover. But strict merger laws, brought in after the financial crisis, could force [...]
Trump returns to X, formerly Twitter, and posts for first time two year…. his mug shot August 25, 2023 Former president Donald Trump has returned to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, firing off his first message in more than two years shortly after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail. He posted a photo of his mug shot and the words “Election interference. Never surrender!” along with a link to his [...]
Satellite duo in reported merge talks amid wave of sector consolidation August 4, 2022 A pair of US and Luxembourg-based satellite giants are reportedly in talks to merge, as the increasingly scrutinised sector undergoes a wave of consolidation. SES and stateside group Intelsat are in discussions, the Financial Times first reported yesterday. People familiar with the matter stressed that talks are still in their early stages. It follows UK [...]
Musk sued for not making Twitter stake increase public April 13, 2022 Elon Musk is being sued because he didn’t make public he had bought a major stake in Twitter. The Tesla and SpaceX billionaire, who recently became the largest shareholder in the social media giant, is facing action from investors in a New York federal court. This comes after Musk bought 9.2 per cent in Twitter [...]
Whether it’s otters or guns, social media cannot exist without algorithms December 7, 2022 If you follow me on Twitter, you may have come for the digital rights content and stayed for the otters. I joined Twitter reluctantly for professional reasons – to find out what is going on in the world, connect with people doing insightful work, and to share my own professional content. But the more time [...]