Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as Saturday, to take place before November 1, when staff were scheduled to receive stock grants (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

A look at an online reputation laundering market for victims of Nigeria's unlicensed, predatory loan apps, which publicly shame borrowers who can't pay (Olatunji Olaigbe/Rest of World) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

[Thread] Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing governmental pressures, even as his wealth via Tesla depends on China and others (Alex Stamos/@alexstamos) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, Within CEO Chris Milk, and others to testify in the FTC case against Meta's acquisition of Within (Ismail Shakil/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks in 2022, up just 3.6% YoY, and ~10x slower than in 2021 (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

General Motors says it is suspending advertising on Twitter as it evaluates the "direction of the platform under their new ownership" (CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Apple stock closes up 7.56%, its best day since April 2020; it was the second-best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average behind Intel on Friday (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter's unmatched record defending "actual" free speech globally (Mike Masnick/Techdirt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech (David Gilbert/VICE) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Twitter is testing a blockchain-agnostic feature for displaying NFTs through tweets in partnership with Dapper Labs, Magic Eden, Rarible, and Jump.trade (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5