Debunking five myths that may be sinking Meta's stock, including claims of Facebook users deserting, Instagram engagement falling, and TikTok dominating (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

CoinGecko: normalized exchange volume for Crypto.com has dropped 91% over the past year, 90% for Huobi, 77% for FTX, 75% for Coinbase, and 57% for Binance (Stacy Elliott/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Sources: US-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple faces US federal probes into whether it improperly financed and transferred tech to a Chinese startup (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter plans to change Twitter Blue into a $19.99 subscription that verifies users; staff are told they will be fired if they don't build it by Nov. 7 (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Interview with Gerard de Graaf, director of a new EU office in San Francisco, on the DMA taking force on November 1 and its likely impact on tech companies (Khari Johnson/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges (Casey Newton/Platformer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Musk ordered Twitter homepage to be changed to show the Explore page to logged out users, not a sign-up form, which was quietly implemented on Friday (Alex Heath/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

How the detention of Huawei's then CFO Meng Wanzhou to stand trial in the US provoked a standoff between global powers and splintered US-China relations (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, "for cause", in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts (Martin Peers/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

New Orleans-based Resilia, which sells software to help nonprofits manage their operations, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$50M (Jared Council/Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5