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Oops — Twitter: We goofed up by suspending users tracking the conflict with Russia. John Paul Rathbone and Cristina Criddle, FT - Feb 24, 2022 3:51 pm UTC Enlarge / Screencap from a tweet by @OSINT_Ukraine reporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine and incursion into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Twitter said it had mistakenly suspended the accounts of open source intelligence reporters posting about Russia’s military build-up around Ukraine, leading to many of them accusing the Russian state of launching a “bot” campaign against them. Based on publicly available satellite imagery, open source reporters have used social media to supply a steady commentary on the activities of Russian forces near the Ukrainian border, providing a valuable alternative source of information to Western intelligence reports. The people behind the suspended accounts said they believed they had been the target of an attack by Russian bots—computers that mimic the activity of human users—that had mass-reported their content as being suspicious. This led their content to be removed automatically by Twitter’s moderation technology. “It is an attack on journalism and people who rely on these accounts to post the facts over other news outlets,” Kyle Glen, co-founder of @Conflicts, which has 337,000 followers, said.…

Social media accounts have proven crucial in sharing footage of Russian forces and armoured vehicles entering Ukraine from several directions.But researchers who had been sharing this material from social media, known as open-source intelligence or OSINT, found their Twitter accounts had been suspended.Users who had their accounts suspended shared their concerns in a Twitter thread, calling it an "absurd decision by Twitter".How did it happen?Twitter said on Wednesday it had mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts that were posting about Russian military movements and said the action was not due to a coordinated bot campaign or mass reporting of the accounts by other users."We've been proactively monitoring for emerging narratives that are violative of our policies, and, in this instance, we took enforcement action on a number of accounts in error," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement."We're expeditiously reviewing these actions and have already proactively reinstated access to a number of affected accounts".The Twitter spokesperson said the erroneous action had been based on its rules against synthetic and manipulated media.Ukraine declared a state of emergency on Wednesday and told its citizens in Russia to flee, while Moscow began evacuating its Kyiv embassy in the latest ominous signs for Ukrainians…

Ashneer Grover’s comment “yeh sab doglapan hai (all this is hypocrisy)” from Shark Tank India is one of the most popular memes this year. And even though the show has ended, Grover has continued to dominate social media platforms with more catchphrases. Now, desi audiences are imagining him giving advice in different roles. As the row of financial fraud at BharatPe continues, meme creators joined in the fun with a renewed gusto. Trying to imagine how Grover would react in any given situation or what would he say if he is in a different profession, like a teacher or a coach, Twitter has been inundated with jokes. With funny anecdotes and using many other one-liners Grover used in the reality show to turn down pitches by budding entrepreneurs to seek investments, desi Twitterati is having fun, and at times poking fun at the man as well. “Ashneer Grover as a lockscreen wallpaper should help me reduce my phone addiction ,” one quipped online. Another added: “All of us need a friend like Ashneer Grover for reality checks.” Check out some of the funniest tweets trending on Twitter here: Imagine Ashneer Grover, going through your CV!! Now start working on the…

The Xbox Game Pass Twitter account has deleted key images and several past tweets, suggesting that the social media account may have been hacked. It appears that the official Xbox Game Pass Twitter account has been hacked, with past tweets being deleted along with profile and header images. Microsoft's video game subscription service grants users access to a large roster of digital games, along with other services like Xbox Live Gold and EA Play. February 2022 adds new Xbox Game Pass games like Madden NFL 22 and Mass Effect Legendary Edition, though it appears that the beloved service's social media account may be under attack. By providing users access to an ever-growing selection of popular games, Xbox Game Pass has become an incredibly enticing deal for many gamers. Microsoft is constantly supporting the service by adding new games, with many new releases such as Halo Infinite joining Game Pass simultaneously at launch. The service provides access to many backwards-compatible Xbox 360 games, too, and Game Pass users can carry their progress over to the standalone version of a game should it be rotated out of the subscription service's digital library. While an Xbox Game Pass rival from PlayStation is "inevitable," according to Xbox head Phil Spencer, for now Microsoft's service is essentially one of a kind. The Xbox Game Pass…

As America celebrated Presidents Day on Monday to honour the legacy of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Donald Trump, arguably America’s most controversial president, launched his social media app Truth Social. Truth Social faced several glitches as soon as it was launched on Apple’s iOs. Users were either unable to register their accounts or they encountered “error” messages. However, TechCrunch reported, Truth Social became the highest-ranking free app on Apple’s App Store despite all the pitfalls. Many Trump critics took the app’s rocky start as an opportunity to diss him with #TruthSocial raking in thousands of tweets within hours of the launch. Truth Social will not have any censorship. As long as your posts are about how amazing Dear Leader Donald Trump is, your account will remain in good standing. Join us today! — TheTruthSocial (parody) (@TheTruthSocial) February 16, 2022 #TruthSocial Devin Nunes and Donald Trump boast that Truth social, will be a hub for free thinkers. pic.twitter.com/yOrkE4HEsr — KeanoTheDog (@judgeyourself99) February 21, 2022 Devin Nunes just completed the cable management over at #TruthSocial pic.twitter.com/r9lYRVcNNg — Bella de Monsterella 🐈 🌊🇺🇸 (@FrozenFingers1) February 21, 2022 Relax everyone, #TruthSocial will be working as soon as Mexico pays for the firewall. — Alex Cole (@acnewsitics)…

The Jam-DEX is named after the Jamaican Digital Exchange following a competition. Its slogan is “no cash, no problem!” 2723 Total views 45 Total shares The Bank of Jamaica revealed the name of its upcoming central bank digital currency (CBDC) after a design competition, only to receive backlash from the local crypto community. The central bank of Jamaica announced on Twitter that it had chosen the name “Jam-DEX” along with the tagline and logo for its upcoming CBDC, scheduled for late 2022. While the project is promising, its name could be easily misconstrued as a decentralized exchange (DEX), and its logo is “terrible,” according to the community’s response.The name Jam-DEX is said to be taken from Jamaican Digital Exchange, with the slogan “no cash, no problem!” It was picked as the winner by the central bank following a competition. While the winner took 600,000 Jamaican dollars ($3,800) home, the community is somewhat left unsatisfied with the result.. Is it a CBDC or a DEX? And I appreciate the attempt at crowd sourcing the design - fairly Web 3 of you but... this logo cannot work. It should have been put to a broader voting mechanism - the panelists let you down here…

By BERNARD CONDON NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's social media app that he hopes will rival Twitter launched Monday as he seeks a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight Big Tech limits on speech a year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. His Truth Social app was offered for download from the Apple App Store to a limited number of subscribers who had preordered, with others added to a waiting list to be given access over the next 10 days. The site encountered technical glitches shortly after launch, with reports that subscribers were shut out for hours. Others had trouble signing on. The site is not expected to be open to anyone who wants to download it until next month. “Due to massive demand, we have placed you on our waitlist,” read a message some of those trying to access the platform, adding, “We love you.” Trump is hoping Truth Social will attract the millions who followed him on Twitter as he hints at a third presidential run, triggering a wave of other subscribers to justify the billions of dollars that investors have bet on the venture. Shares in a company…

Twitter might be testing an escape hatch for users who don’t want to be part of a thread. On Friday, writer and researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted an apparent screenshot of a new “leave this conversation” feature. As described in the screenshot, the feature would untag your username from a Twitter conversation, prevent people from mentioning you in the conversation again, and stop you from receiving notifications about it. (You can still see the thread.) The feature looks different from “mute this conversation,” an existing option that turns off notifications for a thread you’re mentioned in. According to a followup tweet, leaving the conversation will make your Twitter handle appear as plain text in the tweet where you’re mentioned, rather than the hyperlink someone would normally see if they tap your Twitter handle. That could add friction that discourages other users from pulling you into ancillary conversations and signal that you’re not interested in participating. As usual, Twitter declined to confirm whether it’s testing the feature in an email to The Verge. But the company has steadily introduced subtle ways to control how other users engage with your account. That includes tweaks that simplify existing options like forcing a user…