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Home | India | Modis Note Mentioning His Muslim Friend Abbas Sparks Meme Fest On Twitter Published: Published Date - 05:38 PM, Sat - 18 June 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday penned a special note for his mother, who has entered her 100th year. In the note, he shared a childhood story about his friend ‘Abbas’, who was raised by his parents. Modi recalled how his father brought his friend home after the latter lost his father to an untimely death. As he posted the story on his blog, social media users began to post hilarious memes leaving everyone in splits. The note said: “Mother would find happiness in other people’s joys. Our house may have been small, but she was extremely large-hearted. A close friend of my father used to stay in a nearby village. After his untimely death, my father brought his friend’s son, Abbas, to our home. He stayed with us and completed his studies. Mother was as affectionate and caring towards Abbas just like she did for all of us siblings. Every year on Eid, she used to prepare his favourite dishes. On festivals, it was commonplace for neighbourhood kids to come to our…

Klay Thompson has had a lot of time to read during his two-and-a-half years of injury rehab. Books, sailboat manuals, oceanographic charts, and of course, salty tweets. One of which he singled out in his post-game presser after the Golden State Warriors won their fourth title of the Klay-Steph-Drayomond-Andre era. Jaren Jackson Jr. tweeted this after the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Warriors 123-95 on March 28th. It was perhaps the low point in the Warriors’ season, their sixth loss in seven games, and destroyed any hopes they had of edging Memphis for the second seed in the West. But the Warriors also played that game without Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and of course, Klay Thompson. Well, Klay remembered. Klay, who may or may not be a little toasty: "There was this one guy on the Grizzlies who tweeted 'strength in numbers' when they beat us during the regular season, that pissed me off so bad ... that bum ... twitter fingers, can you believe it? I got a memory like an elephant."— Brady Klopfer (@BradyKlopferNBA) June 17, 2022 In fact, you should watch the man himself address the Memphis hater. Yes, the Memphis Grizzlies were eliminated five weeks ago, but…

OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 27: Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors looks on during the game against the Portland Trail Blazers at ORACLE Arena on December 27, 2018 in Oakland, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images) Leave it up to NBA Twitter to roast Kevin Durant after Golden State won a title without him on the team.The internet usually is undefeated after incredible championship games like the one we saw on Thursday when the Golden State Warriors beat Boston, and tonight’s biggest victim was Kevin Durant.Fans and various media publications did not hold back on Durant, and most of their jokes were hilarious.A lot of people felt that after Durant left the Warriors, a championship may not happen for them, but Steph Curry and company proved all the doubters wrong.In today’s day and age, athletes like Durant are perfect targets for jokes after a team they used to play for wins a title, so he better mute his name on Twitter and ride this out. He does not…

Asking people to be nice on Twitter makes people nicer on Twitter, the company has announced, hailing the success of an experiment that prompts users to reconsider tweets that might be hurtful or offensive.Since 2020, the social network has tried to encourage users to be more considerate of others, by algorithmically spotting posts that appear aggressive or mean-spirited and prompting users to consider whether they want to send them, asking: “Want to review this before tweeting?”Now, in a study co-authored with Matthew Katsaros at Yale Law School, Twitter researchers say the prompts do indeed work to encourage a change in behaviour – and that the change sticks around long after the prompt was shown.“We found that out of every 100 tweets where users were prompted to reconsider, the following actions were taken: 69 were sent without revision; 9 were cancelled; 22 were revised,” wrote Twitter’s Kathy Yang and Lauren Fratamico. Of those 22 revisions, only one was rewritten to be made more offensive, and more than a third were redrafted to be more palatable.Sign up to First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every weekday morning at 7am BSTThe effect lasts longer than simply the initial tweet; compared with…

Elon Musk has expressed concern about the number of spam bots in Twitter's user base. AP Twitter has canceled a companywide retreat to Disneyland in a cost-cutting measure as it grapples with C-suite chaos and a worsening economy amid buyout talks with Elon Musk. The social media firm was set to fly out its employees to the California theme park in a corporate event slated for January 2023. The cancellation was confirmed hours before Musk was set to discuss his stalled takeover bid during what is expected to be a contentious all-hands meeting with Twitter staffers. “We’ve made the difficult decision to not move forward with our OneTeam gathering in 2023, and are limiting domestic and international business travel for business-critical purposes only,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Post on Thursday. “The reduction of travel and event costs allow us to operate in a more responsible and efficient manner, considering the global macroeconomic environment we’re currently facing,” the spokesperson added. Twitter last held its “OneTeam” corporate retreat in early 2020, shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Bloomberg. The last trip took place in Houston, Texas. Twitter was set to hold a corporate…

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai, China January 7, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song/File PhotoRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comNEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk on Wednesday appealed a judge's refusal to end his 2018 agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requiring a Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) lawyer to vet some of his posts on Twitter.According to a court filing, Musk will ask the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to overturn the April 27 decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman allowing his consent decree with the SEC to stand. read more The SEC declined to comment.The decree resolved an SEC lawsuit accusing Musk of defrauding investors by tweeting on Aug. 7, 2018, that he had "funding secured" to take his electric car company private, though a buyout was not close.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMusk agreed to let a Tesla lawyer screen tweets that might contain material information about the company. He and Tesla each also paid $20 million in civil fines, and Musk gave up his role as Tesla chairman.The SEC later opened a probe and subpoenaed documents concerning Musk's and Tesla's compliance…

FILE-- Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza exits federal court after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, in New York, May 20, 2014. MICHAEL APPLETON/NYT California conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza had a Twitter meltdown on Monday after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots released footage of former Attorney General Bill Barr mocking a film D’Souza wrote and directed.  That film — “2000 Mules” — is a documentary that purports to show evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Democrats (the election was not stolen and "2000 Mules" has debunked repeatedly). In the footage released by the House committee, Barr dismisses the movie’s claims as bogus and laughs before he does so.  "The election was not stolen by fraud,” he said. “And I haven't seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the '2000 Mules' movie."  In response, D’Souza, who was previously convicted of a felony for campaign finance violations, sent out a barrage of tweets attacking Barr. In one of the most unhinged tweets, D'Souza uses an analogy comparing Barr’s defense of the election’s legitimacy to a small-town sheriff who lets their city get robbed. “Bill Barr is the stereotypical small-town sheriff,…

Elon Musk has come to the defense of the woman behind the controversial Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” after she tweeted that she was receiving death threats. Musk, the Tesla CEO who has committed to acquiring the social media site for $44 billion, tweeted: “Why?” after the “Libs of TikTok” creator — who was identified by The Washington Post as Chaya Raichik of Brooklyn, New York — tweeted on Monday she had “now received about a dozen death threats after radical leftists accused me of being a domestic terrorist extremist.” “Twitter has not removed any of the accounts of those who sent the threats,” she added. Musk then commented: “A platform cannot be considered inclusive or fair if it is biased against half the country.” Elon Musk has come to the defense of the controversial Twitter account “Libs of TikTok” after its creator reported receiving death threats from other social media users.WireImage The tech mogul has vowed to change Twitter’s content moderation policies once he takes the company private once the acquisition is complete. Musk has said he intends to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, which was shut down after the events at the US Capitol on Jan.…