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TWiT 906: A Bad Year for Billionaires - Twitter Trust and Safety Council firing, TikTok ban, FTX SBF arrested

TWiT 906: A Bad Year for Billionaires - Twitter Trust and Safety Council firing, TikTok ban, FTX SBF arrested

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  • Alex Barredo: @joinmastodon official account has been banned on Twitter.

  • Impulsive and Unjustified: CNN Slams Twitter for Suspending Journalists – Including Its Own Donie O'Sullivan.

  • Elon Musk Launches a Manhunt After Alarming Incident.

  • Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth flees home.

  • Elon Musk, Management Guru?

  • Senate votes to ban TikTok use on government devices.

  • What is TikTok & is TikTok Safe?

  • TikTok may push potentially harmful content to teens within minutes, study finds.

  • FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Is Arrested in the Bahamas.

  • FTX Investor Impact: Timeline of Realized Cryptocurrency Gains and Losses Shows FTX Hit Investor Wallets Less Than Previous Crises.

  • Trump Sells a New Image as the Hero of $99 Trading Cards.

  • Tesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful: We challenge Elon Musk to prove otherwise.

  • Apple backs out of Sunday Ticket negotiations with NFL.

  • Virtual Reality Pioneer John Carmack Is Leaving Meta.

  • Instagram launches new tool to help hacked users regain account access.

  • Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets.

  • ConnectSafely giving out $1K grants to schools & nonprofits.

Host: Leo Laporte


Guests: Jason Hiner, Mike Elgan, and Larry Magid


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