Chaos in Twitter Verification: The Impact of Paid Checkmarks

More twists and turns in the FTX, SBF, CZ saga as the entire crypto sector continues to get rocked. I’d love to tell you what is going on with Twitter’s whole checkmark saga, but I don’t know, Elon doesn’t know, and frankly, by the time you hear this, it’s likely to have changed anyway. GitHub is getting into the voice assistant game. And Amazon becomes the first company to LOSE a Trillion dollars in valuation.

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Links:

• Binance Walks Away From Deal to Rescue FTX (WSJ)
• SBF Tweet Storm This Morning
• FTX’s Collapse Spurs $10 Billion Drop in Decentralized Finance (Bloomberg)
• Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts (TechCrunch)
• Apple will spend $450 million with Globalstar and others to enable emergency satellite texting (CNBC)
• ‘Hey, GitHub!’ will let programmers code with just their voice (The Verge)
• Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value (Bloomberg)

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