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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

What a day. Who needs a drink? — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter says it plans to fight Musk in court. Legal experts say Twitter will ask the court for two things: A judgement that it has not breached the contract, and an order forcing Musk to go through with the deal. https://t.co/30d8NEStdr — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Elon Musk has officially announced he's backing out of the Twitter deal: https://t.co/30d8NEStdr The complete SEC filing: https://t.co/e9TmTLZAtF — PolitiTweet.org

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@pbump I humbly submit before you, Your Botfulness — PolitiTweet.org

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Every time we get a new plot point in the Twitter deal saga, I can’t help but think: A platform that’s as much as 90% spam bots like Elon claims cannot possibly be, at the same time, “extremely important to the future of civilization," as he has also claimed. — PolitiTweet.org

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Such an adorable, fun Friday story from @ashleyrgold about the best way to get around: https://t.co/AnnqnEgw3r https://t.co/G4ZSPfaLuK — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TonyaJoRiley: This is a BIG deal for privacy. Biden goes deep on privacy on the fact sheet on his new Executive Order for protecting re… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Johnson's departure will mark a remarkable downfall for a Prime Minister who was once seen as having political superpowers." https://t.co/KlelOE6LoR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SoVeryBritish: “Them’s the breaks” https://t.co/isLuDRqh1j — PolitiTweet.org

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Sort of feels like a matter of time before all these money-losing food delivery services get gobbled up by tech giants who have a track record of leveraging their scale to absorb years of losses in order to gain a long-term dominant position https://t.co/WYZ4uvrcKe — PolitiTweet.org

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The UK's competition regulator is probing the $68.7 billion Microsoft-Activision deal: https://t.co/kBDjxDCTjE — PolitiTweet.org

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(Which was published just 85 days ago) — PolitiTweet.org

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Welp, time for CRS to update this report https://t.co/IXOlqQaRVN https://t.co/oZhfVaJxgc — PolitiTweet.org

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The Supreme Court's climate decision doesn't just limit the EPA's powers — it has broad implications for regulatory agencies across the US government: https://t.co/E4qCokpx9p — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daphnehk: I have a new article! It's not so much pro-middleware as anti- the other options. Those are basically: - Let platforms retai… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LaMonicaBuzz: Block TikTok? @b_fung has more on why one FCC member wants the app removed from mobile phones. $AAPL $GOOGL https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @b_fung: Tech companies hold vast troves of user data that states may seek to go after abortion seekers or providers. But while platform… — PolitiTweet.org

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Tech companies hold vast troves of user data that states may seek to go after abortion seekers or providers. But while platforms have said they routinely challenge government requests, they’re silent for now on how they’ll handle these ones: https://t.co/RwTwd8E8xC w/@claresduffy — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple and Google should face an FTC probe over ad practices that could end up harming abortion-seekers, a group of US lawmakers wrote today to FTC Chair Lina Khan just before the Supreme Court handed down its decision overturning Roe v. Wade. https://t.co/7BtEOBHZuJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Tech giants including Meta, Microsoft and Netflix have vowed to financially support employees (or in some cases, their dependents) traveling to seek abortions in wake of today's Supreme Court ruling. Here's what the companies are saying. https://t.co/HbbhS30pJf — PolitiTweet.org

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With Roe overturned, it's worth revisiting this critical piece on how states may now seek to turn abortion-seekers' digital data against them. By my colleagues Jennifer Korn and @claresduffy: https://t.co/aAJ6gxnEsv — PolitiTweet.org

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The Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v. Wade: https://t.co/ePAoQOZmqS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SchneiderCNN: BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down New York gun law that restricts people from carrying concealed handguns in public. 6… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @leah_nylen: Klobuchar releases a new letter with 60 small and medium-sized tech co's supporting the self-preferencing antitrust bills.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Very interesting timing of that TikTok announcement in light of this BuzzFeed story: https://t.co/Dpi856twUK https://t.co/Sm2qQOSuyy — PolitiTweet.org

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The FAA announces a longer-term plan to let aviation "safely co-exist" with 5G around airports. Telcos pledged to keep their voluntary limitations in place until July 2023, while airlines will have to retrofit affected planes with new equipment by then. https://t.co/yKycfMgPf3 — PolitiTweet.org

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TikTok announces it’s now storing US user data on Oracle cloud servers and that “100% of US user traffic” is being hosted by Oracle. Backups are still stored on TikTok’s own servers in the US and Singapore for now, but those will eventually be deleted: https://t.co/Jwg0koNhsF — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Just in: Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be on Capitol Hill meeting with lawmakers next week, two people familiar with the plans tell me, coinciding with a massive, 11th-hour lobbying blitz by Big Tech to thwart passage of a key Senate antitrust bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @snlyngaas: New --> I look at the security environment for the midterms, focusing on physical threats to election workers & the potentia… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: "Anyone could just go into the middle of Times Square right now and say anything they want. They can just walk into the middle o… — PolitiTweet.org