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Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced that he is joining the great migration off Twitter, due to the rise in incendiary messaging on the social media platform since its purchase by controversial billionaire Elon Musk. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

Users whose tweets drive what remains of Twitter’s shrinking ad revenue are its most important employees. The illusory sense of community that still lingers on the platform is one of Musk’s most significant assets.

High-profile Republican members of Congress gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers in the first few weeks of Elon Musk’s reign over the social media network, while their Democratic counterparts experienced a decline washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Twitter chaos and Trump reinstatement leave users worried about data - security experts warn that the drastic job cuts may open the door to bad actors exploiting the platform's vulnerabilities and compromising user accounts. apple.news/AhogytzovR7SKM…

Leaving Twitter? Hive, Mastodon and Post are alternatives seeing new users : NPR npr.org/2022/11/24/113…

July 2022 Twitter user data breach: Hacker lists database of 5.4 million users for sale | Fortune fortune.com/2022/07/26/twi…

What Is Hive Social? A Guide to the Twitter Alternative cnet.com/culture/intern…

Elon Musk never cared if Twitter was a business failure – he wants a political win | Billionaire takeover was, in part, a political move aimed at “disrupting” communications networks that the American right has repeatedly claimed are biased against it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What Is Hive Social? Twitter Alternative Celebrates 1 Million Users newsweek.com/what-hive-soci…

Twitter faces boycott after Elon Musk readmits Donald Trump | Civil rights groups have threatened to boycott Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk readmitted controversial users including Donald Trump. thetimes.co.uk/article/twitte…

Everything is constantly changing. We are nomadic in our platform usage, moving from one platform to the next—often involuntarily. wired.com/story/twitter-…

Good time to remind folks of this fact, but now we are 1.5M strong. He will NEVER set foot in the Oval Office again.

With Trump back on Twitter, it’s a good time to watch this Jan 6 hearing. It covers each of Trump’s tweets that day, including those that have been deleted, and features multiple Trump WH staff describing his inexcusable conduct during the violence. january6th.house.gov/legislation/he…

Why Elon Musk Is Blowing Up Twitter’s Business - He can mouth the words brand safety, but he has no meaningful understanding of what that phrase means, or why advertisers might be genuinely concerned. Musk even seems skeptical of the very idea of safety. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Pelosi stepping down as top House Democrat after 2 decades in leadership washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

VA Mobile Clinic will be at the Half Moon Bay Library on Tues 6 Dec 10AM to 2PM.

This is how you write a headline. Thank you, @NPR.

What’s amazing to think about, almost 2 years after January 6, is that Trumpers thought Biden’s election meant the end of the country, and since then, they’ve gotten 10+ million jobs, rural broadband, upgraded roads/bridges, healthcare for veterans, lower Rx drug prices…