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The new Twitter logo "X", which replaces the world-recognized blue bird, is installed on the rooftop of the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. IMAGES
Twitter "chose confrontation" by exiting a voluntary EU disinformation code of practice that lays ground rules for an incoming European law on digital services, according to a European Union commissioner. "We believe this is a mistake of Twitter. Twitter has chosen the hard way. They chose confrontation," commissioner Vera Jourova tells journalists. SOUNDBITE
Two people who claim to be Twitter employees, speak with reporters outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California. It later emerged that they were likely practical jokers pretending to be laid off Twitter staff. Elon Musk has begun his first full day leading Twitter, with critics and fans anxious to see how the planet's richest man will run one of the world's leading social media platforms. Among Musk's first acts in power on Thursday were the reported firing of chief executive Parag Agrawal and other senior officials -- though the company did not reply to AFP's request for comment and Agrawal still listed himself as CEO on his Twitter profile. IMAGES
Twitter, AirBnb and Booking.com pause their services across Russia. IMAGES
Instagram's boss pushes a rosy view of the app's impact on teens in testimony to US lawmakers that is at odds with damning news reports based on the firm's own research. "Sometimes young people can come to Instagram dealing with difficult things in their lives. I believe that Instagram can help in those critical moments," the app's head Adam Mosseri says before a Senate commerce subcommittee. SOUNDBITE
Russia says it is disrupting Twitter's services because the platform had failed to remove "illegal" content, the latest in a series of moves exerting control over foreign tech giants. IMAGES of Twitter wire in Russian
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