New: 1/5 This is a story about money, power, and greed. It is about how one of Britain’s most celebrated financiers -- a self-styled maverick and gentleman rebel -- compulsively harassed and assaulted the women he came into contact with over 30 years.
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NEW: WPP's GroupM has told advertisers it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”
This after Musk appointed Linda Yaccarino as CEO. Source tells me Twitter has also made improvements around toxic content & allowing 3rd party measurement of brand safety
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San Francisco is facing the biggest test of its progressive ethos in a generation as fentanyl, housing shortages, violence, a tech downturn and fleeing retailers push the city’s global reputation to the brink
Read more by me and in this weekend’s
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Look out for the story on Thursday at ft.com/magazine
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Look out for the story on Thursday at ft.com/magazine
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Bluesky rightly losing the battle against calling posts skeets - skeets is a good name!
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Twitter’s decision to alienate the people who filled it up with popular free content is Bluesky’s gain
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But people like it because it looks and feels like Twitter - not because it’s open source and decentralised
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Bluesky is full of journalists and other Twitter- addicts, which makes it fun (hell threads! skeets!)
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Curious how many people actually signed up for Twitter Blue yesterday and today? Well, I've got the numbers and I'll be telling them to on MSNBC in ten minutes.
Here's a hint: They were net +28 between signups and cancellations. Not 2,800. Twenty-eight.
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Twitter blue tick rapture day gets better and better
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NEW: Have confirmed that LeBron, who has 52 million followers and has said he won’t pay for verification, was emailed by a Twitter employee with the offer to have his sub comped “on behalf of Elon Musk.”
James did not accept but his account is showing that he paid anyway.
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For this week's Magazine, I wrote about Twitter, an incredible website that has profoundly deranging effects on its users — not me though. It has had no effect on me whatsoever.
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The first proper picture of Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter arrested in Russia on absurd charges, in court ahead of his appeal against his jailing today.
So surreal to see Evan, who's covered so many Kafkaesque hearings as a reporter, in the cage
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Imagine Elon Musk's reaction if someone else had bought Twitter and then tried to charge him for tweeting ...
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“Reporting on Russia is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years.”
Our profile of a colleague whose desire to understand this country is being rewarded with imprisonment.
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“It couldn’t be worse. ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Bank’, these are the two things that bring Republicans and Democrats together: they both hate Silicon Valley and they both hate banks.”
Inside VCs battle to win over Washington. w/ +
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And if you subscribe we invite you to join our subscriber webinar on #SVBCollapse tmrw Thur 4-5pm GMT to put your questions to other big-brain colleagues and guest Register now for at
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Why de-influencers have it in for Dyson Airwraps, AirPods Max and Ugg Minis
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Wood-burning stoves, open fires and other domestic combustion now account for 27% of PM2.5 air pollution in the UK.
Burning wood etc at home is now the single biggest source of PM2.5, having overtaken industrial processes in 2021
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Our Hugo Young Award is NOW OPEN.
✍️ Political opinion writing competition for 16-25s
🏆 Amazing prizes for winners and runners up
📰 Feedback from experienced journalists
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We've got two new seriously fun, early career roles open ! First: Reporter for our human interest section, finding great angles on relationships, food, internet culture and more. If you like to ask lots of questions, this is for you!
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Google Search ads = higher revenue + more complaints
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I'm still staring at this graph showing UK wage collapse since 2010 vs peer nations. It's absolutely staggering.
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And of course the impacts of a conscious erosion of state capacity extend well beyond health.
Real wages are below where they were 18 years ago. There has not been a single year since austerity began when the average wage has matched the peak under the last Labour government.
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Very proud to have been part of the union task force which negotiated this progressive pay deal
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Financial Times journalists secure £4,200 pay rise for lowest paid
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Inspired by Fashionista putting Eve Jobs and Phoebe Gates on the list of‘nepo babies to watch in 2023’
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It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2022 ✨
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If Twitter crashes and you need to find me, the hell you will. I've got a two day head start on you, which is more than I need. I speak a dozen languages, know every local custom, I'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see me again.
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I was space Karen first, dammit.
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An account of life inside one of China's close contact quarantine facilities
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Never mind that it’s $100bn down and years behind schedule - Big Tech still believes in the driverless car revolution
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If Elon Musk needs to sell more Tesla shares to buy Twitter he should get a move on
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The way Britain is roasting itself during this political madness is so delightful to watch from overseas. Makes me feel homesick 🥹
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Christ. At least the Italians and the Greeks have decent food. We're going through all this with beans on fucking toast.
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this tweet is about social media execs now twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/s
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