Twitter cries foul over Fox Sports’ computer-generated Dodgers fans

Fox Sports had computer-generated fans do the wave during the Giants-Dodgers game on Saturday, July 25, 2020. Fox Sports had computer-generated fans do the wave during the Giants-Dodgers game on…

Chrissy Teigen Apologizes to Megan Thee Stallion Over “S–tty” Twitter Joke

Chrissy Teigen found herself in “hot girl” water on Friday night. The 34-year-old cookbook author took to Twitter to partake in one of the online memes taking over the social media platform. She…

Twitter Cryptocurrency Scam Echoes Previous Schemes on YouTube

(Bloomberg) — The Bitcoin scam that hackers deployed while breaking into the Twitter Inc. accounts of political leaders and business titans last week closely resembles similar schemes used previously on…

Twitter announces broad crackdown on QAnon accounts and content

Twitter announced a broad crackdown on accounts and content related to the QAnon conspiracy theory on Tuesday, citing its policies against “behavior that has the potential to lead to offline…

Twitter Doesn’t Need Web 3.0 to Solve Its Identity Problem

Preston Byrne, a columnist for CoinDesk’s Opinion section, is a partner in Anderson Kill’s Technology, Media and Distributed Systems Group. He advises software, internet and fintech companies. His biweekly column,…

After the Twitter Hack, We Need a User-Owned Internet More Than Ever

CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass., that focuses on public blockchains. He is also the co-founder of Coin…

Twitter Hack Hits Obama, Biden, Musk in Bitcoin Scam

(Bloomberg) — The Twitter accounts of some of the most prominent U.S. political and business leaders, from Barack Obama and Joe Biden to Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett, were hacked…