Gilead
Fig. 1. “Elon Musk shared a video of his entrance on his Twitter account.” Photograph attributed to Elon Musk, October 26, 2022, via the New York Post,[1] fair use.
“We are concerned these staff reductions impact Twitter’s ability to protect consumers’ information,” an [Federal Trade Commission (FTC)] official wrote to Twitter’s lawyers on Nov. 10 following an initial wave of layoffs, according to a copy of the letter viewed by the Journal.
The so-called demand letters were obtained by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, which published excerpts of them Tuesday in a staff report about the FTC’s investigation.
The letters indicate Twitter responded to the FTC, but that the agency as of late January felt the company was engaging in a “troubling pattern of ongoing delay” that raises “serious concerns about its compliance.”
“Protecting consumers’ privacy is exactly what the FTC is supposed to do,” said FTC spokesman Douglas Farrar. He said the agency is “conducting a rigorous investigation into Twitter’s compliance with a consent order that came into effect long before Mr. Musk purchased the company.”[2]
Naturally, now that Twitter is run by a white Christian nationalist, Republicans think the Federal Trade Commission is overstepping.[3]
Clare Duffy, “Twitter hit with one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk took over,” CNN, March 6, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/06/tech/twitter-website-down/index.html
Ryan Tracy, &ldqo;FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names,” Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-investigation-ftc-musk-documents-db6b179e
Right-wing militias
Police White supremacist gangs
Fig. 1. Photograph by Lorie Shaull, April 1, 2021, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Mark Belko, “Fitzgerald: County Police no longer ‘regularly scheduled for rounds’ Downtown as city moves to add more of its own officers,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 7, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2023/03/07/rich-fitzgerald-allegheny-county-police-downtown-pittsburgh-mayor-ed-gainey-pittsburgh-police/stories/202303070092
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. “Jake Angeli (Qanon Shaman), seen holding a Qanon sign at the intersection of Bell Rd and 75th Ave in Peoria, Arizona, on 2020 October 15.” Photography by TheUnseen011101 [pseud.], October 15, 2020, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Eric Lutz, “Tucker Carlson Used the January 6 Footage to Try and Gaslight America,” Vanity Fair, March 7, 2023, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/tucker-carlson-january-6-footage
Ukraine
Fig. 1. “Destroyed Russian military vehicles located on the main street Khreshchatyk are seen as part of the celebration of the Independence Day of Ukraine in Kyiv, August 24.” Photograph by Gleb Garanich for Reuters, August 24, 2022,[4] fair use.
Ishaan Tharoor, “Putin retreats deeper into his labyrinth,” Washington Post, March 7, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com//world/2023/03/07/putin-ukraine-war-talks-delusions/
So-called ‘ridesharing’
Bezzle
Fig. 1. “Clarkdale Classic Gas Station, Clarkdale, Arizona,” Photograph by Alan Levine, October 28, 2016, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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Laura Forman, “Uber Might Need to Stow Its Freight Train,” Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-might-need-to-stow-its-freight-train-1f22d291
- [1]Thomas Barrabi, “Elon Musk barges into Twitter HQ as deal nears: ‘Let that sink in,’” New York Post, October 26, 2022, https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/elon-musk-barges-into-twitter-headquarters-as-deal-nears/↩
- [2]Ryan Tracy, &ldqo;FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names,” Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-investigation-ftc-musk-documents-db6b179e↩
- [3]Ryan Tracy, &ldqo;FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names,” Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-investigation-ftc-musk-documents-db6b179e↩
- [4]Reuters, “Ukraine puts destroyed Russian tanks on display in Kyiv,” August 25, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/ukraine-puts-destroyed-russian-tanks-on-idUSRTSALV9Q↩