The Daily Populous

Sunday December 4th, 2022 evening edition

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Twitter's former safety chief warns Musk is moving fast and "breaking things".

Musk has rapidly transformed Twitter's previous approach to what is and isn't allowed.

This week, Twitter quietly updated its online rulebook to say it was no longer enforcing policies against misleading claims about COVID-19.

Meanwhile Musk laid off half the company's staff and issued an ultimatum asking remaining employees to commit to a new "hardcore" Twitter or resign.

"In place of that perhaps overly slow culture, Mr. Musk is introducing a culture of moving quickly and, unfortunately, breaking things as a result," Roth said.

Musk disputed CCDH's report as "utterly false" and said hate speech impressions are less than 0.1% of what's seen on Twitter.

Roth said he and former colleagues are "heartbroken" to see what's happening to their efforts to keep Twitter users safe. »

A power outage in North Carolina is being investigated as a 'criminal occurrence,' authorities say

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An extensive power outage affecting about 40,000 customers in North Carolina’s Moore County is being investigated as a “criminal occurrence” after crews found signs of potential vandalism at several locations, authorities said.

Several communities across the county began experiencing power outages just after 7 p.m. Saturday, the Moore County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the FBI are responding to the incident, according to Hudson. »

Donald Trump's Call to 'Terminate' Constitution Sparks Fury

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Donald Trump has sparked a furious backlash after he called for the "termination" of parts of the Constitution to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Rep. Ritchie Torres tweeted: "Donald Trump wants to suspend the Constitution in the name of protecting the Constitution, just like he perpetrated election fraud in the name of preventing election fraud.".

Donald Trump wants to suspend the Constitution in the name of protecting the Constitution, just like he perpetrated election fraud in the name of preventing election fraud. »

Trump Calls For 'Termination' Of Constitution Over Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' Leak

Authored by huffpost.com

Trump suggested that the contents of the leak warranted a complete election re-do or simply a coup in which he would be installed as president.

Twitter’s new overlord, the billionaire Elon Musk, had teased and hyped the thread with popcorn emojis in the hours before, writing, “This will be awesome.”.

At the time, Biden was still just a presidential candidate, and someone had asked Twitter to remove several tweets. »

Rail workers say quality-of-life concerns not resolved under deal imposed by Congress

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Workers and their unions say the deal didn’t do enough to address their quality-of-life concerns and didn’t add any sick days.

READ MORE: Why Congress is intervening in a labor dispute between railway companies and freight workers.

The rail unions say they weren’t able to get more concessions out of the railroads because the big companies knew Congress would intervene. »