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Former US President Donald Trump will embrace cryptocurrency if he is re-elected. The ex ‘Apprentice’ host - who is vying for another term in the Oval Office after being impeached twice - previously dubbed the payment method as “based on thin air” but has now changed his opinion. The 78-year-old businessman announced that he wanted to make the United States into a “bitcoin superpower” and a “capital of the planet for cryptocurrency” while addressing a crowd at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Trump promised to create a “strategic reserve” of the currency already held by the government. He...
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Paris Hilton and CNN are among those impacted by a hack on TikTok. The 43-year-old socialite and the international news network were among some of the high-profile accounts affected by a breach on the video-sharing app. TikTok told the BBC that a “very limited” array of accounts were hacked and that they were making efforts to restore everyone’s accounts. The company - which is owned by the China-based tech firm ByteDance - did not divulge any further information about the attack, such as how it took place. A rep for the tech giant added that Paris’ account - which boasts more than 10 million ...
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Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins have been reinstated on X. The two controversial figures were banned from the microblogging site - formerly known as Twitter - for sharing hateful content but have now been given their posting privileges back by the site’s new owner, Elon Musk. Katie was removed back in 2018, while Tommy was axed two years later and is among a string of other prohibited posters - like former US President Donald Trump, 77, Andrew Tate, 36, and Kanye West, 46 - allowed back on the site by the 52-year-old billionaire when he took over the site for $44 billion after he branded hims...
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Elon Musk says the block button is being axed on Twitter. The 52-year-old billionaire – who has rebranded the company to X – revealed he wants to get rid of the block button, which allows users to hide other people's posts from their feed and restrict contact with certain accounts. Elon - who has introduced a number of controversial changes since he bought the company for $44 billion - said: "It makes no sense. Block is going to be deleted as a 'feature', except for DMs." Instead of blocking, users will be able to still ‘mute’ users, which stops them from appearing on feeds and notifications t...
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The Taliban have started paying for blue ticks on Twitter. The two members ruling party of Afghanistan have signed up for Twitter Blue - a paid-for model of the social media giant with sets users back $8 a month - therefore giving them verification amid their decision to roll back hard won rights for women and other groups in society. Hedayatullah Hedayat - who boasts 187,000 followers and is the head of the group’s department for “access to information” - is one of the many who have given himself the online status symbol, which used to be given out by the site to figures and organisations the...
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Elon Musk is considering only allowing blue ticks to vote in his Twitter polls. The 51-year-old billionaire - who completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in late October - recently asked his followers if he should step down as the CEO of the social media giant to an answer of 57 per cent of voters saying yes, a result that he has not yet commented on. Elon has suggested he will be making sure only those who are verified users - who now must subscribe to Twitter Blue, a paid-for tier - will be able to participate in polls in the future. After getting the suggestion from a Twitter user,...
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President Donald Trump has been given his Twitter account back. The 76-year-old ex head of state was has his ability to post on the microblogging site restored following a poll by held by Elon Musk - who took over running the site following his $44 billion takeover late last month - that asked users if he should get his privileges returned after he was banned in January 2021. After it was decided 52 to 48 per cent, the 51-year-old entrepreneur wrote on the site: "The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.” Trump - who is yet to post again - was removed from the soci...
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Alex Jones will not be given his Twitter account back, says Elon Musk. The 51-year-old tech entrepreneur will not be giving the 48-year-old conspiracy theorist the privilege to post again after he was sued for libel and ordered to fork out $1.44 billion by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting after he claimed the deaths of 26 people - 20 children and six adults - were a hoax. Elon - whose ten-day-old son Nevada Alexander Musk died in 2002 - spoke of his own loss, explaining he had “no mercy” for someone “who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame,”...
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Jon Voight has warned the US is "in danger of a Third World War". The ‘Midnight Cowboy’ star has been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and has criticised those who have blamed the poor performance of the Republican party in the recent mid-term elections on the former 'Apprentice' star. The 83-year-old actor said in a video he shared on Twitter: “My fellow Americans, we are in danger of a Third World War. We, as a family of one truth, must hear this now. Look at this lie, this deceit that continues day after day. “Can you not all see this lie in the soul? Wake up, wake up because if we don't...
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Twitter will ban unmarked parody accounts, says Elon Musk. The 51-year-old billionaire - who finalised his $44 billion purchase of the social media giant late last month - says that users who do not flag that their accounts are spoofs without warning. This comes after numerous accounts changed their names to ‘Elon Musk’ to poke fun at the SpaceX founder and his approach of running the site since he took it over, which has included laying off large swathes of the workforce and asking people via polls how much he should charge for Twitter Blue, the premium tier of the website. On Sunday (06.11.2...
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