🤖 Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots

Plus: U.S. Women's and Men's Soccer Teams Will Receive Equal Pay, Dollar Vs. Euro: The world's top 2 currencies are nearing parity, and more…

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Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots. Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user. When he tweets, he gets a lot of spammy replies, many of which seem to be written by… (Matt Levine / Bloomberg)

Tim O'Brien @TimOBrien

"I think it is important to be clear here that Musk is lying."

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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U.S. Women's and Men's Soccer Teams Will Receive Equal Pay Under New Labor Deals. The United States Soccer Federation has reached landmark collective-bargaining agreements with its men's and women's national teams that align the teams' pay and create a unique mechanism to share prize money from their respective World Cup… (Rachel Bachman / Wall Street Journal)

Rachel Bachman @Bachscore

NEW: The US women’s and US men’s soccer teams have reached labor deals with the US Soccer Federation that give them equal pay. The deals include the world’s first agreement to share prize money from the men’s and women’s World Cups. wsj.com/articles/us-so…

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Dollar Vs. Euro: The world's top 2 currencies are nearing parity. The dollar and euro are on the verge of being equal for the first time since 2002. A top economist told Insider that parity could be reached within 'a month or so.' The euro has lost nearly 14% against the dollar in the past year and is far below… (Phil Rosen / Business Insider)

Phil Rosen @philrosenn

1/ Dollar Vs. Euro: The world's two top currencies are on the verge of parity for the first time in 20 years -- and it could happen within a month. Here's what to know. Hot off the press for @BusinessInsider...

markets.businessinsider.comThe dollar and euro are on the verge of parity for the first time in 20 years — and it could happen within a month. Here’s what to know.″[Parity] is an indicator of lack of faith in the euro area economy going forward, which is not surprising,” an economist told Insider.

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All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now. In the latest commercial from the virtual currency exchange Crypto.com, titled “Bravery Is a Process,” the star basketball player Joel Embiid walks through Philadelphia while Bill Self, his former college coach, lends the narration. (Tiffany Hsu / The New York Times)

Tara Golshan @taragolshan

“Unfortunately I don’t think we’d have anything to add as we have no idea how cryptocurrency works (even after having it explained to us repeatedly), don’t own it, and don’t follow its market,” he said. “We just set out to make a funny commercial!”

nytimes.comAll Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal NowCrypto boosters such as Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow have been criticized for hyping virtual currency without highlighting the risks.

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The 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list: Meet the next generation of Silicon Valley. In the tenth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC highlights private companies that grew through the ups and downs of the pandemic and are poised to meet increasing economic and consumer challenges. All told, these firms have raised a half-trillion… (CNBC.com staff / CNBC)

Rob Lalka @RobLalka

Take some time to look over the list, not just to see if your favorite ventures made the list (looking at you @deenashakir, @anayshah, @Alex_Lazarow…well done!) but also to get a feel for emerging trends in logistics, blockchain, digital health, and more.

cnbc.comThe 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list: Meet the next generation of Silicon ValleyCNBC reveals the 2022 Disruptor 50 list, start-ups that innovated through pandemic and are poised to meet increasing economic and consumer challenges.

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