🔴 Twitter was readying an OnlyFans competitor this year, until a red team intervened

Plus: Google Says Trump's Truth Social Must Scrub Violent Content to Join Play Store, Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees, and more…

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How Twitter's child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor. In the spring of 2022, Twitter considered making a radical change to the platform. After years of quietly allowing adult content on the service, the company would monetize it. The proposal: give adult content creators the ability to begin selling… (Zoe Schiffer via The Verge)

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NEW: Twitter was readying an OnlyFans competitor this year, until a red team intervened and said it would be irresponsible. The reason: Twitter’s ongoing struggle to remove child sexual exploitation material from the platform theverge.com/23327809/twitt… @ZoeSchiffer + me

theverge.comHow Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor“Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale.”

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Google Says Trump's Truth Social Must Scrub Violent Content to Join Play Store. The social media app is not available on Google’s app store, and the former president’s company and Google are publicly disagreeing about why. (Nico Grant / The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

Google said it would not distribute Truth Social, the social media platform founded by Donald Trump, on its Play store until the app removed content that incites violence.

nyti.msGoogle Says Trump’s Truth Social Must Scrub Violent Content to Join Play StoreThe social media app is not available on Google’s app store, and the former president’s company and Google are publicly disagreeing about why.

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Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees. Snap is planning to lay off approximately 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees, according to people familiar with the matter. The layoffs, which Snap has been planning for the past several weeks, will begin on Wednesday and hit some… (Alex Heath / The Verge)

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News: Snap is planning to lay off roughly 20% of its more than 6,400 employees starting tomorrow

theverge.comSnap plans to lay off 20 percent of employeesSnap’s stock price has declined nearly 80 percent this year.

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Twitter is launching it's 'Close Friends' feature Circle globally. Twitter is launching its Circle feature — which lets you post a tweet to a select set of people — globally. The company started testing this Instagram “Close Friends”-like feature in limited beta in May, and now it's… (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

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tcrn.chTwitter launching ‘Close Friends’ feature Circle globally – TechCrunchTwitter users can add up to 150 people to their Circle, but can build only one. There’s no limit to who you can include in a Circle, so sure, add Harry Styles.

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Netflix names Snapchat execs as its first advertising leaders. Netflix named Snapchat ad executives to lead the development of its global ad strategy and the teams to run its ads business as the streaming giant makes its first foray into advertising. Jeremi Gorman will join the streaming giant as president… (Parker Herren / Ad Age)

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👀 Snap ad execs Jeremi Gorman and Peter Naylor are headed to Netflix to run its ads business adage.com/article/media/…

adage.comNetflix names Snapchat execs as its first advertising leadersJeremi Gorman and Peter Naylor join streaming giant Netflix to develop global ad strategy and lead sales team.

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