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Nov 21, 2022

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Welcome to the Joy-Free World Cup. DOHA, Qatar — For six long years, the Qatar World Cup has dominated Gianni Infantino's thoughts. There had been months upon months of meticulous planning, delicate negotiation, seemingly incessant troubleshooting. Infantino, the president of… (Rory Smith / The New York Times)

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Gianni Infantino is unhappy. Budweiser is unhappy. The coaches are unhappy. The players are unhappy. Welcome to the 2022 World Cup, everyone!

nytimes.comWelcome to the Joy-Free World CupSoccer’s biggest championship is supposed to be a celebration. So why is everyone so unhappy?

Elon Musk Embraces Twitter's Radical Fact-Checking Experiment. Tweets from Elon Musk often inspire disagreement, but some recent pushback has come from a surprising source— Twitter 's own experimental defenses against misleading claims, cherry-picked facts, and outright falsehoods. Several posts by the… (Carl Miller / WIRED)

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Buried underneath all of the froth happening on Twitter at the moment is an experiment more exciting than anything I’ve seen tried by a tech giant. I explain what’s going on for @WIRED

wired.comElon Musk Embraces Twitter’s Radical Fact-Checking ExperimentThe project allows users to suggest short notes that add missing context to viral tweets. It could change how social platforms operate.

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Inside Bob Iger's return to Disney: A senior executive's outreach to the former chief followed months of complaints to the board about CEO Bob Chapek. Bob Iger is returning to Disney as CEO, ending the rocky tenure of his successor, Bob Chapek. More executive departures are expected in the next 24 hours. Iger's contract is for two years and finding a new successor will be a priority. The Walt… (Claire Atkinson / Business Insider)

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NEW: Numerous key creative and business executives were threatening to quit Disney unless Chapek was replaced. businessinsider.com/inside-return-… via @BusinessInsider

businessinsider.comInside Bob Iger’s return to Disney: A senior executive’s outreach to the former chief followed months of complaints to the board about CEO …Top Disney leaders told the company’s board over the past few months that they were considering leaving the company if CEO Bob Chapek remained in the role. Now former chief Bob Iger has taken the reins again.

FTX Owes Its Biggest Unsecured Creditor More Than $226 Million. Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt crypto empire owes its 50 biggest unsecured creditors a total of $3.1 billion, new court papers show, with a pair of customers owed more than $200 million each. FTX-linked entities owe their single biggest unsecured… (Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg)

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt crypto empire owes FTX’s 50 biggest unsecured creditors a total of $3.1 billion, new court papers show, with a pair of customers owed more than $200 million each.

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England, Other Teams Drop Plans to Wear Anti-Discrimination Armbands at Qatar World Cup. DOHA, Qatar—Hours before their opening games of the 2022 World Cup, England and Wales abandoned plans to wear rainbow armbands after FIFA threatened to sanction players for breaking tournament rules. In one of the early flash points of the… (Jonathan Clegg / Wall Street Journal)