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Last week, I asked, “What should be forbidden on Twitter?” You responded with many recommendations for the social-media platform as Elon Musk attempts to purchase it and take it private.x
Michael sympathizes with the status quo:
I am married
Sometimes, it feels like everyone on the internet thinks they’ve been shadowbanned. Republican politicians have been accusing Twitter of shadowbanning—that is, quietly suppressing their activity on the site—since at least 2018, when for a brief period, the service stopped autofilling the usernames of Representatives Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and Matt Gaetz, as well as other prominent Republicans, in its search bar. Black Lives Matter activists have been accusing TikTok of shadowbanning since 2020, when, at the height of the George
The billionaire family of Brooklyn Beckham’s wife Nicola Peltz has been criticised for spending $3.5million (£2.7m) on the couple’s lavish wedding in Palm Beach, Florida this weekend.
The newlyweds said ‘I do’ on a stage garlanded with flowers and plants in a huge marquee at the Peltz $103m ocean-side family estate, with the bride’s parents – financier Nelson and his wife Claudia – footing the astronomical bill.
However many people took to Twitter to express their opinions on the excessive
General Stanley McChrystal 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
Nach Stanley McChrystals neuem Buch zu urteilen, bleibt er blind für seinen Fehler, eine Strategie angeordnet zu haben, die seine Soldaten in Afghanistan weder verstehen noch ausführen konnten.
Risiko: Ein Benutzerhandbuch, von Stanley McChrystal und Anna Butrico (Pinguin, 368 Seiten, $30)
ichn 1950 ging General MacArthur ein enormes strategisches Risiko ein, das den Verlauf des Koreakrieges änderte, indem er Marines im Rücken der nordkoreanischen Soldaten landete und sie zum
