Twitter Temporarily Closes Offices, Suspends Employees’ Access

On Thursday, Twitter reportedly temporarily closed its office buildings and suspended employees’ access badges until Monday, November 21, as Twitter CEO Elon Musk and his team evaluate the situation. “Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended,” Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer announced on Twitter. “No details given as to why.” “We’re hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company,” she continued. “Also, they’re still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.” Schiffer added that employees have been

MTG Calls For Audit Of US Aid ‘Given In Any Form’ To Ukraine

During a press conference on Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for an audit on the more than $60 billion in aid sent to Ukraine by the Biden administration. “Is American peoples’ taxpayer dollars going to fund aid in Ukraine, but yet it’s really funding something else that’s happening, maybe lining up Democrat donors’ pockets? Was that helping Democrat campaigns and candidates get elected?” she said. “$8.9 billion is for humanitarian assistance, including emergency food and assistance for Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in the region and for other countries directly impacted by the conflict,” she continued. “Again, what other countries

DeSantis Dismisses Rumors About ‘Civil War Brewing’ Between Him And Trump

On Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) dismissed rumors that there was a “civil war brewing” between himself and former President Donald Trump (R) over the Republican party’s 2024 presidential nomination. DeSantis made the comments in response to a question during a press conference about Florida’s recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian. “We just finished this election, okay?” DeSantis said. “People just need to chill out a little bit on some of this stuff. I mean, seriously, we just ran an election. We have this Georgia runoff coming, which is very important for Republicans to win that Georgia runoff.” “I mean, I know

FBI Is ‘Extremely Concerned’ About TikTok’s Potential Threats To National Security

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On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that he is “extremely concerned” about TikTok’s operations in the United States. “We do have national security concerns, obviously from the FBI’s end, about TikTok,” Wray told the House Homeland Security Committee in a hearing. “They include the possibility that the Chinese government could use it to control data collection on millions of users, or control the recommendation algorithm which could be used for influence operations if they so choose, or to control software on millions of devices.” While TikTok claims it doesn’t store U.S. user data in China, the Chinese government

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