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Twitter Inc suspended an account tracking its owner Elon Musk's private jet in real-time, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account 's operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker". The suspension comes just a month after Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, said his commitment to free speech extended to not banning the account. ElonJet, operated by 20-year-old university student Jack Sweeney, had tracked the movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain before the suspension. Sweeney's other accounts were also suspended at the time of reporting. Twitter and Sweeney did not respond to Reuters' requests for comments. Twitter briefly reinstated the "bot", or automated, account before again suspending it, after saying sharing "live location information" was a violation of its policy. Musk had said in a tweet in November that his c...

X has launched a government- based ID verification system for premium users, in an effort to prevent impersonation and provide “prioritized support.” The platform has already partnered with Israel- based Au10tix for identity verification solutions. The company's support page indicates that the ID verification will be available in “numerous countries,” except the European Union, the European Economic Area (EEA), and the United Kingdom. X has also claimed that it intends to use the system to age-gate some content based on the age derived from the ID. “X currently focuses on account authentication to prevent impersonation and may explore additional measures, such as ensuring users have access to age-appropriate content and protecting against spam and malicious account s, to maintain the integrity of the platform and safeguard Health y conversations,” it said. Read: TikTok fined 345 million euros over handling of children's data in Eur...

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protective feature that lets users block other accounts , owner Elon Musk said on Friday in another controversial move for the company he bought last year. The block function on X allows a user to restrict specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their posts or following them. "Block is going to be deleted as a 'feature', except for DMs," Musk said in a post on the platform, referring to direct messages. He said X would retain the mute function, which screens a user from seeing specified accounts but, unlike blocking, does not alert the other account to the action. The billionaire owner has described himself as a free speech absolutist, but some critics have said his approach is irresponsible. Researchers have found an increase in hate speech and antisemitic content on the platform since he took over, and some governments have accused the company of not doing enough to moderate its content. ...

TOKYO: Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) warned on Thursday of a fake account for its top currency diplomat Masato Kanda on social media X, formerly known as Twitter, as the market fears a currency intervention amid the yen's drop to a one-month-low. In a rare English-language post on X, the ministry said "Please don't follow the impersonation account and/or comment on the post", saying such an X account purportedly belonging to Kanda or his staff did not exist. "MOF is currently requesting that X (formerly Twitter) suspends the impersonation account . Thank you for your cooperation" it said, in its official account . The social media platform suspended the fake account within hours. The account , under the name "Masato Kanda" and the user ID "@Jgghkj_", appeared to have been created in March and made only five posts to date, including three pictures of Kanda posted on March 1. The latest post, made at 3:56 pm (0656 GMT...

Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year. "ElonJet has arrived to Threads!" read Sweeney's first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning. ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain. In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account , with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account 's operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker". Meta-owned Threads, posing a direct challenge to Twitter, garnered millions of users in hours, including prominent figures such as Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Democratic US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as it seeks to take advantage of ...

The Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann was forced to delete her viral Instagram account after receiving death threats, it has been revealed. Julia Faustyna is now in the United States, according to an Instagram post by her spokesperson, psychic medium and private investigator Dr Fia Johansson. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Woman who claims to be Maddie McCann to go to court to order DNA test. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Johansson revealed in an Instagram post over the weekend that Faustyna had received death threats and had to be removed from her home in Poland for her own safety. The threats started on Snapchat, Johansson said, before spreading to other social media platforms including Instagram and Facebook. Faustyna faced “a severe and credible death threat ” including a “price on her head”. Authorities have taken the threat “very seriously”, Johansson said, and Faustyna was immediately removed from her hometown. Another story reveal...

Thousands of Australians are among the five million people whose personal data has been stolen by cyber criminals in the last five years, a new study has found. Cyber crooks were able to use bots to steal 26.6 million usernames and passwords since 2018, with the sensitive data of 10,000 Australians impacted, according to the NordVPN study. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: How to safely store and manage your passwords. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Among the logins were details for 720,000 Google accounts , 654,000 Microsoft profiles and 647,000 Facebook logins , which are then sold on a bot market for an average price of $6 each. The study, which analysed three major bot markets — Genesis, the Russian market and 2Easy — also found Netflix, Paypal, Amazon, Instagram and Apple Store logins listed for sale. Experts say criminals use data-harvesting bot malware that steals logins together with cookies and device configuration information — the combination of which he...

A NSW woman says she has been unable to sleep after being scammed out of more than $40,000 and left fighting against the odds to get it back. Thuy Le has two young children, aged six and 11, and a husband living with Parkinson’s disease who is unable to work. For 14 years she has operated Sparkle Nails and Beauty in Wollongong, but on November 24 last year her world was turned upside down. A devastated Le told 7NEWS.com.au her nightmare started when she received a call from the ‘husband’ of a supposed customer claiming he had accidentally paid her $60 on behalf of his wife, and wanted a refund. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Checking her Commonwealth Bank account and noticing a discrepancy, Le obliged, transferring the cash into an account supplied by the caller. Despite not handing over any personal information, numbers or passwords, several more withdrawals were made from Le’s account into the same one supplied by the caller, who she now beli...

A former employee of Twitter claims that Twitter engineers still have access to an internal program called "privilege mode" that lets them tweet from any account . It was previously known as "GodMode." Read US targets Google's online ad Business monopoly in latest Big Tech lawsuit The program is always accessible on a production laptop. A simple change from "FALSE" to "TRUE" is required from the engineer's end, claimed the employee. Considering the sensitivity of this code, there is always a warning that says, "THINK BEFORE YOU DO THIS" There has already been a complaint filed against Twitter with the FTC over this matter. FTC is reportedly investigating this matter and interviewing former Twitter employees Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-engineers-can-still-use-godmode-to-tweet-as-any-account-TheFOXposts-11462.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Cate...