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Also Read: MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor: Bitcoin Now At Inflection Point advertisement The “Kill the Boer!” chant was referred to white farmers. The latest New York Times report quoted a professor of saying that the chant does not literally mean to promote violence against individual farmers. It added that Malema called Musk an illiterate when asked about the tweet from Musk on open genocide calls. “Why must I educate Elon Musk? He looks like an illiterate. The only thing that protects him is his white skin,” Malema reportedly said. Elon Musk Calls For Boycotting The New York Times In response to the news article from the publication, Musk called for cancelling the publication, accusing it of supporting the calls for genocide. “The New York Times actually has the nerve to support calls for genocide! If ever there was a time to cancel that publication, it is now.” Recommended Articles ...

Shiba Inu had the greatest number of fake followers at 10.26% or 80,000 accounts, while Avalanche and Polygon followed suit with 8.14% and 7.58% of fake accounts respectively. Despite changes introduced by Twitter management since Elon Musk’s takeover, the issue around fake followers remains a persistent problem. As many as 10% of the followers of accounts belonging to crypto influencers and companies are fake, new data from dappGambl has revealed. In April 2023, Musk introduced Twitter Blue — an $8 monthly subscription for verification — to increase the platform’s revenue while making it financially inviable for bots and fake accounts to operate. However, months later, dappGambl’s investigation found that up to 10% of followers from the most follow ed crypto accounts are fake. When it comes to the official accounts of cryptocurrency tokens and ecosystems, Shiba Inu (SHIB) had the highest number of fake followers at 10.26% or 80,000 accounts, while Avalanche (AVAX) ranked second wit...

The group of scammers have recently taken over accounts belonging to the founder of Pudgy Penguins, the CTO of OpenAI and even crypto hater Peter Schiff. Over the past few weeks, a group of scammers has hijacked more than eight Twitter accounts belonging to prominent figures in the crypto space to promote phishing scams. The group has stolen almost $1 million worth of crypto so far, according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT. In a June 9 Twitter thread, ZachXBT outlined that he had uncovered several wallets “linked on chain” that are connected to phishing scams promoted by the recently hacked accounts . “While the majority of these attacks were the result of a SIM Swap it seems other accounts were potentially stolen with a [Twitter admin] panel,” ZachXBT noted. Over the past few weeks we have seen 8+ account takeovers connected to the same group of scammers as evident by how their addresses are linked on-chain. I hope @TwitterSafety investigates each attack closely as they have resulted...

The New York Times has reported that Twitter Executive Esther Crawford was among another 200 layoffs at the company. Crawford became well known for a photo that went viral in November showing her sleeping in the office to improve production. Specifically, Crawford was Twitter ’s director of product management at the platform. Moreover, she was the executive that oversaw the development and implementation of the Twitter Blue subscription service. The worst take you could have from watching me go all-in on Twitter 2.0 is that my optimism or hard work was a mistake. Those who jeer & mock are necessarily on the sidelines and not in the arena. I’m deeply proud of the team for building through so much noise & chaos. 💙 — Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) February 27, 2023 Twitter Exec. Among Additional Firings Since Elon Musk took over the social media platform, layoffs have sadly become standard practice. Now, former Twitter executi...