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2022 - 12 - 19

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Twitter deletes new policy banning 'free promotion' of rival social ... (USA TODAY)

Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.

Mastodon has grown rapidly as an alternative for Twitter users who are unhappy with Musk’s overhaul of Twitter since he bought the company [for $44 billion in late October](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/04/25/elon-musk-twitter-ownership-deal/7437519001/) and began restoring accounts that ran afoul of the previous Twitter leadership's rules against hateful conduct and other harms. “I won’t say I didn’t anticipate it,” Lorenz said in a phone interview early Sunday with The Associated Press. Lorenz said she and another Post technology reporter were researching an article concerning Musk. [in a Sunday tweet.](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832?s=20&t=KrG8scRJKIq7OPfQ7cMFRg) He followed up with a Twitter poll asking if he should step down from the head of Twitter, which closed Monday [with 57.5% of 17.5 million votes saying "yes." Many of those accounts were restored following an online poll by Musk. He then took aim at journalists who were writing about the jet-tracking account, which can still be found on other sites including Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social, alleging that they were broadcasting “basically assassination coordinates.” ](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/12/19/elon-musk-polls-twitter-users-whether-he-should-stay-charge/10924009002/) [the @ElonJet controversy](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/12/17/elon-musk-elonjet-creator-after-twitter-banned-his-account/10911967002/). Won’t happen again," Musk said "Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. Musk apologized for the policy change after it received backlash online. [and Mastodon.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/11/16/twitter-alternative-mastodon-social-network/8303119001/)

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Mastodon blood found on 13000-year-old stone tool uncovered in ... (Globalnews.ca)

Archaeologists have confirmed extinct mastodon, or woolly mammoth, blood residue was in fact on a stone tool found from an old Niagara Escarpment site.

it was a decision based on the fact that these tools were going to go out of our hands and into a permanent repository.” (ASI), told Global News that evidence of interactions between mastadons and humans in Ontario is not new to the scientific community, but evidence of a butchering is. “That began a process of …

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Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other ... (The Verge)

Twitter will no longer let users include links to certain banned social networks, including Instagram, Facebook, and Mastodon, in their profiles or tweets.

Musk claims the journalists “doxxed” his location and later had Twitter implement a policy that bans “live location information” as well as “links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes.” While [Musk later reinstated most of the banned accounts](https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/17/23513620/elon-musk-suspended-journalists-twitter-reinstated-elonjet) after polling users on whether Twitter should lift their suspensions, he briefly suspended The Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz [for “prior doxxing action](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604482428281753601?s=20&t=zaWBeHPASkUELlZ8_gk9dA).” [Jack Dorsey replied](https://twitter.com/jack/status/1604554032831287298?s=20&t=GP2gyM09qaPQDQyoKKAVTQ) “why?” [Dorsey recently donated around $245,000](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/12/15/jack-dorsey-gives-decentralized-social-network-nostr-14-btc-in-funding/) to the development of the decentralized social network Nostr, which is included in Twitter’s ban. Trying to tweet out a link to several Mastodon servers or the site itself results in an error message, stating: “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful.” We don’t know whether Twitter will eventually disable links from the banned platforms in a similar manner, but at this time of writing, it seems users are still able to post links from these networks. Twitter says it will remove any tweets that contain violations of the policy and could temporarily suspend users with links to banned social platforms in their profiles. We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. Despite all of this, Twitter is still fine with the paid promotion of these banned platforms (although this feature

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