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April fools? The Twitter blue check apocalypse that wasn’t

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Without any weight behind the symbol of authentication that the blue check mark provided, any Twitter user could hypothetically pay to impersonate a public figure or company.
In the days leading up to Saturday’s supposed blue check apocalypse, legacy verified accounts from LeBron James to Monica Lewinsky tweeted out against the new policy.
Major news organizations, including the New York Times, Washington Post and CNN, announced this week that they would not pay for staff members to maintain a blue check status. The White House sent an email to staffers informing them that it would not pay for Twitter Blue.
Former vice president of global commerce and media at Twitter, Nathan Hubbard, tweeted on Friday that phasing out verification was a “risky” policy change and that, “If most OG blue checks stop tweeting in protest of being asked to pay to create the content that Twitter lives by…Twitter dies.”
After previously tweeting that “paid account social media will be the only social media that matters,” Musk was noticeably silent Saturday on the lack of discernible change in the app’s interface, only retweeting an advertisement first posted by Tesla’s company account and an old photograph of himself with the caption, “Me after 1 day of not eating sugar.”
Twitter’s communications office was unreachable for comment.
And as of noon on April Fools’ Day, the previously verified blue checks remained.

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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

April 2, 2023
Wasn’t consulted on appointing V-P’s personal staff to house committees: Jairam Ramesh

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New Delhi: After Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar, attached eight officers from his office to various standing committees and other parliamentary committees under the jurisdiction of the Upper House, senior Congrese leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday categorically denied that he was consulted on the matter.
Ramesh is the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment, Forests & Climate Change.
“The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha has said that the decision to have his personal staff attached to various parliamentary committees was taken after consultations with the respective chairpersons. I chair a standing committee and I can categorically say that I wasn’t consulted at all,” Ramesh said.
Speaking at an event earlier on Thursday, Dhankar had said that the appointments were made after taking feedback from the committee members and chairpersons, adding that to optimise the functioning of the committees, he has appointed the best IAS and IFS officers.
The Congress has termed the appointment of Dhankhar’s personal staff to the Rajya Sabha committees as “unprecedented”, saying that it shows the lack of confidence in the existing staff.
Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh said, “Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar appoints his staff on standing committees… Yes, this is unprecedented. But the explanation given is also quite inappropriate. Doesn’t it reflect Rajya Sabha Chairman’s lack of confidence in the existing staff of the RS secretariat?”
“VP is Chairperson of Council of States Ex-officio. He is not a Member of House like Vice Chairperson or Panel of Vice Chairpersons. How can he appoint personal staff on Parliamentary Standing Committees? Would this not tantamount to institutional subversion,” Congress’ Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari tweeted.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 9, 2023
‘Why wasn’t he arrested then..?’ Junaid’s cousin reacts to police’s ‘cow smuggler’ claims

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Bharatpur: Relative of Junaid, one of the two men who were allegedly abducted and charred to death in Haryana, on Saturday reacted to the Rajasthan Police’s “cow smuggler” claims.
Earlier, IG, Bharatpur Range has said that Junaid has five cases pertaining to cow smuggling against him, to which Junaid’s cousin Ismail said, “If he [Jumail] was a cow smuggler then why police didn’t arrest him?”
“When there were cases on Junaid, then why was he not caught earlier? Now when he is dead, they are saying that there was a case [of cow smuggling]. He was residing here but the police never came,” Junaid’s cousin said.
“These people are only hooligans, who do such work. They have just worn the cloak of cow vigilantes, but they do hooliganism because this is their only business,” he added.
Earlier on Thursday, two skeletons were found inside a charred SUV in the Loharu area of the Bhiwani district.
Later investigations, revealed that the skeletons were of two Muslim men– Junaid and Nasir– from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur, who were allegedly abducted.
Rajasthan Police have made one arrest in the case.
The police said that the accused was arrested on Friday after his involvement in the crime was found.

“Several teams were formed to nab the people named in the FIR. A person named Rinku Saini was caught and interrogated. He has been arrested after his involvement in the incident was found. We’ll seek his police remand to gather more information,” IG, Bharatpur Range said.
Reacting to the development, Junaid’s cousin thanked Rajasthan Police for the first arrest in the case.
He also said that the government has promised Rs 15 lakh, a government job and a speedy arrest in the case along with strict action against the accused persons
Asked about the deceased family members, he said that Junaid is survived by his wife, brother, sister-in-law, and six children.
“His brother is unemployed and has six children, Junaid was the sole breadwinner for them too,” he added.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday condemned the incident and assured strict action against the perpetrators.
Rajasthan Police on Friday said special teams had been formed to arrest suspects based on an FIR filed by a family in Rajasthan alleging that the deceased had been kidnapped from the state’s Bharatpur district.
Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 18, 2023