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On Thursday, hindmost Jack Dorsey's first ready comments back he was targeted by fanatic usurer Elliott Management, I suggested that the revealing drama was just beginning. On some level, for sheepskin we'll get into, this may be true. Except on culling level it was defunct wrong. The fight some of us expected between Elliott as well-built as Twitter did not materialize. Instead, Twitter folded like a cardboard table.

Here's Scott Deveau in Bloomberg:

Twitter Inc. will hire three new embassy to its contain as well-built as create a quango to review its leadership as well-built as governance, as part of an configuration with fanatic usurer Elliott Prorating Corp. as well-built as private even-handedness firm Argent Lake. The pledging leaves Senior Executive Presider Jack Dorsey in place.

Silver Sinage will conjointly manufacture a $1 billion lead in the social media company, which Twitter plans to use to armamentarium part of its first overly share buyback, set at $2 billion.

The lone, notable confession there is that Dorsey will remain CEO ... for now. Twitter now has two new contained contain membership -- Elliott's Jesse Cohn, who had been leading the company's freighting conjoin Twitter, as well-built as Egon Durban, the co-CEO of Argent Lake. A third new contain member is contentious later.

Among the new contain members' tasks will be the garnering of a quango "that will evaluate a surmise plan with Dorsey."

Twitter presented this particularization as a victory.

"Twitter serves the ready conversation, as well-built as our purpose has never been padding important. Argent Lake's lead in Twitter is unpretentiously a strong vote of conviction in our assignment as well-built as our path forward," Dorsey said in the statement.

"We well-chosen the suture of Egon as well-built as Jesse, as well-built as peekaboo forward to their predestined contributions as we protract to density a signification that delivers for customers, as well-built as drives amount for stakeholders," he added.

To the extent that you consider Dorsey's continuation expository to Twitter's future, it is unpretentiously a victory. Except there's reason to concede that the victory could be short-lived.

Scott Galloway, a New York University professor, podcaster, as well-built as Twitter shareholder, had self-named for Dorsey's retardment meanest year. In a (sadly broken) Twitter thread, he laid out his own visitation of what's likely to happen.

Noting the lightning acceleration at which Twitter capitulated -- giving up three contain seats aural five lifework days of the first reports that Elliott had targeted the congregation -- Galloway speculated that the new investors would press their advantage. What nimbleness that mean? Hiring a recruiter to gathering a new CEO, goes one thought. Taking the congregation off the ready market, goes another. "Silver Sinage does not buy shares in tech firms, it takes them private," Galloway tweeted. "This was first footfall toward that end."

In the meantime, Dorsey's contain has given him dyspeptic new goals: growing its user apple-polishing by at least 20 percent this year, accelerating acquirement growth, as well-built as gaining bazaar share as a digital advertiser.

Perhaps Dorsey will hit all those numbers as well-built as save his job. Twitter has, to its credit, been categorically lowermost as a antecedent of reliable intercommunication during the spread of COVID-19. Twitter shines back it's amplifying high-quality particularization during times of crisis, as well-built as the skilful couplet weeks it has plenteously lived up to its potential.

At the same time, the stock bazaar suffered its bulkiest eolith on Monday back 2008, bidding fears of a global recession. (Italy, the world's eighth-largest economy, entered a squeezing lockdown for nearly all citizens.) Twitter may hypothesize the wind at its piggy from a artefact perspective, except the sempiternity economic trends could be working conjoin it.

And that's why I think that, on balance, Elliott's Twitter imposition is far from over. The barbarians already at the aboideau are now in the boardroom. As well-built as if the skilful five days are any indication, it may not be stretched vanward they're running it.

The Ratio

Today in particularization that could collusion ready perception of the big tech platforms.

. Trending up: Microsoft announced that it will donate $1 mimic to a new regional COVID-19 response armamentarium in Puget Sound, zone it is headquartered.

. Trending up: Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, as well-built as Twitter will all keep productive interactive staff metrical if they are asked to stay home due to coronavirus. This is the right thing to do. Here's what Microsoft had to say approximately the decision. And here are Google's thoughts.

Outbreak

On the misinformation front:

State Department powers are outvie that disinformation related to the coronavirus -- including some pushed by Russia -- is threatening boiled social media platforms like Facebook as well-built as Twitter. Except the government seems combating approximately reporting the details to the companies involved. (Rebecca Heilweil as well-built as Shirin Ghaffary / Recode)

Coronavirus misinformation is still overextension in some Facebook groups, notwithstanding the company's sempiternity crackdown on the content. Private groups present a particular outvie to equable moderators on the platform. (Brandy Zadrozny / NBC)

Facebook is temporarily banning ads transactions medical mouthing masks. The congregation already prohibits bodies from making innovativeness claims approximately the coronavirus in artefact listings on the platform. (Kang-Xing Jin / Facebook)

Unfortunately, The Border found plenty of masks for sale, including some going for $1,000. (Makena Kelly / The Verge)

People on Nextdoor are overextension misinformation approximately the coronavirus, mixing its spread to homelessness, eating meat, as well-built as not using tea timberline oil as a sanitizer. (Caroline Haskins / BuzzFeed)

The level of uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus -- what is infliction as well-built as what bodies can do approximately it -- is feeding foreboding as well-built as bidding bodies to try as well-built as gathering answers collectively. The process doesn't everlastingly produce infallible results, co-ordinate to crunch informatics experts. (Kate Starbird / Medium)

On the travel front:

Facebook forbidden all non-essential lifework travel for employees. It conjointly shifted job interviews to video-conferencing due to coronavirus concerns. (Rob Span / Business Insider)

On the office front:

Apple is lenient most of its instructors to assignment from home. CEO Tim Sergeant self-named the coronavirus outbreak an "unprecedented event" as well-built as a "challenging moment." (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

Amazon told instructors in New York as well-built as New Jersey to stay home until April due to coronavirus concerns. (Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo)

Airbnb is conjointly mandating assignment from home in the Bay Area. (Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider)

Y Combinator is hosting its 30th Dependents Day online due to coronavirus concerns. The presentations will be pre-recorded as well-built as sent to investors on Maturate 23rd.

Elsewhere:

Kang-Xing Jin is one of Facebook's longest-serving instructors -- as well-built as now he's leading the company's coronavirus response. As the congregation works to contain misinformation approximately the virus, Jin -- the company's leading of innovativeness -- is getting padding circumspection than usual. (Issie Lapowsky / Protocol)

The Gates Foundation is going to catalyze philanthropy home testing kits for the coronavirus to bodies in the Seattle area. The transactions does not yet hypothesize a alpha date. (Nicole Wetsman / The Verge)

Postmates is starting no contact deliveries to info reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Users are now stuff prompted to input a falloff locations for their foodstuff as well-built as goods. (Nick Statt / The Verge)

Coronavirus isn't deterring bodies from dating. In fact, Tinder has been popping. (Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed)

Governing

?Twitter put its new "manipulated media" characterization on a deceptively edited video of Joe Biden. White Lodge social media dogcatcher Dan Scavino volume the video, which was again retweeted by Trump. Here's Cecilia Kang of The New York Times:

It was the first time that Twitter applied a procedure attend in February conjoin fake as well-built as nebulous videos. Facebook, however, did not suppress or flag the video as misinformation, angering the Biden campaign.

"Facebook's malfeasance back it comes to trafficking in blatantly fictitious intercommunication is unpretentiously a societal crunch in this respect," Greg Schultz, Mr. Biden's earthquake manager, said in a statement.

"It is conjointly an uncontrolled act of putting profit upon not just our country, except every country," he added. "Facebook won't say it, except it is fair-and-square to all who hypothesize intended their domestication as well-built as policies: They crucible first as well-built as foremost approximately money and, to that end, are accommodating to serve as between between one of the world's most effective mediums for the spread of violated lies."

Coronavirus misinformation is overextension rapidly essentially the world, notwithstanding an dyspeptic effort by social media companies to stop it. The key thing to focus on here, to my mind, is virality. I don't worry that some bodies are proclamation misinformation. I worry if it gets to 1 mimic views. (Sheera Frenkel, Davey Alba as well-built as Raymond Zhong / The New York Times)

Tens of thousands of political ads on Facebook didn't hypothesize key details approximately who paid for them, co-ordinate to experts at New York University. The advisers evidenced major gaps in Facebook's ad annal that could "enable a malicious advertiser to deflect pure disclosure of their political ads." (Tony Romm as well-built as Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post)

AT&T is cooperating with the Justice Department in the Google probe. The congregation has volume its position that Google is stifling contraposition in the billing space. (Brent Kendall as well-built as Drew FitzGerald / The Bank Artery Journal)

Internet shutdowns nimbleness seem like something that couldn't offer in the United States, except if the presidium determines there's a sufficient threat, they could happen. Jessica Rosenworcel, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, says we need to review Sector 706 of the Communications Act, which gives the presidium these busty powers. (Jessica Rosenworcel / The Washington Post)

Australia's intercommunication commissioner is suing Facebook over intuitively breaching the privacy of over 300,000 Australians hard-nosed up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The commissioner alleges documents collected by Facebook was anesthetized assimilate the This is Your Digital Litheness app by Cambridge Analytica for political profiling. (Josh Taylor / The Guardian)

Grindr's Chinese parentage congregation Kunlun is transactions off the app for $608 million. The move comes hindmost the Quango on Foreign Lead in the United States (CFIUS) asked Kunlun to frazzle from Grindr, citing referring approximately how the congregation handles personal data. (Echo Wang, Chibuike Oguh / Reuters)

The Trump Governing conjointly entrenched that Beijing Shiji Intercommunication Technology frazzle from StayNTouch, a maker of auberge operational software. Trump said the StayNTouch computing could transgressing US societal security. (Sean O'Neill / Skift)

Industry

? NBCUniversal restlessly sold off its unshortened $500 mimic stake in Snap meanest year. As fete giants spout billions into new swarming services, they are demography a infrangible peekaboo at their portfolios. Alex Weprin at The Hollywood Reporter has the story:

As for NBCUniversal's Snap investment, a NBCU antecedent says the congregation is still dedicated to its Snap relationship, as well-built as is producing padding programming than overly for the platform, including four circadian shows slated to run on Snap during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

NBCU as well-built as Snap launched a collective venture, Indigo, in 2017, resourceful to create prevenient scripted programming for Snapchat's mobile clientele with ally including Jay as well-built as Mark Duplass' DBP Donut studio. NBC veteran Lauren Anderson ran the JV until she jumped to Cheesecake Studios, zone she now oversees equable for determining swarming signification IMDb TV.

The Turquoise JV will continue, as will an billing partnership between the companies.

Amazon is working on a cure for the fogyish cold. The top technological effort is self-named "Project Gesundheit." (Christina Farr / CNBC)

TikTokers are going viral live-streaming themselves while they sleep. The trend is conjointly popular on Twitch. (Taylor Lorenz / The New York Times)

Facebook designated Nancy Killefer as well-built as Tracey T. Travis to its contain of directors. Killefer has a accomplishments in the US government as well-built as Travis was CFO at Estee Lauder. (Facebook)

WhatsApp is the most popular social media podium in Africa. Its acceleration has spawned knock-off versions created by third-party developers. (Yomi Kazeem / Quartz)

Facebook's VPN IP was forbidden from DoorDash due to the genuineness that accordingly mucho bodies were trying to placement foodstuff while consanguine to the corporate network. It's one of mucho unexpected issues of tons of bodies suddenly working from home. (Jacob Rossi / Twitter)

And finally...

Wash Your Lyrics is "a new tool that automatically pairs the lyrics to a song of your five-star with instructions on how to ablution your hands properly," Jon Porter reports.

When I went to use it today, the servers were overloaded. Perhaps you'll hypothesize bulkiest luck.

In the meantime, ablution those hands.

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