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Musk says prepare for follower drop
San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said that the micro-blogging platform has started “purging” a lot of spam and scam accounts, so the users might see a “count drop” in…
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Microsoft rolls out new feature to MFA app, prevents spam attacks
San Francisco: Microsoft has rolled out a new feature to its multi-factor authentication (MFA) app, Microsoft Authenticator, to prevent spam attacks. According to ZDNet, the company has rolled out ‘number matching’ in…
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Google pilot to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam launched
San Francisco: Google has finally launched a new pilot programme to keep political campaign emails out of spam folders for Gmail users. Gmail users could start seeing more campaign fundraising emails in…
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Twitter merges misinformation, spam prevention teams amid battle over bots
New Delhi: As the Twitter-Elon Musk legal battle gets murkier, the micro-blogging platform is reportedly merging its spam and misinformation teams to better tackle the spread of fake and harmful posts on…
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Questions raised on Elon Musk’s bot claims on Twitter
New Delhi: Leading bot researchers have questioned Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claims about the huge presence of fake/spamming accounts on Twitter, as the online tool his team used to count bots on…
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Twitter claims it suspends 1 mn spam users a day
San Francisco: As Elon Musk threatened to scrap the $44 billion Twitter acquisition deal over spam and fake accounts, the microblogging platform has revealed that it is suspending more than 1 million…
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Twitter has very ‘bot-friendly’ rules, says Elon Musk
New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday once again raised the presence of fake/spam accounts or ‘bots’ on Twitter, saying the micro-blogging platform has ‘very bot-friendly’ rules. Musk has put the…