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NBC News:
Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation — Mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday battered the teams primarily responsible for keeping the platform free of misinformation, potentially hobbling the company's capabilities four days before the end of voting …
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The Verge:
Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted — About half of Twitter's 7,500 employees are now gone, with teams focused on trust and safety issues hit the hardest. — Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter's 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted …
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Platformer:
Twitter, cut in half — I. The Snap — The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday. — For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes of hearing something directly from their new owner. Instead, they had heard only from Elon Musk's intermediaries, and even then usually not directly.
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Washington Post:
Twitter layoffs gutted election information teams days before midterms — With half of the company gone, political campaigns are gripped with anxiety over how to address election misinformation and potential threats — Devastating cuts to Twitter's workforce on Friday …
New York Times:
Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter's Staff — The layoffs hit across many divisions, including the engineering and machine learning units, the teams that manage content moderation, and the sales and advertising departments. — SAN FRANCISCO …
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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Twitter Recommends Ye as Top Follow on ‘The Jews’ as Company Does Mass Layoffs — “The Jews” and “#IStandWithKyrie” are trending on Elon Musk's Twitter. — Jason Koebler — “The Jews” is trending on Twitter, and its algorithm has selected Ye as a “Top” person to follow …
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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
What Twitter's Shake-Up Could Mean: Midterm Misinformation Run Amok
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NPR, The Guardian and PolitiFact
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Twitter's Advertisers Pull Back as Layoffs Sweep Through Company
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New York Times:
Trump, Biden and Obama Will Campaign in Pennsylvania in Midterm Finale — As the midterms come to a close, the establishment politics of the two most recent Democratic presidents will meet the disruptive force of the last Republican one, with control of Congress at stake.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
Why Republican Insiders Think the G.O.P. Is Poised for a Blowout — The consensus among pollsters and consultants is this Tuesday's election will be a “bloodbath” for the Democratic Party. — On Wednesday afternoon, I spoke with a leading Republican political consultant about the Senate campaign in Georgia.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
New York Democrats are bracing for stunning Election Day losses, and they already have a fall guy — Democratic officials and strategists in New York tell CNN they are bracing for what could be stunning losses in the governor's race and in contests for as many as four US House seats largely in the suburbs.
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City & State New York, Breitbart, HotAir, National Review and Frontpage Mag
Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida election crimes unit sends out last-minute felons-removal list, causes confusion — James Call John KennedyUSA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA — Lists containing the names of hundreds of voters have been sent to county elections supervisors around Florida by Gov. Ron DeSantis' new Office …
CNN:
House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents — The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, released a statement Friday giving former President Donald Trump more time to turn over documents it subpoenaed …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Former CEOs of MoviePass and Parent Company Charged in Securities Fraud Scheme — An indictment was unsealed today in Miami charging two Florida men for their roles in a scheme to defraud investors of Helios & Matheson Analytics Inc. (HMNY), a publicly traded Florida- and New York-based company …
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Dylan Byers / Puck:
Can Licht Make the Cuts? — A brutal $100 million financial engineering effort begins at CNN. — When Chris Licht became chairman and chief executive of CNN, back in May, his boss David Zaslav asked him to conduct a six-month review of the 4,500-person global news business.
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Asmita Pant / cnbctv18.com:
Some of world's biggest brands have quietly paused ads on Twitter — The advertising giant Interpublic Group has also reportedly recommended that IPG Media Brands agencies' clients suspend all their paid advertising on Twitter for at least a week. — General Motors last Friday temporarily …
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Digby's Hullabaloo, The Hill, Breitbart, NBC Boston and The Post Millennial
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Oregon 2022: Independent Candidates' Support Melts As Democrat Tina Kotek Leads Republican Christine Drazan by Four for Governor — Home Polls Oregon 2022: Independent Candidates' Support Melts As Democrat Tina Kotek Leads Republican Christine Drazan by Four for Governor
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Ohio 2022: Vance Extends Lead Over Ryan for US Senate
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Politico, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, PolitiFact and Insider
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Scoop: House Republicans cry politics over IRS outreach — House Republicans are threatening to investigate the Treasury Department, if they win back the majority, over the mid-October timing of 9 million letters the Internal Revenue Service sent out reminding Americans of their eligibility for certain tax credits.
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Washington Times and Political Wire
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Evictions are piling up across the U.S. as Covid-era protections end and rents climb — WASHINGTON — On a recent Friday morning, more than 100 renters facing eviction filed through Arizona Judge Anna Huberman's court in what's becoming a typical day for her, as a wave of evictions hits Phoenix …
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The Colorado Sun and MLive.com
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis's Year as a Schoolteacher — At a private school 20 years ago, the future Florida governor was a popular history teacher and coach. But some students were taken aback by his comments on the Civil War and abortion. — Reporting from Rome, Ga.
Jeff Coltin / City & State New York:
Is gender bias hurting Kathy Hochul? — The first woman governor of New York is trailing among men, and political consultants said this is a very familiar “likeability” issue. — Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Hillary Clinton campaigned this week in New York City.
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Politico
Jason Willick / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's Israeli victory shows how not to stop Trump — “Israel is a speck on the map of the world,” Walter Russell Mead writes in his new book, “The Arc of a Covenant,” but “it occupies a continent in the American mind.” The Jewish state is a crucible for global contests over nationalism …
Laura Packard / Op-Eds:
Say Goodbye to Healthcare if Republicans Win — Campaign commercials are jamming the airwaves, and everyone is claiming to be a health care champion. Republicans' votes say otherwise. — My name is Laura Packard and the Affordable Care Act saved my life.
Washington Post:
Investigators search for pricey gifts to Trump from foreign leaders — Golf clubs, diamond earrings and a soccer ball from Putin are among the gifts that House Oversight has asked the National Archives to find. — Congressional investigators are looking for dozens of pricey mementos gifted …
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
Democracy Is Not on the Ballot … Dear Reader (Including those of you who dropped your lattes), — You're all losing your frickin' minds. — Okay, maybe not you, specifically, but a lot of people are. — Look, I think my record over the last seven years or so of arguing that politics in general …
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
How Zeldin's tough talk on crime in New York could lead to more of it — As a former New Yorker, I understand crime's hold over an electorate's emotions. In 1990, the city endured 2,245 homicides. One of the slayings took place at a phone booth a half block from the Jane Street apartment I would move into six months later.
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City & State New York, New York Times and National Review
Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
Women under 25 could be the MVPs of the midterms — Thousands protest outside Supreme Court after abortion draft ruling leak — Polling for the upcoming midterm election has been teetering back and forth between which party will win the most seats, but the prevailing sentiment is that Democrats …
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Daily Kos and The Guardian
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Psaki, DOJ fight social-media speech suit subpoena — Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki and the Justice Department are fighting an effort to force her to testify in a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of violating the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies …
Jonathan M. Ladd / Mischiefs of Faction:
These Two Big Unknowns Make the 2022 Midterms Unusually Unpredictable — Here are a few things to keep in mind about the next week's midterm elections. — Let me start with a little preface. The Democrats could do fairly badly on Tuesday yet still better than presidential parties have historically performed in similar situations.
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