Twitter gave advertisers the phone numbers users had specified for two-factor authentication, and advertisers used them to identify the users.

The US cheats would-be visitors by making them pay to schedule a visa appointment, and only then showing them that no appointments are available and that they can't get a refund for the useless payment.

The article describes various other absurd restrictions that the author encountered when he sought to go to the US to join a boat race to Cuba. But proving that those restrictions are absurd is a subtler question. To show that "Pay to find out that you can't have an appointment" is viciously absurd is open-and-shut.

Putin's fake news machine is buying special promotion on Twitter.

Musk has made his support for Putin clear enough already.

A Jewish member of the Labour Party objects to Labour's propensity to brand Jews as "antisemitic."

*Groups Launch World's First-Ever Climate Lawsuit Against a Commercial Bank [for funding fossil fuel projects].*