Alex Jones transferred millions from his InfoWars parent company to entities controlled by friends and family ahead of billion dollar damage awards in Sandy Hook cases, WaPo reports

Alex Jones. Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool WaPo reported Alex Jones transferred millions from InfoWars’ parent company ahead of its bankruptcy. The company signed promissory notes to entities owned by Jones’ friends and family. Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages related to lies he spread about Sandy Hook. A…

The Twitter Blue relaunch is on hold until the platform can sort out impersonation issues with ‘high confidence,’ Elon Musk says

Elon Musk’s Twitter account is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on April 26, 2022 in Paris, France. Chesnot/Getty Images Elon Musk says Twitter Blue’s relaunch is on hold until it can deal with impersonation issues. He said Twitter would need to safeguard against impersonation with “high confidence.” The new system will likely use…

Twitter is making DMs encrypted and adding video, voice chat, per Elon Musk

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, has been public about his desire to improve how the social network’s direct messages work. In a meeting with employees today, he spelled out exactly what that looks like. Framed by presentation slides titled “Twitter 2.0” at Twitter’s San Fransisco headquarters on Monday,…

Are at-home STD tests reliable?

Public health advocates are urging the federal government to greenlight at-home STD test kits, saying that could vastly multiply the number of Americans getting tested. “If we’re really serious about tackling the STD crisis, we have to get more people diagnosed,” says Dr. Amesh Adalja at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. Eric…