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Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, others return to Twitter after Musk buys Fox News’ Tucker Carlson was also suspended from the platform for endorsing the Babylon Bee tweet. video Elon Musk wants to end Twitter's 'ideological monopoly': Former Facebook analyst Former Facebook analyst Kara Frederick tells 'The Evening Edit' Musk needs 'clean house' at Twitter. Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, and others are now back on Twitter after  Tesla  CEO Elon Musk secured a $44 billion deal with the social media company.  Fox News’ Tucker Carlson got suspended for endorsing tweets from the Babylon Bee, which Twitter said violated its terms of service. Twitter locked The Babylon Bee last month after it accused the satirical site of violating its rules against "hateful conduct" over a joke naming U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine – a transgender woman – the site's "Man of the Year" for 2022.  The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon was notified on...

Special Forces Command soldiers try to block police escorts of Nabbanja. PHOTO/STEPHEN OTAGE   One of the police guards could be heard ranting as he, and colleagues, were lifted away and at one point dared one of the SFC guards for a fight. Special Forces Command (SFC) soldiers guarding the Saturday birthday party of First Son and UPDF Land Forces commander, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, at Cricket Oval in Kampala, on Saturday turned away police escorts of Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja from accessing VIP tents. Ms Nabbanja, who was invited as the chief guest, was ushered to the venue amid loud music and dancing, and accompanied by Members of Parliament. However, as she entered the venue heading towards the high-table, SFC soldiers blocked her four VVIP Protection guards from police, leading to a brief scuffle during which the army took the day. The standoff between personnel from the two sister security forces largely evaded public attention as most of the euphoria at the birthday ...

Twitter’s board has accepted an offer from billionaire Elon Musk to buy the social media company and take it private, the company announced Monday. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a statement included in the press release announcing the $44 billion deal. “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.” Here’s the full announcement from Twitter: Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk, for $54.20 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $44 billion. Upon completion of...

Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday confirmed that it was the victim of a security breach in March after the LAPSUS$ mercenary gang managed to gain access to its networks. The acknowledgment came after investigative journalist Brian Krebs shared internal chats belonging to the core members of the group indicating that LAPSUS$ breached the company several times in March prior to the arrest of its seven members. T-Mobile, in a statement, said that the incident occurred "several weeks ago, with the "bad actor" using stolen credentials to access internal systems. "The systems accessed contained no customer or government information or other similarly sensitive information, and we have no evidence that the intruder was able to obtain anything of value," it added. The VPN credentials for initial access are said to have been obtained from illicit websites like Russian Market with the goal of gaining control of T-Mobile employee accounts, ultimately allowing the threat ...

  Any deal on the matter is far from conclusive Facebook   Twitter   Comments   Print   Email By  Bradford Betz   FOXBusiness video House Republicans ask Twitter to preserve Elon Musk's takeover bid records Liz Peek and Kara Frederick weigh in on the war on free speech on 'Fox Business Tonight.' Initially hostile to the idea of Tesla CEO  Elon Musk  taking over  Twitter , the company is reportedly warming up to the idea after the billionaire said last week he had secured the necessary $43 billion in funding. Sources familiar with the matter told  The Wall Street Journal  that Twitter is taking another look at the deal and may be closer to negotiating, given how quickly Musk was able to secure financing.  FILE: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin.   (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File / AP Newsroom) Still, any final deal is far from conclusive...

Israel says the move came after a rocket was fired from southern Lebanon, landing in an open area across the border. An Israeli artillery gun fires a shell into Lebanon on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border [File: Gil Eliyahu/Reuters]. Beirut, Lebanon – Israeli forces have fired dozens of artillery shells into southern Lebanon, after a rocket was launched over the border from Lebanon. An Israeli military spokesperson tweeted that artillery forces bombarded open areas in southern Lebanon where the rocket came from, as well as an infrastructural target. The Lebanese Army said in a statement that Israeli forces had launched 50 artillery shells into several Lebanese towns near the southern border with Israel. Additionally, according to Lebanese media, UN peacekeeping forces (UNIFIL) in the country’s south sounded sirens along several of its positions near the border, while the Lebanese Army deployed troops. UNIFIL Head of Mission Commander Aroldo Lázaro called for “calm ...

Uganda's Principal Judge, Dr. Flavian Zeija, has survived an assassination plot by unknown gunmen along Masaka-Kampala Road. Judiciary Spokesperson Jameson Kareman says the incident occurred on Saturday evening at about 7:00 pm when unknown gunmen shot at Zeija’s convoy. 📸; NBS.