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Nick Cannon posts worrying Tweets after massive backlash

Nick Cannon, who was fired by ViacomCBS this week for making anti-Semitic comments on his podcast, posted troubling tweets early Friday morning. “I hurt a whole community and it hurt to the core, I thought it couldn’t get any worse,” Cannon tweeted. “Then I saw my own community turn against …

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Twitter hacking targeted 130 accounts, company says

Hackers attacked around 130 Twitter accounts in their unprecedented attack on some of the platform’s most visible users this week, the company revealed. The attackers were only able to take over a “small subset” of the targeted accounts, including those of Apple, Uber, Kanye West and Elon Musk, which used …

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Iran’s plan to execute 3 protesters sparks a backlash

Iranians Amirhossein Moradi, 26, Saeed Tamjidi, 28, and Mohamad Rajabi, 26, are seen in file photos provided by Amnesty International. All three men were sentenced to death in February 2020 for participating in anti-government protests in Iran in November of the previous year. International Amnesty Tehran – Several high-profile executions …

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Twitter stepped up search to complete top security job before hacking

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) had intensified its search for an information security chief in recent weeks, two people familiar with the effort told Reuters, before the high-profile account breach on Wednesday raised alarm about the platform’s security. The FBI’s San Francisco division is leading an investigation into Twitter’s hacking, …

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Nick Cannon officially apologizes for his anti-Semitic comments

Photo: Cindy Ord (fake pictures) Nick Cannon apologizes to his “Jewish brothers and sisters” for his controversial comments done on your podcast, Cannon class. The episode, which featured former Public Enemy member Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin, found Cannon discussing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Griffin was removed from Public Enemy in 1989 …

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