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After spending the past few months shaking up Twitter internally, Elon Musk is now looking to the future.

Just days after announcing a new CEO, Twitter is reportedly acquiring tech talent hiring platform Laskie, Bloomberg first reported on Tuesday.

Laskie was co-created by serial Twitter user and startup founder Chris Bakke, who previously sold hiring startup Interviewed to Indeed six years ago.

Neither Laskie nor Twitter confirmed the acquisition or announced the terms of the deal. And Bakke, who I always see on my Twitter feed, has been suspiciously offline since early May.

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Its a surprising move for Twitter, which recently cut upward of 3,500 employees and sold its pricey office furniture, and is still, after all that, being sued by at least six companies for not paying its bills.

But perhaps the acquisition is a sign the company is on the mend. Musk previously announced Linda Yaccarino, an ex-NBCUniversal executive, will take on the role of CEO and he will act as the chief technology officer.

After acquiring Twitter against his will, Musk said his aspirations for the social media company involved becoming a super app, a one-stop shop for every digital interaction from messaging to buying groceries. Its a goal Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has long aspired to achieve and something many companies in China already function as today

Laskie, which matches job seekers with prospective employers, may bring Twitter a step closer to its super app goal and allow it to compete with LinkedIn as a professional social networking platform.

However, Twitter doesnt have a great track record with maintaining its acquisitions. The incredibly popular six-second video platform Vine was acquired by Twitter in 2012 for around $30 million and subsequently shut down four years later.

Twitter at the time said it wanted to reallocate resources toward live streaming instead of Vine, but then shut down its livestreaming platform Periscope in 2021, citing unsustainable levels of maintenance for the product. Periscope survived only six years under Twitters management.

This is Twitters first acquisition under Musk, but Im not sure if Twitter will be able to catch up with Facebook and Amazon, both of which are far closer to super app status than the bird website is.

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A photo of the wedding card of a BJP leader's daughter who is marrying a Muslim man has gone viral on social media with several people, including Hindutva hardliners, trolling the former MLA and the saffron party alleging ''double standards''.

The wedding is slated to take place at a resort here on May 28.

People close to the leader, Yashpal Benam, said on condition of anonymity that his daughter studied at Lucknow University and was in a relationship with the man whom she is going to marry.

Benam is the chairman of the Pauri Municipal Corporation. He was earlier with the Congress and won as an independent from Pauri Assembly constituency in 2007.

Political leaders from both the BJP and the Congress have been invited to the wedding.

Several social media users slammed Benam, saying while the BJP talks about ''Love jihad'', its leader has failed to stop his daughter from marrying a Muslim man.

''The BJP-ruled states are making films like 'The Kerala Story' tax-free while here a BJP leader's daughter is marrying a Muslim man. These are double standards of the BJP and party workers will get demoralised,'' said a user on social networking site Facebook. ''Love jihad'' is a term often used by BJP leaders as well as right-wing activists to allege a ploy by Muslim men to lure Hindu women into religious conversion through marriage.

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Survey Discloses: 40% of Women Encounter or Observe Sexual Harassment on Social Media Platforms

Key Findings:

One out of every five women, accounting for 20.8%, has personally endured sexual harassment on various social media platforms. Approximately 39.7% of women have either experienced or witnessed sexual harassment online within the realm of social media. Among female social media users who encountered sexual harassment, a staggering 57% reported experiencing it on Facebook and Facebook Messenger. Regarding the nature of the harassment, 79% of affected women received unwelcome messages and/or sexual comments. An alarming 68.2% of the surveyed 3,000 women who actively use social media expressed dissatisfaction with social media companies efforts in safeguarding users.

Introduction & Survey Objectives

SellCell, a leading online mobile phone price comparison site, in collaboration with OnePoll, conducted a comprehensive survey to investigate the issue of online sexual harassment targeting women on social media platforms. The survey, administered to 3,000 women in the UK who actively engage with social media and related apps, aimed to gauge the prevalence of sexual harassment experiences among women and examine their perceptions regarding the protective measures taken by social media platforms.

Main Survey Results

(Please note that the questions and answers contain sensitive content)

Among the 3,000 UK women who responded to the survey and actively use social media, 40% confirmed they had either experienced or witnessed sexual harassment on social media platforms or apps. Out of the total respondents, 21% disclosed their personal experiences with sexual harassment on social media platforms or apps. Within this group, 57% reported that their encounters with sexual harassment occurred on Facebook or Facebook Messenger. Of those who experienced harassment, 79% received unsolicited sexual comments or messages. When confronted with sexual harassment on social media, 76% of women took action by blocking the offender or offenders. Approximately 32% of victims noted that the long-term effects of social media sexual harassment included feelings of violation and/or intimidation. Among the 2,342 respondents who had not experienced sexual harassment on social media, the majority (69%) attributed their safety to their careful selection process when choosing whom to follow or accept as friends. A significant 68.2% of the surveyed female social media users agreed that social media platforms do not invest enough effort in protecting individuals from online sexual harassment.

Summary of Survey Questions

SellCell and OnePoll posed the following questions to 3,000 UK women who actively use social media, regarding their experiences with sexual harassment on social media platforms and applications. Content advisory: Some survey questions and responses contain sensitive and/or sexual language.

Question 1) Which of the following statements best describes your experience with sexual harassment through a social media platform or app?

The survey inquired 3,000 UK women who actively use social media, Which of the following statements best describes your experience with sexual harassment through a social media platform or app? Among the respondents, 39.7% (1,190) acknowledged either personal experiences with sexual harassment or witnessing such incidents on social media platforms or apps. Moreover, 20.8% (624) of the total respondents admitted to personally enduring sexual harassment on social platforms or applications, leaving the remaining 79.2% who have not experienced such harassment.

Question 2) (If you have never personally experienced sexual harassment through a social media platform or application) Why do you think you have avoided personally experiencing sexual harassment on social media? [Select all that apply]

In response to this question, 69% (1,605) of the 2,342 women who have not personally experienced sexual harassment on social media attributed their safety to their meticulousness in selecting whom they follow or accept friend requests from. Additionally, 42% of respondents keep their social media accounts private to avoid harassment, while 41% refrain from sharing much about themselves due to a lack of trust in platform security. Furthermore, 32% use social media solely for staying updated with news and activities rather than socializing, and 5% limit their social media use to work or business purposes.

Question 3) (If you have personally experienced sexual harassment through a social media platform or application) On which social media platforms/apps have you personally experienced sexual harassment? [Select all that apply]

Among the 624 women who reported personal experiences with sexual harassment on social media, 57% identified Facebook and/or Facebook Messenger as the platforms or apps where they were most likely to face harassment. Additionally, 37% of these women cited Instagram as the source, while 26% attributed their experiences to dating apps like Tinder or Hinge. Interestingly, 4% of the respondents fell victim to online sexual harassment on LinkedIn, a professional networking platform.

Question 4) (If you have personally experienced sexual harassment through a social media platform or application) What types of sexual harassment have you personally experienced on social media platforms/apps? [Select all that apply]

An overwhelming majority of 79% of those who encountered sexual harassment on social media reported unwelcome sexual comments or messages as the primary form of harassment.

Furthermore, 59% of victims received friend requests or invitations from strangers, leading to discomfort.

48% of those targeted stated that the offender sent them pornographic photos or videos.

9% of victims faced threats of sexual violence as a form of online social media sexual harassment.

Question 5) (If you have personally experienced sexual harassment through a social media platform or application) When you personally experienced sexual harassment on social media, did you report this to anyone/take any action? [Select all that apply]

Of the 624 women who confirmed being sexually harassed on social media, 76% took action by blocking the individuals responsible for the harassment. 42% of the respondents reported the offender to the respective social media app or platform. 5% escalated the matter to the police, while regrettably, 11% did not take any action, knowing that the platform, app, or police would not respond to the issue.

Question 6) (If you have personally experienced sexual harassment through a social media platform or application) Which, if any, long-term effects have you experienced as a result of the online sexual harassment you encountered? [Select all that apply]

Of the women who confirmed experiencing sexual harassment in question one, 32% expressed feeling violated and/or intimidated due to their experiences. 21% stated that the sexual harassment caused them to doubt their personal appearance, while 19% reported suffering from anxiety as a consequence. The sexual harassment negatively impacted the current intimate relationships of 10% of victims, and 3% reported detrimental effects on their careers.

Question 7) (All respondents) Which of the following statements best describes your experience with sexual harassment through a social media platform or app?

An overwhelming majority of 68.2% (2,045 women) among the 3,000 respondents expressed dissatisfaction with social media companies actions against sexual harassment on their platforms or applications. Only 7.8% believed that social media companies are doing enough to combat sexual harassment, while 24.0% of respondents remained uncertain about the adequacy of these companies measures to protect female users from harassment.

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May 19 (Reuters) - Iran on Friday executed three men it said were implicated in the deaths of three members of its security forces during last years anti-government demonstrations, drawing protests at home and abroad.

Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi were executed in the central city of Isfahan, the judiciary said in a statement on Twitter, adding they had "martyred" two members of the Basij paramilitary force and a police officer on Nov. 16.

Amnesty International said the men's fast-tracked trial was flawed and used "torture-tainted 'confessions'".

Iran denies that confessions are extracted under torture.

Friday's executions brought to at least seven the number of protesters hanged since the beginning of the nationwide protests that began last autumn and turned into one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

They were ignited by the death on Sept. 16 of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran's morality police.

In anticipation of their imminent execution, the three men on Wednesday appealed in a handwritten note for public support, saying, "Don't let them kill us".

"We need your help," said the note that went viral on social media, drawing local and international appeals to halt the executions, including from Washington.

Families and supporters held nightly vigils outside the Dastgerd prison in Isfahan in support of the three men who were being held inside. Street protests broke out in Isfahan, the capital Tehran and a few other cities after the executions were announced, according to videos posted on social media.

"We swear by our comrades' blood to be steadfast till the end," chanted protesters in Tehran, in a video which Reuters could not independently verify.

The European Union condemned the executions "in the strongest possible terms", a spokesperson said. Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, condemned the hangings as "reprehensible killings" and said on Twitter: "Australia stands with the people of Iran."

U.N. rights experts said in a statement they were "deeply alarmed" at continuing executions of Iran protesters.

State media broadcast videos of what were presented as the defendants' confessions, which Amnesty International said were extracted by torture.

"The shocking manner in which the trial and sentencing of these protesters was fast-tracked through Iran's judicial system amid the use of torture-tainted 'confessions', serious procedural flaws and a lack of evidence is another example of the Iranian authorities' brazen disregard for the rights to life and fair trial," Amnesty said in a report on Wednesday.

"Majid Kazemi said in an audio recording from prison that he was forced to make false self-incriminating statements after interrogators beat him, gave him electric shocks, subjected him to mock executions, and threatened to rape him, execute his brothers and harass his parents," said Amnesty.

The men were sentenced to death on the charge of "enmity against God" for the alleged possession of a firearm.

U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel, calling on Iran not to execute the three men, told reporters on Thursday that their execution would be an affront to human rights.

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An Iranian military commander on Friday threatened the US over the killing of Irans top general over three years ago, vowing to drive American forces out of the Middle East.

Iran has repeatedly vowed vengeance since a US airstrike killed General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January 2020.

Although the Americans martyred Haj Qassem Soleimani, they received the first blow and now are receiving the second blow, which is nothing but their gradual withdrawal from the region,Iranian general Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said on Friday.

The final blow has yet to come to them, Salami said, according to Irans semi-official Fars news agency.

Soleimani, the architect of Irans regional military activities, was killed in a US drone strike in neighboring Iraq. He is hailed as a national icon among supporters of Irans theocracy.

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in January also issued threats against the US during a ceremony marking three years since Soleimanis death.

There will be no relief for murderers and accomplices, Raisi said.

President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi holds up a photo of assassinated Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani as he addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, Sept. 21, 2022. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

Iran responded to the killing of Soleimani by launching a barrage of missiles at US bases in Iraq, causing dozens of brain concussion injuries but no deaths among US soldiers stationed there.

Iranian officials have repeatedly vowed to take further steps and imposed sanctions on individuals accused of taking part in the operation.

According to US officials, Iran has launched at least 80 attacks against US forces and locations in Iraq and Syria since January 2021. The vast majority of those have been in Syria.

In March, a suspected Iranian-linked drone attack killed a US contractor and wounded seven other Americans in northeast Syria. The US retaliated with airstrikes.

Soleimani, who led the elite Quds Force of Irans Revolutionary Guard, was credited with helping to arm, train, and lead armed groups across the region, including the Shiite militias in Iraq, fighters in Syria and Yemen, the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, and terror groups in the West Bank and Gaza.

The US held him responsible for the deaths of many of its soldiers in Iraq.

Agencies contributed to this report.

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