US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire (www.semafor.com)
The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Friday calling for a ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza....
Satellite companies are restricting Gaza images | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
Key providers of satellite photographs to news organizations are reducing their access.
Kenyan businesses are dropping the world’s favorite mobile money service (www.semafor.com)
Thought this was interesting. Partially because of raised prices, but apparently mainly because of tax enforcement....
An online map for LGBTQ personal stories becomes a rare window into Gaza (www.semafor.com)
“My biggest regret is not kissing this one guy. He died two days back,” reads one anonymous story from Gaza shared on Queering The Map, a website where LGBTQ people can document important memories from their lives pinned to any location around the world. “He died in the bombing. I think a big part of me died too. And soon...
The legend of Patrice Lumumba, the CIA, and the Congo (www.semafor.com)
Not really news in any way, but I thought it was an interesting short read, even if it’s also publicity for the book the interviewee wrote.
Inside Iran’s influence operation | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
THE SCOOP...
DOJ sues SpaceX for not hiring asylum seekers and refugees (www.semafor.com)
‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign | Semafor - Analysis (www.semafor.com)
A Signal chat offers a rare glimpse inside the DeSantis campaign.
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin token to launch Monday (www.semafor.com)
The token has been controversial in Silicon Valley for its ambitious and unorthodox approach to trying to solve two vexing problems: Online identity authentication and income inequality....
How Paramount buried a Vice documentary on Ron DeSantis at Guantanamo Bay | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
New details in the mystery of a missing documentary.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads (www.semafor.com)
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
