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Twitter follow bots cut off from API, as accounts disabled for spreading misinformation from Iran and elsewhere

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ManageFlitter, Statusbrew, and Crowdfire have had their access to the Twitter API revoked for allegedly helping users abuse the service, aggressively and repeatedly following and unfollowing large numbers of other accounts – a tactic frequently employed by Twitter spammers.

Meanwhile, Twitter and Facebook share details of the accounts they have shut down after finding they were spreading misinformation in the run-up to the US midterm elections.

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Wireless feature disabled on pacemaker to stop hackers from assassinating Cheney

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It would be a safe bet to guess that former Vice President Dick Cheney agreed to be interviewed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in order to help sell his new book, Heart, but some of the details from, and comments on, that interview are worth repeating.
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A walkout ends, and strikers find a changed world – The Guardian

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AP National Writer= ELKHART, Ind. (AP) â By 10:30 a.m., the lot at Disabled American Veterans Post 19 is nearly full, and a table spread with potato salad and Port-a-Pit chicken beckons.

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A Walkout Ends, and Strikers Find a Changed World – ABC News

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By 10:30 a.m., the lot at Disabled American Veterans Post 19 is nearly full, and a table spread with potato salad and Port-a-Pit chicken beckons. The only thing missing is a banner, mutters one of the workers inside the rental hall to another …

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