Welcome to the Tech Mem Bride Home for Wednesday, December 1st, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter bands private sharing, but there's some confusion about what that actually means. A big executive

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and I've got the specs, and we get some raw data to answer the question are foldable phones actually

a thing or not?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Twitter is banning the sharing of private images and videos without consent, with

exceptions made for newsworthiness, public figures, and the like, but Twitter will remove content that users report as violating

this new rule, quoting and gadget.

The Twitter Safety Team wrote in a blog post that although anyone can be impacted by

private media being shared it

quote can have a disproportionate effect on women activists dissidents and

members of minority communities end quote if someone reports a photo or video

that violates the policy Twitter will remove the media and take action based on its enforcement options.

Those include down-ranking the visibility of the tweet in replies and search results or telling the person who posted it to delete the

tweet. Twitter also has the right to permanently suspend users who violate the

policy. There are some exceptions to the policy. It doesn't cover private media

of public figures or others if a photo or video and the

text in the tweet quote are shared in the public interest or add value to public

discourse end quote in other words if it'sworthy, Twitter may allow the media to remain

on the platform. The company will consider factors such as whether the images are available

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