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TechCrunch Daily Crunch

X is giving blue checks to influential users

TechCrunch Daily Crunch

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Tech News, News, Technology

3.849 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Ford delays new EVs once more, showing why legacy automakers need to adopt a startup mentality; TikTok says it generated $14.7B for US small businesses last year; X warns that you might lose followers as it does another bot sweep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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dot com code tech news. X is giving blue checks to influential users which is

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what blue checks were supposed to be all alone.

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I'm Iran Shake and listeners, you're all Blue Checks to me, which means you get the added

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perk of your Daily Crunch for Thursday, starting with three big headlines.

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So Ford announced Thursday that it's delaying the production of two electric vehicles, a next-generation

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EV pickup and a three row EV.

1:13.2

The pair are now slated to arrive in 2026 and 2027, delays of one and two years respectively.

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In their place, the automaker is going to be introducing hybrids across its US lineup.

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Ford CEO has been telegraphing the delays for months.

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Last fall it postponed 12 billion dollars in planned investments.

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Then on an earnings call in February, CEO Jim Farley said,

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hybrids will play an increasingly important role in our industry's transition

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