Elon Musk accuses Apple of trying to sabotage Twitter. But after his visit with Apple’s C.E.O., Tim Cook, things are … good? Then, the New York Times reporter Paul Mozur on the tactics Chinese protesters are deploying to avoid the most sophisticated censorship apparatus in the world.

Plus: S.B.F. says it’s been a “bad month.”

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• Elon Musk musk-apple-twitter.html">accused Apple of threatening to pull Twitter from its App Store and tweeted about Apple’s “secret 30 percent tax” on developers for in-app purchases. The company has again delayed the launch of Twitter Blue as it seeks a way to avoid paying Apple’s 30 percent fee for the service.
• Later, Musk said the musk-apple-misunderstanding.html">“misunderstanding” with Apple had been resolved after he met with the company’s C.E.O., Tim Cook, at Apple’s headquarters.
• Layoffs at Twitter gutted the company’s child safety team, which is responsible for removing child exploitation.
• Musk offered a “general amnesty” for over 60,000 banned accounts on Twitter.
• unrest-covid-lockdowns.html?searchResultPosition=2">Protests in China rippled throughout the country, and citizens found ways to protests-censorship-video.html">get around the Chinese censorship apparatus.
• On Wednesday, bankman-fried-dealbook-interview-transcript.html">Sam Bankman-Fried appeared for an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit.

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