Ω I’m enjoying the long May Day weekend in the UK – hoping for some sun to have ice cream on the beach!

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Elon Musk will officially buy Twitter: for $ 44 billion and it is unclear how this will affect Twitter in the short and long term. Cybersecurity experts also say that Twitter could be more vulnerable to attacks if Musk’s idea of ​​using open source technology goes ahead, not to mention privacy concerns. Musk could potentially owe Twitter $ 1 billion if the deal is canceled… In addition, Musk’s ideas for increasing profits on Twitter could include generating revenue from your Tweets and increasing interaction with celebrities.

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The Tokyo Vice season finale aired on Friday, so while we wait anxiously to hear if there will be a second season, take a look at Jake Adelstein’s true story. If you’ve not seen the show, watch Season 1 on stream now on HBO Max. Nicolas Cage’s 13 best shows (and where to watch them), including Leaving Las Vegas, Face / Off and more. Mashable’s critique of the Man who fell to earth is: it responds – and then – to the original material. Nintendo has delayed its Super Mario movie for April 2023, but it will obviously be worth the wait. And Netflix is ​​releasing a trailer, the release date for the Korean remake of Money Heist: June 24th. Check out what’s new on Netflix in May: Stranger Things Season 4 (!), The Lincoln Lawyer and a new Mike Myers comedy series. CNN Plus closed two days earlier than scheduled on April 28. Is the dismissal missing? Check out these 15 revelations from the Reddit AMA of Severance creator Dan Erickson. Or check out some of this week’s best streaming movies, from queer teen drama Crush to Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express.

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Blizzard will unveil its first Warcraft mobile game on May 3 at 10 a.m. PT. Ubisoft is launching online services for 91 games on multiple console and PC platforms, including Just Dance, Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2 and more. Sega draws standalone Sonic toys before the arrival of Sonic Origins. Apple threatens to remove games that have not been recently updated from its store, the developers are ready. Meanwhile, Sony is setting up a toy maintenance team to keep old toys alive. Speaking of Sony, it is said to require some developers to create two-hour trial versions of their games in preparation for the upcoming PS Plus Premium subscriptions: they will only apply to new games with a wholesale cost of $ 34 or more and have no retroactive effect. Sony is also limiting the stacking of PlayStation Now subscriptions to protect the upcoming Premium service: if you’ve already registered, you’ll have to wait until June to redeem your prepaid cards. The PlayStation Plus May Games are Tribes of Midgard, Curse of the Dead Gods and FIFA 22. Speaking of demos: The annual Tribeca Festival will include a selection of games that participants can play online from a distance, including the demos for Plague Tale: Requiem and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals – tickets for sale on May 2. And PAX East is over for another year: Here are some of Ars Technica’s favorite games from the event. Meanwhile, an Elden Ring VR mod is coming and PC Gamer has some plans. And Vampire Battle Royale: Bloodhunt is free on PlayStation 5 now, not available anywhere else until October 2023. Finally: The Nintendo Switch Sports has landed and there are reviews.

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Eric Zeman / Android Authority This week, just read a little. I just finished listening to the episode of the Hoax podcast “Jimmy’s World” about the 26-year-old Pultizer (and lost) Washington Post journalist Janet Cooke. In case you have not heard it, its story is quite interesting.

On September 28, 1980, Washington Post readers were greeted with works of art for a story entitled “Jimmy’s World.” The subtitle of the story: “The 8-year-old heroin addict lives for a repair” made waves all over the country. But later it became one of the biggest journalistic scandals of all time, something we like to believe would not happen today, with all the technology we have at our disposal to control facts and history…

From the original article: “Jimmy is 8 years old and addicted to third-generation heroin, a premature baby boy with sandy hair, velvety brown eyes and needle marks that create freckles on the soft skin of his slender brown hands. It nests in a large, beige reclining chair in the living room of its comfortably furnished home in Southeastern Washington. There is an almost cherubic expression on his small, round face as he talks about life – clothes, money, the Baltimore Orioles and heroin. He has been addicted since the age of 5 “. Shocking. But were any of them true?

Who was Janet Cook?

Janet Cooke had worked as a reporter for The Toledo Blade for just over two years when she wrote to executive editor Ben Bradlee, asking for a job at the Washington Post, attaching her CV and six articles she had written for The Blade.

Bradlee was impressed that Cooke was a graduate of Vassar Phi Beta Kappa in 1976 and offered her an interview. Two weeks later, Cook impressed everyone she met. She was a cheerful, well-dressed, striking black woman who seemed ideal for the job, especially because of the pressures to hire women and minorities. Cooke started working for The Post on January 3, 1980. Everyone was so impressed with her that no one could really remember that she did anything more than do a cursory check on her reports.

Cooke began working for The District Weekly under Vivian Aplin-Brownlee.

Cooke wrote her first byline two weeks after she was hired – a story about a black beauty contest. It was only on February 21 that her first major article was published – a story about the drug-ridden corridor of Washington, which pushed Cooke firmly into the drug reporting scene. Cook went on to write 52 more stories before “Jimmy’s World”. But behind the scenes, she was known for her dramatic talent. She was conspicuous, wore branded clothes and “fitted blind and raw ambition”. She even talked to others about her ambitions to win a Pulitzer Prize in three years and be on the national staff in three to five years.

The story itself

Aplin Brownlee had heard of a new kind of heroin on the streets. Cook was sent to investigate, interviewing drug rehabilitation experts and social workers about heroin abuse in Washington.

Cook amassed two hours of videotaped interviews and 145 pages of handwritten notes, which landed on the office of Milton Coleman, who had worked at the Post since May 1976 and took over the City office on May 26, 1980. At this point, heroin stories circulated regularly, but when Cooke talked about the material with Coleman and mentioned an 8-year-old addict, he immediately realized it was a front-page story.

Cooke allegedly went to dinner with the heroin addict’s mother and visited their home, but no one asked the boy’s name or address, and Cooke received a promise of confidentiality about her sources. He even claimed that he had been threatened with a knife by the boy’s father and was sent to stay with another Post employee for two nights after the story was published. The details of the story were extensive, with the first draft circulating in 13.5 pages and describing the child, his clothes and the family home in great detail. Somewhere along the way, everyone assumed that Coleman knew who the child was, but no one ever asked him.

When the story was published on Sunday, September 28, 892,220 copies of the newspaper circulated “Jimmy’s World” on the front page. Unlike today, when we could easily use the latest technology to check reports, verify sources, and find out where this family lived, in the 1980s it was all considered by name. There was no need to discuss whether this well-written story was true. Readers were outraged and wondered what was going on to find the boy. The story was sent to Nancy Reagan, the first lady of the nation and …