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A fraud tracker says verified Twitter accounts were taken over to send bitcoin spam to Elon Musk s followers, ahead of his SNL appearance kshalvey@businessinsider.com (Kevin Shalvey)
Verified Twitter accounts changed their profiles to SNL and posted a bitcoin giveaway website.
The spam targeted followers of Tesla CEO Elon Musk ahead of his hosting gig tonight.
The accounts included Jorge Taiana, an Argentine senator with about 114,000 followers.
In a series of Saturday morning tweets, the users behind the account @MalwareHunterTeam posted screenshots of verified accounts that seemed to have been taken over. Another verified account is being used to spread SNL / Musk themed scam, the @MalwareHunterTeam wroteeachtime.
Robert Reich Deletes FDR-Biden Comparison After Remembering FDR’s Internment Camps
By Rudy TakalaApr 29th, 2021, 12:09 pm
Joe Biden to President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt after recalling the late president rounded up Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps.
“Biden could be as transformative a president as FDR,” Reich wrote in the missive late on Wednesday. “But FDR didn’t have to contend with a paranoid, xenophobic, racist opposition drenched in lies and extremist propaganda from right-wing media.”
FDR literally rounded people up and put them in camps because of their ethnicity. Literally. https://t.co/fojzUvDBze
More than 110,000 Japanese American prisoners were imprisoned during World War II in FDR’s internment camps, which opened in 1942. They closed in March 1946, three months before Reich’s birth.
UK coronavirus variant now detected in all 50 US states, CDC says
From CNN’s Michael Nedelman
More than 15,000 cases of a coronavirus variant first spotted in the UK have been reported in all 50 US states for the first time by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to data updated Monday.
Florida leads in these numbers, with 3,191 known cases of the variant, which is known to be both more contagious and more deadly than earlier strains. Michigan, whose current surge has been partly connected to the variant, has the second highest number of known cases 1,649.
CDC’s update included two other variants of concern: There are 374 total cases of a variant initially seen in South Africa, called B.1.351, in 32 states and Washington, DC. In addition, there are 289 total cases of the P.1 variant first linked to Brazil among 25 states.