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Years before big hack, Twitter contractors reportedly spied on celebs, including Beyoncé

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Years before the July 15th attack on Twitter that let hackers compromise some of the social network’s most high-profile accounts to tweet Bitcoin scams, Twitter contractors apparently were able to use Twitter’s internal tools to spy on some celebrities, including Beyoncé, according to a report from Bloomberg chronicling

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Trump’s vehicle emissions rollback faces EPA Inspector General probe

Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General has opened an investigation into its own agency’s role in the Trump administration’s replacement of an Obama-era rule that curbed greenhouse gas emissions in cars. The Inspector General’s office will examine whether there were any “irregularities” during the process of crafting the

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