BREAKING: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is poised to be elected the new Brazilian president, defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro trib.al/X6BEFVK

Lula poised to defeat Bolsonaro in Brazil election bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Twitter's new owner tweets (then deletes) conspiracy theory about attack on Paul Pelosi cnn.com/2022/10/30/bus…

The youngest associate and paralegal at WLRK had the assignment of tracking and explaining Elon’s most esoteric memes to the partners:

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The last message in Twitter’s main company Slack channel: who’s our new CEO?

Layoffs could happen as soon as today at Twitter. Some managers have been asked to make lists of people to cut.

Latest on the saga w/ kate conger and Sheera Frenkel.

nytimes.com/2022/10/29/tec…

The complaint (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…) stems from a meeting at which Howard Schultz told a pro-union employee, “If you hate Starbucks so much, why don’t you work somewhere else?” as I reported in this cover story: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Scoop: Labor Board general counsel just issued a complaint accusing Howard Schultz of threatening staff bloomberg.com/news/articles/… “threatened employees with discharge by inviting employees to quit their employment because they engaged in union and/or protected concerted activities”

Former MTA chief Sarah Feinberg punched near subway stop, NY Post is reporting nypost.com/2022/10/28/ex-…

twitter's new free speech council must review!!

Bank of America's Merrill Lynch client associates (advisors' key support staff) are fed up. Generally, they're not paid enough for how well Merrill is doing, their WFH flexibility sucks, and they're overloaded with work. NEW deep dive w/ Hayley Cuccinello: businessinsider.com/bank-of-americ…

Twitter engineering teams are being told 'bring code' for meetings suddenly scheduled this evening with Elon Musk for tomorrow. Meanwhile, the C-suite is now gone.
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twit…

Scoop: ⁦Moderna Inc.⁩ is close to clinching a deal with the US Department of Defense to develop messenger RNA vaccines targeting a range of biological threats such as Ebola virus.

From me + ⁦Riley Ray Griffin⁩ for ⁦Bloomberg⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Elon Musk officially owns Twitter and has fired multiple top execs bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: Paxlovid was prescribed to Black and Hispanic Covid-19 patients at much lower rates than those who were white, according to a new report published by ⁦CDC⁩.

More here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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New: A report from NewsGuard found that Facebook is running ads from “pink slime” newsrooms. The operations have spent ~$4M in the last year, and are increasing their spending as we get closer to midterms. I covered the news for Bloomberg Technology bloomberg.com/news/articles/…