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The far-right politician Rasmus Paludan. Fredrik Sandberg/TT  

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Danish Säpo confirms threats after Koran burning 

Danish Security Police (PET) confirms that the Koran burnings in Denmark and Sweden entailed "a greater number of threats" from militant Islamists, writes Jyllands-Posten. PET does not want to comment on specific threat assessments relating to concrete events, places or people.  

However, PET writes in an email to the newspaper that the Koran burnings can become a point of reference for Islamist movements, just as Lars Vilk's Muhammad drawings became after they were published in Jyllands-Posten in 2005.  

The threats from militant Islamists first surfaced after the Pentagon leak, where it was revealed that Islamists had called for terrorist acts against specific targets as revenge for Rasmus Paludan's Koran burnings in Sweden and Denmark.  

View of Bangkok, Thailand. Police image of the female suspect. Wiki Commons / POLICETV UCI MEDIA  

Woman allegedly murdered 12 friends with cyanide in Thailand  

Thai police have arrested a woman in Bangkok on suspicion of having killed 12 friends and acquaintances using the poison cyanide, the BBC reports.  

The arrest came after the woman allegedly traveled with a friend to the Ratchaburi region to attend a Buddhist ceremony. The dead friend who had also been robbed of his belongings is said to have been found by a river. 

After an autopsy, the police were able to trace the woman who is now suspected of a total of twelve murders, including the poisoning of her ex-boyfriend and two female police officers. According to the police, the motive must be financially based. The woman denies any wrongdoing.  

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Elon Musk's Twitter Twitter verification can be deceptive marketing  

There has been a lot of talk about Twitter's blue verification symbol, and now the question is being raised whether Twitter's handling of the matter could be classified as misleading marketing. That's what Wired writes in a report on the matter, where law and media professor Alexandra Roberts at Northeastern University speaks out.  

Twitter has chosen to provide famous people with the verification for free, while next to the verification it says that the account is "verified because the account pays for Twitter Blue and has confirmed its phone number".  

- There are a number of legal requirements that may arise as a result of Twitter giving blue verification symbols to accounts that do not have a subscription and do not want the mark, Roberts told Wired. 

The author Stephen King is one of the famous people who reacted to the matter. He writes in a post on Twitter that he neither paid for Twitter Blue nor has confirmed any phone number, but despite this has received the blue marking.  

Both Twitter and the US Federal Trade Commission have declined to comment on the matt.