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Plus: What Elon’s Twitter would look like. [Quartz]( Sponsored by Good morning, Quartz readers! Was this newsletter forwarded to you? [Sign up here](. Forward to the friend who [thinks they’re fancy](. Here’s what you need to know Elon Musk suddenly changed his mind about joining Twitter’s board. Musk’s appointment was scheduled to begin on April 9, but [according to CEO Parag Agrawal](, he pulled out that same morning. The company’s [shares fell](. The war will shrink Ukraine’s economy by almost half, the World Bank warns. The bank also says the [economic impact of the conflict]( on the wider region will be worse than the pandemic. Shanghai is easing covid restrictions in parts of the city. But with authorities still pursuing a covid-zero strategy, despite [few serious cases](, 26 million people have faced [food shortages](. Joe Biden and Narendra Modi are scheduled to speak today. The two leaders are [discussing India’s neutrality]( over Russia-Ukraine, as well as the usual filler about “strengthening the global economy.” Emmanuel Macron led the first round of France’s election. Centrist Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen face off [in the second round]( on April 24. Pakistan’s parliament elects a new prime minister. A vote of no confidence ended Imran Khan’s four-year tenure, with potential successors [touting economic reform]( and diplomatic bridge-building with the US. Sponsor content by Trend Micro As cryptocurrencies continue to grow in popularity, organizations are increasingly at risk for cryptomining attacks. In fact, Apache Log4j (Log4Shell) was observed to be mostly used for cryptomining. [Trend Micro Research investigated]( the most prominent groups in the cryptocurrency-mining landscape to determine the impacts on organizations and establish best practices for effective risk mitigation. 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[$27.8 billion:]( GoTo’s valuation based on its IPO pricing [4%:]( Proportion of GoTo shares it’s selling, some of which it’s offering to merchants and drivers [2.5 million:]( Number of GoTo drivers [55 million:]( Annual number of users who make transactions on the app [$1 billion:]( Revenue in the 12 months through September [$330 billion:]( Expected size of Indonesia’s digital economy by 2030, five times larger than in 2021 Twitter x Elon [An illustration of what Twitter might look like if Elon Musk's suggestions take hold.] Amanda Shendruk Although he’s no longer joining the board of Twitter, its largest individual shareholder Elon Musk has been publicly ruminating on changes to the social media platform. Suggestions from the SpaceX and Tesla CEO range from the serious—lowering the price of Twitter’s subscription offering, [Twitter Blue](—to the strange (and misogynistic)—changing the company’s name to “Titter”. 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