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Rihanna is teaming up with Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey to address the current crisis for domestic violence victims in Los Angeles as a result of the COVID-19 “stay at home” order.

Rihanna‘s Clara Lionel Foundation and Dorsey are going to co-fund a joint grant that will go to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles. They were each committing $2.1 million for a total donation of $4.2 million.

The funds “will provide 10 weeks of support including shelter, meals and counseling for individuals and their children suffering from domestic violence at a time when shelters are full and incidents are on the rise.”

It has been reported that approximately 90 people per week (plus their children in many cases) are being turned away from domestic violence shelters ever since the Safer at Home order began.

“At approximately $125 per day, the grant will cover housing and food for 90 domestic violence victims per week, with an additional 90 victims every week thereafter for 10 weeks,” CLF said in a statement.

Rihanna has already donated $5 million to aiding the health crisis, she also donated medical supplies to the New York pandemic relief, and she and Jay-Z teamed up for a $2 million donation to support “undocumented workers, the incarcerated, homeless and elderly populations, and children of frontline healthcare workers.”

Jack recently donated $1 billion to the coronavirus relief efforts.

Jack Dorsey is donating $1 billion to COVID-19 relief efforts.

The 43-year-old co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and the founder and CEO of Square, is donating in the form of his equity in Square.

Jack, who has a net worth of around $3.3 billion according to Forbes, made the announcement on Tuesday (April 7) on Twitter.

He explained that the $1 billion is 28 percent of his net wealth and that the funds will be distributed via the Start Small Foundation.

“Why now? The needs are increasingly urgent, and I want to see the impact in my lifetime,” he tweeted. “I hope this inspires others to do something similar. Life is too short, so let’s do everything we can today to help people now.”

He added that “after we disarm this pandemic,” the fund’s focus will change to support girl’s health and education as well as universal basic income.

“I believe they represent the best long-term solutions to the existential problems facing the world,” Jack continued. “UBI is a great idea needing experimentation. Girl’s health and education is critical to balance.”

Jack Dorsey said that he is utilizing his Square holdings because “I own a lot more Square” and that he’ll need to “pace the sales over some time. The impact this money will have should benefit both companies over the long-term because it’s helping the people we want to serve.”

See what else stars are doing to help out amid the health crisis.

Will Twitter ever add an edit button?

“The answer is no,” Jack Dorsey, CEO of the social media platform, said when asked if they would be implementing the tool in 2020.

“As you all know, when you send a text, you can’t really take it back,” Jack said. “We wanted to preserve that vibe, that feeling, in the early days.”

Adding that if someone could edit their text after people retweet it, it could end up being an endorsement of something else. He added, “we’ll probably never do it.”

One celebrity is extremely passionate about having Twitter add an edit button and even met with Jack over it.

Jack Dorsey is putting an end to political ads on Twitter.

The 42-year-old co-founder and CEO of Twitter made the announcement on Wednesday (October 30).

“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought,” he wrote.

“While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions. Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale,” he went on to write.

“We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn’t fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we’re stopping these too.”

While many users sent praise Jack‘s way upon the announcement, Donald Trump‘s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, slammed the decision in a statement.

“Twitter just walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue, a very dumb decision for their stockholders. Will Twitter also be stopping ads from biased liberal media outlets who will now run unchecked as they buy obvious political content meant to attack Republicans? This is yet another attempt to silence conservatives, since Twitter knows President Trump has the most sophisticated online program ever known.”

See Jack‘s tweet thread inside…

Jack Dorsey only earned a salary of $1.40 in his job as CEO of Twitter in 2018.

“As a testament to his commitment to and belief in Twitter’s long-term value creation potential, our CEO, Jack Dorsey, declined all compensation and benefits for 2015, 2016 and 2017, and in 2018 he declined all compensation and benefits other than a salary of $1.40,” a company filing read (via Business Insider).

$1.40 seems to be an homage to the former character count for tweets – there used to be a 140 character limit before doubling back in 2017.

He didn’t make absolutely no money in 2018, however, as he unloaded 1.7 million shares of Square and it’s estimated he took home $80 million last year from that alone.

There’s a rumor swirling that Twitter may be removing the “like” button from the social media site!

The Telegraph reports that the platform’s founder, Jack Dorsey, made the suggestion at an event last week.

He apparently admitted he didn’t like the “like” button and would be getting rid of it “soon.” He then explained that removing the button would “improve the quality of debate on the social network.”

Twitter responded to the report, saying, “As we’ve been saying for a while, we are rethinking everything about the service to ensure we are incentivizing healthy conversation, that includes the like button. We are in the early stages of the work and have no plans to share right now.”

Seth Rogen is calling out Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over the social media platform’s verification process, specifically, who they choose to give the infamous blue check marks to.

“I’ve been DMing with @jack about his bizarre need to verify white supremacists on his platform for the last 8 months or so, and after all the exchanges, I’ve reached a conclusion: the dude simply does not seem to give a f*ck,” Seth tweeted on Tuesday (July 3).

So far, Jack, nor Twitter, has not responded to Seth‘s allegation. Stay tuned.