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Elon Musk Has Strong One Word Response To Stephen King’s False Allegation Against Charlie Kirk After His Passing: "King needs to stick to books."
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2 months ago
Trump’s FTC will approve an ad merger — with a gift to Elon Musk’s X: The all-Republican Federal Trade Commission agreed to approve a $13.5 billion ad merger if it includes a ban on steering ad dollars away from platforms or publishers based on “political or ideological viewpoints.” The order, which was reported by The New York…
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5 months ago
Tesla celebrates key milestone for 4680 battery cell production cost: Tesla produces in-house 4680 battery cells at its Gigafactory in Texas, along with getting them from outside suppliers.
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5 months ago
Palmer Luckey reveals his latest texts with Elon Musk: Palmer Luckey, founder of startup Anduril, said on a podcast he hangs out at Mar-a-Lago and texts Elon Musk regularly — sometimes about pop culture.
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6 months ago
La semana terrible de Elon Musk: Tesla sumida en el caos, X caída, Starship explotando y otras sucesivas desdichas: Todos somos susceptibles de tener un mal día, pero cuando eres alguien con tantos frentes abiertos como Elon Musk, una serie de infortunios encadenados pueden convertir un mal día en una semana terrible en la que el universo entero conspira contra ti.
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9 months ago
US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking: Plus: Russian spies keep hijacking other hackers’ infrastructure, Hydra dark web market admin gets life sentence in Russia, and more of the week’s top security news.
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9 months ago
Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will they handle the surge?: Unlike other social media sites, Bluesky allows users to create their own algorithm. The site does not have ads, nor harvest data for artificial intelligence training. But it is still very small and has an unproven business record.
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10 months ago
Substackerati’s ‘Grave Concerns’ About White House/Big Tech Collusion Have Disappeared With Elon’s Ascension: For years, a vocal group of self-described “contrarian” Substackified pundits warned about a supposed “censorship industrial complex” involving collusion between the White House and social media companies to set content moderation policies. There was just one…
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a year ago
Telegram just announced a big change to how it'll deal with some users' data: Telegram is making changes to its privacy stance, weeks after CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France and after years of facing moderation and privacy issues.
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a year ago
Google's next trial, Tesla's AI future, and X's ad dollar bleed: Tech news roundup: Almost two years after CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that Tesla’s (TSLA) Smart Summon function wasn’t performing as well as hoped, the automaker has unveiled a new — and seemingly upgraded — version. Read more...
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a year ago
Trump Returns to Twitter in a Weird Way: The former president's account is posting ahead of his interview with Elon Musk.
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a year ago
‘I’m Sick’: Biden Uses Positive COVID Test to Take Dig at Musk and Trump: President Joe Biden used his positive COVID-19 diagnosis to take a dig at Elon Musk and Republican opponent Donald Trump.
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a year ago
What's next for Tesla's stock as shareholders and Wall Street pros weigh in: Elon Musk's pay deal — worth up to $56 billion -—has now been approved by Tesla shareholders. Yet investors and analysts Yahoo Finance spoke to are feeling...
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a year ago
Trump Deepfakes, Misinformation Flood X After Conviction: (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s supporters blasted artificial intelligence-generated images through social media after the former president was convicted of...
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a year ago
X: l’AI Grok ora crea delle news usando i post pubblicati sul social: Con Stories on X, nuova feature AI, il social network di proprietà di Elon Musk vuole diventare un punto di riferimento per l'informazione.
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a year ago
Barroso liga Musk a movimento para desestabilizar democracias: Em entrevista a um jornal britânico, Barroso afirmou que algumas pessoas fingem apoiar a democracia, mas atuam para desestabiliza-la
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2 years ago
Les piratages de célèbres comptes X s’enchainent, activez la double authentification: Trois célèbres comptes sur X (ex Twitter) ont été piratés en moins de 10 jours. Les hackers ont profité de la suppression d'une option sur le réseau social.
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2 years ago
With Concerns About Brand Safety, More Advertisers Have Left X: As controversy continues to swirl about brand safety on X and comments from owner Elon Musk, marketers have been pulling their ads resulting in a loss in revenue.
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2 years ago
La CEO de X ofrece una incómoda entrevista donde deja ver que Elon Musk no le consulta decisiones y que ella desconoce datos clave: Las polémicas con X, la antigua Twitter, a la que Elon Musk cambió el nombre, no paran de sucederse. La enorme sangría de despidos que ha protagonizado estos meses (hace unos días se ha conocido que más gente está ahora en la calle, de un área clave donde la …
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2 years ago
Fatiguée par la désinformation et la haine, l’université Aix-Marseille se retire de X (ex-Twitter): «Compte tenu de son évolution éditoriale», Aix-Marseille Université annonce ce mardi 17 octobre «suspendre» sa présence sur le réseau social d’Elon Musk.
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2 years ago
Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X’s Efforts to Curb Israel-Hamas War Disinformation: X's Trust and Safety team says it's working to remove false information related to the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is sharing conspiracies and chatting with QAnon promoters.
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2 years ago
X reportedly cuts half of its election integrity team: X has cut over half its election integrity team including the head of the group, according to a report from The Information at least partially confirmed by Elon Musk in an X post. That's despite X recently promising to expand the team ahead of 2024 US electio…
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2 years ago
EU asks Elon Musk to prove X isn’t breaking Europe’s disinformation rules: EU Commissioner Thierry Breton sent a letter to Elon Musk stating that there are indications that X is being used to disseminate disinformation in the EU.
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2 years ago
Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him: In August we wrote about a rumored plan of Elon Musk to remove headlines from the TwitterCards (are they now X-cards? who the hell knows?), basically making the site completely useless for news consumption. At the time Musk claimed it was somehow more aesthet…
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2 years ago
Elon Musk is finally fighting a genuine free speech battle: In September 2022, one month before Elon Musk took over Twitter, California governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 587 into law. Dubbed by its proponents as a “transparency law,” the state statute requires large social media companies to publicly post their content …
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2 years ago
X will now tell you if someone deletes a post you annotated with a Community Note: If you add a Community Post to a post on X (formerly Twitter), X will now tell you if the person who wrote the post deletes it. The idea here seems to be to give people with the ability to add Community Notes another tool to keep other users accountable.
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2 years ago
Report finds Twitter throttles tweets linking to the New York Times: It's been known for some time that Twitter has been messing with tweets that link to The New York Times and other media disliked by Elon Musk, but Semafor decided to science it out—these stories tend to come and go without much substance to them. — Read the r…
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2 years ago
Elon Musk's control of Starlink gives him unchecked power over elected governments: There is a growing consensus that one unelected man should not decide what is or is not a legitimate military target.
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2 years ago
X reportedly cuts half of its election integrity team: X has cut over half its election integrity team including the head of the group, according to a report from The Information at least partially confirmed by Elon Musk in an X post. That's despite X recently promising to expand the team ahead of 2024 US electio…
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2 years ago
'It's a dealbreaker:' Some Tesla fans are complaining about the new Model 3's 'terrible' turn-signal buttons: Elon Musk has revolutionized cars. But some Tesla fans say he's going too far by changing the turn signals in the new Model 3.
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