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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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2 months 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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2 months 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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3 months 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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4 months 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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5 months 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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5 months 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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6 months 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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6 months 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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10 months 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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a year 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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