Tesla chief Elon Musk will visit India this month to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is expected to make an announcement related to his plans to invest and open a new factory in the country, two sources with direct knowledge said. The billionaire executive will meet Modi in the week of April 22 in New Delhi, and will separately make an announcement about his India plans, said the two sources, who declined to be named as the trip details are confidential. Modi's office and Tesla did not...
In January 2020, as it became clear that countries outside of China were reporting COVID cases, the taxpayer-funded World Health Organization instead spent its time publishing a series of 14 tweets about the dangers of vaping, including claims that e-cigarette liquid is “highly flammable,” that secondhand vapor is lethal to bystanders, and that there is no evidence that e-cigarettes help people to quit smoking, all of which are entirely false.It was a scurrilous thread deliberately designed to...
SAO PAULO >> Headline-grabbing billionaire Elon Musk is clashing with a Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X, the social media platform Musk bought when it was Twitter.
A non-permanent fee for new users could soon be Elon Musk's X's only way to stop bots. New users on X could soon be met with a small fee before they can post, as Elon Musk unveils it is the "only way" to help stop bots from plaguing the platform.
The EV company keeps pushing its “next phase of growth” message, but it’s getting harder to look past a slump in vehicle sales and its unexciting lineup.
Elon Musk is planning to charge new X users a small fee to enable posting on the social network and to curb the bot problem. In reply to an X account that posted about changes on X’s website, Musk said charging a small fee to new accounts was the “only way” to stop the “onslaught […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Elon Musk is clashing with a bald, athletically built Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X. The headline-grabbbing billionaire bought the social media platform when it was Twitter. He has upended many of Twitter’s policies, gutted its staff and transformed what people see on the site. As not only its owner but perhaps its most influential user, he’s used it to try to sway political discourse around the world. His latest entanglement is...
Elon Musk is clashing with a bald, athletically built Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X. The headline-grabbbing billionaire bought the social media platform when it was Twitter. He has upended many of Twitter’s policies, gutted its staff and transformed what people see on the site. As not only its owner but perhaps its most influential user, he’s used it to try to sway political discourse around the world. His latest entanglement is...
Musk failed to keep his most recent deposition hidden from the public.
SpaceX is trying to kill a federal agency that accused it of labor violations. Ostensibly progressive brands have leaped to join inElon Musk boasts that he’s a “free speech absolutist”, but that didn’t stop his rocket company, SpaceX, from firing eight workers who had criticized him for making light of reports that SpaceX had settled a sexual harassment claim against him.Not stopping there, SpaceX has moved to put the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the US’s top labor watchdog, out of...
Why should you care about Elon Musk being held in contempt by a Brazilian Supreme Court justice? It turns out this story is the tip of a fascistic iceberg that is being funded by your taxpayer dollars. Michael Shellenberger recently released an incredible video showing the disturbing corruption happening in Brazil right now — the same kind that is taking hold in our own government. It’s shocking. The justice who is holding Musk in contempt is Alexandre de Moraes, the key figure behind the...
The first measures to reduce the amount of "through traffic" in the city centre will be introduced in August, which will see cars banned from Bachelor's Walk and Aston Quay.