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.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, he found millions of documents that showed collusion between the White House and Twitter employees to censor Americans. These became known as the Twitter files. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was one American specifically targeted in those documents. “The government put pressure on a corporation to silence you. That is, by most legal standards, that would be a violation of the First Amendment,” Dave Rubin says. Rather than ignoring them, Musk then invited...
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Elon Musk is clashing with a bald, athletically built Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X
From Monday to Tuesday of this week, the social media platform X (formerly Twitter)—Elon Musk’s sanctum of free speech—briefly became a scammers’ paradise because of an executive decision to change the free speech of posts he didn’t like. Since the site’s rebrand in July, the team at what’s now X has been urging the media, the public, and the platform’s own users to retire “Twitter,” “Twitter.com,” “tweet,” “retweet,” and other words from their lexicon. But habits die hard when they involve...
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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...
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A big part of what has led to social media platform Twitter/X’s current popularity is the lack of fees for signing up. The “public square” role the platform has often claimed only works if the public can actually access it. But that’s been significantly changed since Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of the platform for $44
Two tech startup CEOs challenged Elon Musk's AI predictions with million-dollar bets. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is known for his ambitious forecasts about the future, some of which have come to fruition, while others have proven overly optimistic.Walter Isaacson, the author of Musk's biography, recently noted this tendency, highlighting the billionaire's underestimation of the time needed to achieve his goals. Seemingly confirming Isaacson's observation, Musk, during a live X interview with...