Health officials are warning the public of a Vietnamese hemorrhoid ointment that contains a dangerous amount of lead after a California woman died from using the product.
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...
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...
The deposition, which is part of an ongoing defamation lawsuit, provides insight into Musk's acknowledgment of the consequences of his actions on the digital platform.
California health officials are warning the public about a Vietnamese hemorrhoid ointment that is laced with a "highly dangerous amount of lead" and has killed a Sacramento woman. California Health Department officials said in a written statement that the woman purchased the Vietnamese product in March through Facebook. A relative then shipped it to her from Vietnam. After using the ointment, the woman experienced symptoms related to lead poisoning and died. The Vietnamese product, in a small,...
IN an extraordinary turn of events that sounds more like a script from a dramatic movie, a 70-year-old woman from Uganda has
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Making users pay is only way to stop bots taking over platform
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
X (formerly Twitter) users reported an outage for a brief period on Thursday. Several users were having trouble accessing the site due to a technical issue. According to Downdetector, which detects and monitors online outages and difficulties, users reported being unable to use the platform. Soon after the outage, many netizens were left confused and took to the microblogging platform asking if X is not working.While a few asked if the platform is down, others took the route of hilarity and made...
As Tesla's stock slumped in 2024, Elon Musk has turned his focus to other ventures, most notably by taking a more active role in turning X back into Twitter.It is also no secret that Tesla's shine has dimmed in 2024. The Musk-owned automotive company faces declining demand for electric vehicles and intensifying challenges in the Chinese market. Even typically optimistic analysts like Wedbush's Dan Ives were harsh, calling Tesla's most recent quarter a "trainwreck."Mirroring Tesla's stock...
Reuters reported Tesla scrapped its Robotaxi plan. Elon Musk tweeted otherwise. We'll see come August.