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Twitter reportedly told Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes on Monday that it would not challenge his censorship demands.
Elon Musk criticized Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after a judge ordered X to delete footage of a Sydney terrorist incident, arguing that the verdict could allow any nation to control the entire internet.
Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Love him or hate him, Elon Musk attracts as much attention as any CEO in memory. The latest example: this week’s Tesla earnings call, an obligatory event that at times seemed to be anticipated as a borderline cultural happening. Of course, a public company with a whopping market cap like Tesla’s will draw plenty of investor interest in its latest numbers. Of course, there were the usual...
To strengthen his artificial intelligence (AI) company, Elon Musk urged ambitious individuals to join his groundbreaking initiative, xAI. This wide-ranging project seeks engineers, designers, and staff for product development, data analysis, and infrastructure management."Join xAI," the tech tycoon wrote in a cross-post. Musk shared a link to his AI company's Careers page in the cross-post. Grok, an AI-powered chatbot launched in 2023, is at the forefront of this burgeoning enterprise. xAI is...
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...
Australian court ruled X take down footage of violent stabbing in Sydney church
Elon Musk said Friday (April 12) that charging users a “small fee” to become active on X may be necessary to reduce bots and spam on the social media platform. “Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” he wrote in a Monday […]
An ad calling for the execution of gay people is reportedly running on X, according to the political watchdog account @EyesOnTheRight. The alleged ad comes as big-name advertisers flee the social media […]
Anthony Albanese's comments come amid a feud over X's reluctance to remove footage of a stabbing.
Making users pay is only way to stop bots taking over platform