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Law & Crime reports: Months after Elon Musk’s X Corp. urged the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to find that special counsel Jack Smith unlawfully forced Twitter to hand over evidence of Trump’s “private communications” without the former president’s knowledge of the Jan. 6 probe-related action, the high court on Monday refused to take up the case and offered …

Matt Binder reports at Disruptionist: X owner Elon Musk has once again hijacked a rare coveted username from its original user. This time, however, the takeover wasn’t for the good of X the company, it was so Musk could promote Donald Trump for president. On Saturday, Musk began promoting his pro-Trump Super PAC, called America PAC, using a brand new …

Axios reports: Elon Musk plans to attend former President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, the billionaire announced in a post on X late Thursday. Trump’s return to the scene of the first assassination attempt against his life had already raised concerns among local officials, per Axios Philadelphia’s Isaac Avilucea. Representatives for Musk and Trump did not immediately respond …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk’s friendship with Sean “Diddy” Combs resurfaced on Wednesday after the billionaire questioned “how many people in music & entertainment knew about” Combs’ alleged serial sex abuse. In their new book Character Limit, authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac alleged that Musk boasted about his friendship with Combs to Revolt CEO Detavio Samuels after Samuels expressed concern …

TechCrunch reports: Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity. his 78.7% markdown implies that Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion overall. (TechCrunch’s assessment assumes that Fidelity’s investment in X was made at a $44 billion valuation. The acquisition was financed …

The Verge reports: X will now make your posts visible to users you’ve blocked. In a reply on Monday, X owner Elon Musk said the “block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, public post.” Currently, X displays a “You’re blocked” message when trying to view the profile of a person who’s blocked you. In …

The New York Times reports: After defying court orders in Brazil for three weeks, Mr. Musk’s social network, X, has capitulated. In a court filing on Friday night, the company’s lawyers said that X had complied with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court in the hopes that the court would lift a block on its site. The decision was a surprise …

Reuters reports: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk after he failed to appear for scheduled testimony for the regulator’s probe into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. In a court filing, the SEC said the sanctions motion would seek an order to show case for why Musk should not be …

CNBC Tech reports: Elon Musk’s X faces steep daily fines in Brazil for allegedly evading a ban on the service there, according to a statement from the country’s supreme court on Thursday. The fines, imposed by Brazil’s supreme court (Supremo Tribuno Federal or STF) amount to $5 million in Brazilian reals, about $920,000, a day. The court said it would …

The Daily Beast reports: The Tesla boss on Wednesday reshared a post alleging that ABC News had “falsely claimed the Springfield City Manager refuted Trump’s debate statement” about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio. The person speaking in the post’s video, however, was not the city manager. Several hours later, Musk also shared a map projecting a sweeping electoral college …

Reuters reports: The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it was aware of a post by billionaire Elon Musk on the X social media platform musing about an absence of assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Musk wrote on Sunday: “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” a post he ended with an …

ABC News reports: The White House on Monday decried a now-deleted post by Elon Musk on X as “irresponsible.” In the Sunday night post — which he made after the second apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump — Musk, who owns the platform, responded to a user who asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” In his …

Forbes reports: Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, reacted to an apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Sunday by pointing out that no one was trying to kill either President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris, in a post that drew strong condemnation on X. On Sunday night, Musk reshared a post asking why people want to …

Axios reports: Brazil’s top judge lifted restrictions on the bank accounts of Elon Musk’s Starlink and X on Friday after more than $3 million dollars in fines were transferred, multiple outlets reported. It’s the latest in the standoff over misinformation vs. freedom of speech between Musk and Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who the billionaire has accused of acting as a …

Reuters reports: A conservative party in Brazil is seeking to reverse a judge’s ban on Elon Musk’s X platform, potentially escalating the months-long feud over censorship and hate speech in South America’s largest country. Partido Novo’s challenge of the decision by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes barring the popular social media site will be taken up by another top …

Reuters reports: Elon Musk’s social media platform X won on Wednesday an appeal to partially block a California law requiring social media companies to publish their policies for combating disinformation, harassment, hate speech and extremism. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a lower court judge’s decision declining to pause enforcement of …

Politico reports: Hackers apparently breached the social media accounts of Lara and Tiffany Trump on Tuesday, distributing what the former president’s son said were two fake posts touting a family cryptocurrency venture. The posts on the social network X appeared to come from the accounts of Lara Trump, the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, and Tiffany, the younger of …

Mediaite reports: X/Twitter CEO and Trump booster Elon Musk posted a shocking AI image of Vice President Kamala Harris that echoes a favorite attack from former President Donald Trump. The post is a reference to a December interview during which Trump made a provocative promise to be a “dictator” but “only on day one,” in response to Sean Hannity’s extremely …

The Associated Press reports: A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide, according to the court’s website. The broader support among justices undermines the effort by Musk and his supporters to cast Justice Alexandre de Moraes as an authoritarian renegade who is …

The Washington Post reports: His and his partners’ overall stake has shed $24 billion in value — a vaporization of wealth that has little parallel outside the realm of economic or industry-specific crashes, or devastating corporate scandals. Among those shouldering the burden: Saudi and Qatari business leaders and royalty; Silicon Valley venture capital and tech investors; and Twitter co-founder and …