Tag Archives: Twitter

Mashable reports: Over the weekend, Elon Musk made his support for Donald Trump official by publicly endorsing the former-president. Now, it appears that Musk’s social media platform X is also displaying support for Trump. This is, however, apparently paid promotion. “This is a commercially available product,” an X representative told Mashable in an email. For example, when an X user …

The New York Post reports: Elon Musk plans to donate around $45 million per month to a new political group backing ex-President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, according to a report. The Tesla boss — who fully endorsed Trump in the wake of the weekend assassination attempt — is one of several tech moguls contributing to the America PAC, …

Agence France-Presse reports: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s X platform is misleading users with its blue checkmarks for certified accounts, and is also violating EU content rules, Brussels said Friday, in a finding that could lead to hefty fines. EU regulators are unhappy with the blue badge system under Musk’s ownership since anyone can now obtain it with a premium subscription, …

NBC News reports: The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered and dismantled a Russian propaganda network with nearly 1,000 accounts pushing pro-Russia posts on the social media platform X. The accounts on X posed as Americans, including a bitcoin investor in Minneapolis, but in reality they were masks for Russian operatives who had the approval and financial support of …

Reuters reports: Elon Musk wants to dismiss a lawsuit by former Twitter shareholders who said he waited too long in early 2022 to reveal his large ownership stake in the social media company, saying “all indications” show his delay was a mistake. In a late Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, Musk called it implausible to believe he wanted …

Bloomberg News reports: A major plank of Elon Musk’s plan for expanding X into an “everything app” has been grafting a payments network onto its main social networking service. The details of this project have remained blurry, but dozens of documents the company has submitted to state regulators—which have not previously been made public—give a new view of the business. …

Courthouse News reports: Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday asked a federal judge to throw out the Elon Musk-funded wrongful termination lawsuit by actress Gina Carano, who was dropped from “The Mandalorian” television series after comparing the treatment of conservatives in the U.S. to that of Jews in Nazi Germany. In their request to dismiss Carano’s complaint, Disney and its Lucasfilms …

Mashable reports: X, formerly Twitter, has officially started hiding public “likes” on posts. X’s director of engineering Haofei Wang confirmed the news, saying in a post, “Public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior. For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be ‘edgy’ in fear of retaliation from trolls, or to protect their public image. You’ll be …

TechCrunch reports: The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other. X (formerly Twitter) has long had many active NSFW (not safe for work) communities, and though the social network unofficially allowed people to post adult content, its rules have …

Axios reports: X and cable news network NewsNation are planning to host live town halls with former President Trump and independent presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr., two sources familiar with the plans told Axios. The pair have agreed in principle to separate live interviews as part of a new video series, titled “The People’s Town Hall,” per the sources, …

Reuters reports: Fake accounts posting about the U.S. presidential election are proliferating on the social media platform X, according to a social media analysis company’s report shared with Reuters exclusively ahead of its release on Friday. Analysts from Israeli tech company Cyabra, which uses a subset of artificial intelligence called machine learning to identify fake accounts, found that 15% of …

The Meidas Touch reports: Madeline Westerhout was called next by the prosecution. She was Donald Trump’s Executive Assistant in the White House. She said that Trump’s former golf caddie Dan Scavino was also always around to help Trump with his twitter account. She said Scavino and Trump were the only people who had access to his twitter account. She said …

Fox News-owned site OutKick reports: Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestine protests have thrown college campuses into chaos over the past few weeks, with absurd, embarrassing demonstrations especially common at Columbia University and UCLA. But X and Tesla’s Elon Musk has an idea of how to reward the protestors intent on flying the Palestinian, or any other country’s flag, instead of the American flag: …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday turned away tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s attempt to challenge the terms of an agreement he reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission that required a lawyer to review some of his social media posts. The justices rejected Musk’s appeal of a ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit …

Reuters reports: An Australian senator said on Wednesday that police feared Elon Musk’s decision to ignore a regulator order and leave footage on his social media platform X of a Sydney bishop being stabbed might encourage people to join terrorist groups. An Australian court has upheld a regulator order for the billionaire to take down posts containing footage of the …

The Verge reports: Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.” The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a closed beta in November 2022, …

NBC News reports: The automaker Hyundai said it had paused its advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X, after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts. Hyundai confirmed the pause in a statement to NBC News late Wednesday and said it was taking its brand safety concerns to Musk’s company. “We have paused …

Brasil Wire reports: On April 3, Michael Shellenberger tweeted a series of excerpts from emails by X executives dubbed, “Twitter Files Brazil”, which alleged to expose crimes by Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes, he claimed, had pressed criminal charges against Twitter Brasil’s lawyer for its refusal to turn over personal information on political enemies. Elon Musk quickly …

Ars Technica reports: Tesla is asking shareholders to approve a move to Texas and to re-approve a $55.8 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was recently voided by a Delaware judge. Musk’s 2018 pay package was voided in a ruling by Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick, who found that the deal was unfair to shareholders. After …

NBC News reports: NBC News found that at least 150 paid “Premium” subscriber X accounts and thousands of unpaid accounts have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content on X in recent months, often in apparent violation of X’s rules. The paid accounts posting the content all consistently posted antisemitic or pro-Nazi material. Examples included praise of Nazi soldiers, sharing of Nazi …