“You’ve seen nothing yet,” tweeted Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on Sunday. She was responding to another X user who had told her, “Your downfall is so sad,” a reaction to her continued attacks on transgender people. Rowling promised that worse was in store. “Wait til I hit rock bottom. …
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The beloved sitcom Seinfeld was famously never canceled, because co-creator Jerry Seinfeld and his fellow cast members decided they should walk away after nine seasons, leaving viewers wanting more. But for about a decade, Seinfeld has continuously complained that “political correctness” is stifling comedy of the kind that made him …
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Tesla’s stock crashed this week following the announcement that the electric vehicle company would be laying off 10 percent of its staff. If things weren’t already looking grim for Elon Musk’s flagship company, it was just ordered to recall nearly 4,000 of its recently released Cybertrucks over an accelerator pedal …
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As anticipated by industry observers, Tesla on Monday announced that it was was laying off more than 10 percent of its workforce, shedding around 14,000 jobs worldwide. CEO Elon Musk announced the cuts in a memo to the entire company, writing that they “will enable us to be lean, innovative, …
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A judge on Friday moved to halt an investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) into the liberal watchdog journalism organization Media Matters, issuing a preliminary injunction in the case. Calling Media Matters a “radical left-wing” and “anti-free speech organization,” Paxton claimed to be investigating “potential fraudulent activity” by …
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Disney argued that it had the right to fire Gina Carano, the actress who played a bounty hunter on The Mandalorian, following her controversial social media posts that allegedly trivialized the Holocaust. Carano filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in February, where she claimed she was fired for sharing her conservative …
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Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street …
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Elon Musk dubbed an X/Twitter post “extremely concerning” after it alleged large numbers of voters were registering in the U.S. without IDs, but election officials in Texas and Arizona were quick to call him out for spreading misinformation. The post, made by one of Musk’s favorite accounts @EndWokeness (a far-right …
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After announcing his intention to offer free blue checkmarks to high profile users on X, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk has implemented the plan — but not without some criticism. In March, Musk confirmed that X would be giving free Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of …
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Rep. Nancy Mace incorrectly claimed that crime is “skyrocketing” across the United States under President Joe Biden, prompting X (formerly Twitter) to issue a community note correcting her. That note was later removed by the platform. “You’re seeing, since Joe Biden took office, crime skyrocketing all across the country, and …
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