Elon Musk has turned on the reporter he hand picked to “expose” Twitter’s content moderation decisions after she … criticized his content moderation decisions. Writer Bari Weiss was hand-selected by Musk as one of the conduits for a multi-part expose, dubbed “The Twitter Files,” that purported to unveil a grand …
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Elon Musk sold around $3.6 billion worth of shares of his flagship company Tesla this week, despite reassuring investors in April that he had “no further TSLA sales planned” after he secured the funds to acquire Twitter in a $44 billion deal. The sale was revealed in an SEC filing …
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Programmer Jack Sweeney originally created the Twitter bot “@ElonJet” because he was a fan of Elon Musk. The success of @ElonJet prompted him to begin tracking other celebrity aircraft through the use of publicly available, open-source aviation data. Drake, Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Taylor Swift, and Russian oligarchs all got …
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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey took the blame for Twitter’s controversial content decisions that the platform made under his leadership, while warning of content control by governments and corporations. Dorsey started the statement in a Twitter thread but moved it to a blog post, explaining, “I don’t want to edit everything …
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“We don’t hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter,” tweeted conspiracy theorist and election denier Dinesh D’Souza in November, a few long weeks after Elon Musk acquired the platform. “Why? Because they were never kicked off in the first place.” Musk himself replied, “Correct.” Of course, …
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Reading the room is not one of Dave Chappelle’s sharpest skills. On Sunday, the comedian surprised the audience at the San Francisco stop on his joint tour with Chris Rock by bringing out Elon Musk as a special guest. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was how much his fans — …
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Twitter abruptly disbanded its Trust and Safety Council on Monday night, the Associated Press reported. The council, which was comprised of about 100 independent civil rights leaders and advocates from around the world, helped to improve safety on the social platform. Less than an hour before members of the council …
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Jimmy Kimmel knows a thing or two about landing jokes as a comedian. Elon Musk doesn’t. During the latest Jimmy Kimmel Live opening monologue, the late-night host took the tech billionaire to task for a failed joke he tweeted yesterday morning declaring that his pronouns are “Prosecute/Fauci.” “Which – on …
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“You shut the fuck up with your boos.” That was comedian Dave Chappelle’s response to the endless chorus of booing that reverberated through San Francisco’s Chase Center every time his special guest Elon Musk attempted to speak. Chappelle invited Musk onstage in front of 18,000 attendees who came to hear …
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Twitter is trying to make paid bluecheck verification happen again following its disastrous initial launch shortly after Elon Musk took over the reins at the company on Oct. 27. The program, which immediately verified anyone who paid $8 for the program, was paused within days following the proliferation of misinformation …
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