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The first episode of The Don Lemon Show premiered on Monday morning, showcasing a fiery interview with Elon Musk. The interview ultimately killed Don Lemon’s deal with X, in which the former CNN host promised to create exclusive content for the platform.Lemon did not shy away from hot-button issues with Musk. The two broached topics including X’s content moderation, Musk’s opinions on DEI and woke politics, and even the billionaire’s alleged drug abuse. Lemon pushed back against many of Musk’s typical narratives he…

Months after losing a slew of advertisers after he publicly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory, X owner Elon Musk continued his “I am not an antisemite” tour on Monday with a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp memorial.  During his private tour of the memorial, Musk laid a wreath and participated in a remembrance ceremony. “It hits you much more in the heart when you see it in person … it will take a few days to sink in, frankly,” Musk told right-wing Jewish podcaster Ben Shapiro during an…

Photo: Jeff Spicer (Getty Images)Somehow toxic fandom has returned and at the mere mention of Star Wars and women, no less. Nonsensical virulent misogynistic notions abound as Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and the director of the studios’ upcoming Rey film Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy have found themselves in the crosshairs of troll pundits and anti-woke platformers over women playing in the Star Wars sandbox. Mind you, the sandbox wouldn’t still be there if not for Kennedy.James Mangold on his Future Star Wars Film | io9…

“Get woke, go broke,” a favorite rallying cry of conservative culture warriors, echoed far and wide in 2023 as one company after another was targeted for a boycott over supposed leftist tendencies. Raging right-wingers bashed cans of Bud Light, trashed displays at Target stores, and backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a feud with Disney. What did all this sound and fury amount to? Little more than a collective temper tantrum. The corporate behemoths who faced these outrage campaigns were never going anywhere, and…

The Daily Wire has descended into unrestrained chaos as an ongoing spat between its founder, Ben Shapiro, and one of the right-wing outlet’s biggest names, Candace Owens. The pair’s disagreements over the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas have now spilled into a public fight on social media.  The clash between Shapiro and Owens has been brewing for weeks now. Shapiro, who is Jewish, has been a prominent supporter of Israel’s siege on Gaza in retaliation for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas militants. Owens,…

Twitter’s head of trust and safety, former diehard Elon Musk fan Ella Irwin, publicly resigned from her position Thursday just hours after her boss publicly rebuked his own content moderation team. Irwin’s staff had taken action against a transphobic film by Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?Though the exact reasons for Irwin’s departure remain unclear, her public announcement came the same day CEO Elon Musk sided with Daily Wire CEO ​​Jeremy Boreing over a content moderation…

Turns out spewing conservative vitriol across your social media platforms can make you a few enemies. Right-wing personality Matt Walsh’s Twitter account was hacked, and the alleged culprit has now said that it was because he had nothing better to do.How To Remove Followers From TwitterIn an interview with Wired, Doomed—the hacker’s alias—told the outlet that he was bored and was “stirring up some drama” when he hacked Walsh’s Twitter account last night. Doomed claims he took control of Walsh’s social media account and…

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source...for some reason.How To Set Up Private Relay on iCloud+It would appear that Musk is true to his word and actually did release Twitter’s recommendation algorithm on GitHub, as well as a write-up from the Twitter Team describing what the code algorithm actually does on Twitter’s blog. Twitter claims that, at its core, the algorithm that recommends…

Last year, Elon Musk changed Twitter’s verified program from a quasi-signal that a user is notable to a pay-for-checkmark $8 free-for-all. Immediately, trolls and comedians seized on the opportunity, making verified fake accounts for politicians, reminding people of Chiquita Banana’s involvement in genocide, and arranging a pretend, but disgusting, conversation between Ben Shapiro and Ted Cruz.The most significant fallout, though, came with a tweet from a user pretending to be drug manufacturer Eli Lily. After the user…

The list comes from Twitter engineers monitoring the site’s recommendation algorithm.Image: Tom Williams-Pool (Getty Images), Phillip Faraone (Getty Images), Jason Kempin (Getty Images)As us plebeians are getting our legacy blue checkmarks yanked out of our hands and CEO Elon Musk tweets about “treating everyone equally,” I regret to inform you that there is a shadowy group of 35 VIPs that Twitter has been pushing onto your timeline.According to a report from Platformer, Twitter isn’t really interested in treating…