Elon Musk’s X sues Media Matters over ad controversy, billionaire says ‘first of many’
Elon Musk's X Corp is suing the liberal media advocacy group Media…
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elon musk lawsuit hate speech: ‘Ridiculous’ US lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Corp should be dismissed: hate speech watchdog
A nonprofit that monitors online hate speech urged a US federal judge to throw out what it called a "ridiculous" lawsuit by Elon Musk's X Corp to stifle free expression.X, formerly Twitter, sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate in July, accusing it of trying to drive advertisers away through a "scare campaign" showing hate speech and other harmful content appeared to be overwhelming the platform.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Senior Management…
Backlash Spreads Over Elon Musk’s Endorsement of Antisemitic Post
Outcry over unchecked antisemitic content and commentary on social media site X, some of it endorsed by the platform's owner Elon Musk, reached a tipping point on Friday, with large advertisers such as Apple Inc. pulling ads and the White House chastising the billionaire. Musk, who regularly engages with antisemitic users on X, agreed with a post that said Jewish people hold a “dialectical hatred” of white people. “You have said the actual truth,” Musk responded. The White House called Musk's reply an “unacceptable” act…
Elon Musk promises “major update” in recommendation algorithm of X to highlight smaller accounts
Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) has recently revealed that the recommendation algorithm of the platform will be receiving a major update, which will result in a visibility boost for small accounts and posts outside of a user's friends and followers network. Lately, X has been receiving new features at an accelerated rate, many of which are targeted towards attracting creators to post original content. This new algorithm change is believed to be a similar attempt by the social media platform.Musk posted on X,…
Elon Musk apologizes after Piyush Goyal’s visit to Tesla Fremont factory: ‘My apologies, honor to have…’
World's richest man and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has apologised to India's commerce minister Piyush Goyal for not being able to be with him during a visit to the…
After Twitter rebranding, Elon Musk takes @X handle from user; offers merch in return
Ever since its rebranding, X (formerly known as Twitter) appears to be caught in new controversies every day. After headlines reported on authorities putting a temporary halt to the removal of the Twitter logo from the company headquarters in San Francisco, now a new controversy has engulfed the Elon Musk-owned platform. A user, who held possession of the coveted @x username, has reported that it was taken from him by the company, and he was only offered some merchandise and a tour of the company along with a meeting…
Elon Musk says X, the new Twitter, will have just the Dark mode soon
It has become hard to predict what goes on in the mind of X (formerly known as Twitter) owner Elon Musk ever since he muscled an entire rebranding campaign onto the platform within just 3 days. And the successful maneuvering of the move has perhaps made the billionaire even more 'unhinged', at least that is what social media is insinuating. Yesterday, he announced in a tweet, that going forward, the platform will only support dark mode, bringing an instant worry to all those who do not prefer it since reading…
Elon Musk wants to turn tweets into ‘X’s’. But changing language is not quite so simple
Elon Musk may want to send “tweet” back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay — at least for now.For one, the word is still plastered all over the site formerly known as Twitter. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says “tweet” to publish it. To repost it, you still tap “retweet.” But it's more than that. With “tweets,” Twitter accomplished in just a few years something few companies have done in a lifetime: It became a verb and implanted itself…
Twitter, Elon Musk and the X: Legal controversy set to hit the new logo adoption
The rebranding exercise has come to an end and for all intents and purposes, Twitter is now X. Part of company owner Elon Musk's grander vision of creating a super app, X is now here to create its own identity, and all of it was done in a mere three-day period. There is one little question many are wondering. Rebranding a company as large as Twitter usually takes weeks if not months. So, was Musk rushing things and cutting corners with his haphazard logo change? A new report has highlighted some irregularities around the…
Why Elon Musk’s ‘X’ will struggle to become a Chinese-style super-app
Elon Musk is rebranding his Twitter platform as "X" and wants to create a super-app where users will do all their finances as well as their socialising.His inspiration is China's WeChat, which dominates the Chinese internet with chat, payments, games and a host of other functions in its walled garden. Musk has hinted that this kind of "everything app" is his goal for the X platform but experts reckon he will struggle. - What is WeChat? -The app was launched by China's big tech behemoth Tencent in 2011 to replace an…