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Image Source : INDIA TV Elon Musk Elon Musk is still in the firing mode at Twitter amid the Thanksgiving festivities, as several coders who were brought back after a massive layoff as part of a "knowledge transition", are being shown the door again in the name of "code review". Ikuhiro Ihara, a highly-respected Twitter coder who made the transition from 140-character…

A verified Twitter account claiming to be Jesus Christ has taken over the internet. After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the hot debate that has been ruling social media and headlines is whether his decision to charge USD 8 for a verified account is acceptable.Amongst the ongoing chaos, a verified Twitter account claiming to be Jesus Christ has taken over the internet. Ever since Elon Musk announced a fee of USD 8 for a verified account, anticipations started looming large on how the company is going to go about it. The…

Anyone could have seen the blow coming. What the world didn’t expect was quite how much Alex Jones would have to pay for weaponizing disinformation and piling misery onto the Sandy Hook families as they mourned their lost loved ones. Jones was found liable for defaming the parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary almost a year ago, in November 2021, when Connecticut judge Barbara Bellis issued a default judgment against the world’s most notorious shock jock and conspiracy theorist. In reality, most knew Jones…

What took you by surprise as you learnt more about Soli Sorabjee in the course of doing your research for this book?While researching the book, I was surprised by two things in particular. First of all, I was quite interested to see Sorabjee’s win-loss ratio as a lawyer. As a private lawyer, he won around 50% of his cases but as a law officer, he won around 70% of his cases. These were, of course, cases which were reported in the law reports, and I collected the data myself. In my book, I have offered some possible…

Florida's law remains blocked, and the state is keenly interested in the outcome of the Texas battle. Florida on Wednesday filed a Supreme Court brief supporting Texas, and the Florida brief was cosigned by 11 other states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, and South Carolina."Amici states have a strong interest in defending the regulatory authority of sovereign states in this area," the Florida brief said. "Indeed, many states have enacted, or are considering,…

From the moment Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter and impose upon it his version of free speech, speculation swirled about whether he would let Donald Trump, the ultimate Twitter scofflaw, return to the platform. Well, the suspense is over. On Tuesday, Musk confirmed what most people suspected, announcing at a Financial Times conference that he would “reverse the permanent ban” of the former president’s account. Trump, you will recall, got booted from Twitter on January 6, 2021, after his tweets during the…

For all the furore about which way Elon Musk might tilt US political discourse after getting the keys to Twitter, his biggest challenges may emerge across the Pacific.Asia, home to more than half the world's population, is Twitter's biggest growth opportunity and arguably a far thornier challenge. If the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire makes good on promises to scrap censorship, he'll encounter a plethora of perplexing regulations, wielded by sometimes authoritarian governments, pushed to the limits by a horde of first-time…

Less than a month since he bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc., billionaire Elon Musk is now poised to acquire the micro-blogging platform. Mint explores what could lie ahead for the platform once the world’s richest man is at the helm. What are Musk’s plans for Twitter? Between a statement from Musk on 26 April, polls he has conducted over the past few weeks, and other public statements, it seems clear that the world’s richest man wants to make Twitter a bastion for…