George Soros

For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon Musk have complained the man is a racist. He’s posted countless dog whistles, liked disturbing tweets, and used his platform to boost white nationalists, but he’s always managed to walk right up to the line of plausible deniability. But the body of evidence grows, and this week, for just a moment, the gloves came off.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetOn Wednesday, Musk endorsed a tweet that said Jewish communities have been pushing “hatred…

Former President Donald Trump released a clip of a fake Twitter spaces event Wednesday where he used what appeared to be the deepfaked voices of Elon Musk, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, a coughing Dick Cheney, Satan, and, yes, Adolf Hitler, to mock Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The bizarre two-minute clip, which was originally uploaded to Rumble before being shared to other platforms like Instagram, was meant as a direct shot at DeSantis’ own glitch-filled Twitter Spaces event where he announced he was officially running…

Elon Musk told CNBC's David Faber on Tuesday that he doesn't care if his inflammatory tweets scare advertisers away from Twitter."I'll say what I want, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it," said Musk, who owns Twitter.Musk has for years tweeted controversial items, including conspiracy theories and comments his critics have called broadly discriminatory. His defense comes a day Musk caught renewed criticism for a tweet in which he likened liberal billionaire and Democratic donor George Soros to X-Men…

Vice Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, becoming the latest digital media giant to throw in the towel after years of economic struggles. Robinhood App Lays Off 9% of StaffThe company, which owns emblematic websites such as Vice, Motherboard, and Refinery, announced that it had filed for bankruptcy in a press release on Monday after months of failing to find a buyer. In the announcement, Vice Media stated that a consortium of its lenders, made up of Fortress…

George Soros may want to to hack the atmosphere to refreeze the Arctic.Unfortunately, that’s not a line from a shitty email sent by your MAGA aunt. And the Soros’s interest may signal renewed investment from powerful billionaires into a practice scientists have long been on the fence about.Geoengineering—a blanket term for various theoretical methods to hack the planet, but usually used to refer to methods involving aerosols that reduce how much sunlight hits Earth—is one of the most tiptoed-around topics in climate…

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he would testify next week before Congress, setting up a high-profile discussion with lawmakers he sought to court before his crypto exchange collapsed into bankruptcy.Mr. Bankman-Fried said on Twitter he would appear before the House Committee on Financial Services. The committee has a hearing scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET to investigate the collapse of FTX. Mr. Bankman-Fried will most likely testify remotely, according to a person familiar with the…

Photo: Aonprom Photo (Shutterstock)Self-described involuntary celibates lurking in the community’s largest forum are escalating their violent rhetoric according to a new report released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The report found terms and keywords associated with acts of mass violence on the forum shot up 59% over the past year while approval of sexual violence against women on the site were nearly universal.CCDH researchers analyzed more than a million posts over the past 18 months on the internet’s…

The overturning of Roe v. Wade has put a spotlight on a small manufacturer of abortion pills, which are emerging as a flashpoint between advocates and opponents of the procedure. Abortion-rights advocates have for decades lobbied for more access to mifepristone, the abortion medication that Danco Laboratories LLC manufactures under the brand name Mifeprex and sells for about $50 a pill. They want the Food and Drug Administration to remove safety restrictions on the drug, make it available without a prescription or expand…

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Sept. 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Meta’s longtime business chief, Sheryl Sandberg, is leaving the company.“It is time for me to write the next chapter of my life. I am not entirely sure what the future will bring – I have learned no one ever is. But I know it will include focusing more on my foundation and philanthropic work,” she said. Sandberg, whose foundation is geared toward…