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Elon Musk has once again lost a court battle over his right to shitpost unfettered. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City has rejected the billionaire’s bid to end his 2018 agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that mandates legal oversight on some of Tesla-related tweets.DJ Right Winger Booted, Facebook Bites Twitter, and Four Day Work Weeks Work | Editor PicksMusk’s request to overturn the more than four year-old consent decree had already been struck down by one federal judge in New…

On Friday, Elon Musk announced that he’s stepping back as CEO of Twitter, and will soon be replaced by Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s former head of advertising. It’s a sensible choice for the platform. Advertisers fled Twitter during Musk’s tenure amidst skyrocketing hate speech and other objectionable content, and the company desperately needs big brands to come back if it’s going to make any money. There’s just one problem, at least if you’re a nut job: Yaccarino also has a gig at the World Economic Forum.The WEF is…

A federal judge slapped down a discrimination lawsuit against Twitter filed by former employees who said owner Elon Musk specifically targeted women for his mass layoffs.Twitter Verification is a Hot MessAt the tail end of last year, close to 100 female former Tweeps sued the company in a proposed class action claiming the company discriminated against them based on their gender. The suit said owner Musk was already known for his “sexist, demeaning, and hostile comments” against women. The women alleged Twitter primarily…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is now pushing users to have no regrets for the amount of time they spend on the app, in his newest push to make the app desirable and lure in advertisers. As Twitter’s advertising revenue dries up, Musk is continuously looking for ways to make the platform profitable, this time telling advertisers and Twitter users he wants Twitter to be “fun and interesting and informative.”How To Remove Followers From Twitter“The optimization for Twitter is: Maximize the unregretted user time,” Musk said at a…

The artist known as Grimes (real name Clare Boucher) has said that you’re totally free to use an AI-generated version of her voice to make new music, just as long as you give her a healthy 50 percent of the royalties that the track generates. This week, Grimes launched a new AI voice software, dubbed Elf.Tech, designed to help people duplicate her voice to create music. The platform, which Grimes unveiled in a Twitter thread Sunday, allows users to upload recordings of their own voice, which can then be Grimes-ified via…

Musk reportedly wrote: “So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?”Image: DCStockPhotography, zef art (Shutterstock)This is why we can’t have nice things. According to a series of emails sent to NPR, Elon Musk apparently threatened to assign the media outlet’s Twitter handle, @NPR, to another account. NPR previously fled Twitter after the outlet labelled it “state-affiliated media.”NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechNPR reported on the outlet’s communications…

Elon Musk has agreed to settle in a three-year-old defamation lawsuit brought against him by an outspoken critic of Tesla. The billionaire will pay out $10,000 to Randeep Hothi, concluding the drawn out court proceedings, according to multiple reports and a tweet from the plaintiff posted Monday.Tesla Investors Not Happy With Mr. Tweet's TweetsThe settlement comes about a year after Musk said Tesla would “never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose,” in a tweet thread aiming to attract…

Twitter founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey admitted he was wrong when he said that Elon Musk was the “singular solution” he trusted with the company and criticized his one-time friend for going through with his $44 billion takeover even after he got buyer’s remorse. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetOver on Twitter competitor Bluesky, a decentralized network similar to Mastodon that Dorsey helped start, the former Twitter leader struck a harshtone on the subject of Musk and said that it was important to build something new…

“I really would consider autonomous driving to be basically a solved problem,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said during the Q&A portion of a 2016 interview at a Vox Recode conference. “A Model S and Model X at this point can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person, right now,” he added. Or...did he?Tesla Investors Not Happy With Mr. Tweet's TweetsDefense lawyers in a civil case surrounding Tesla driver Walter Huang’s fatal 2017 car crash have claimed that Musk’s apparent 2016 statements on Autopilot, and others,…

Can you truly have an alt account if everyone in the world knows about it? The best answer may come from Twitter CEO Elon Musk, whose second alt account was revealed on Tuesday. The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?As news of Musk’s suspected alt account continued reverberating through Twitter on Tuesday, the Platformer newsletter revealed that the Twitter CEO had another alt account. Platformer stated that Musk’s second alt account is the handle “@e,” one of Twitter’s rare and highly coveted one-letter…