Some users say Musk gesture was the last straw
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While the debate rages on over whether Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute at an inaugural event, many Reddit communities have decided to go ahead and ban links to X, including some with millions of members. Some of largest subreddits involved are sports communities, including r/NBA, which has 15 million...
Company says social media accounts can't be transferred because Alex Jones never owned them
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The sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to the Onion is on hold pending a hearing next month —and if it does go through, it might not include the platform's accounts on X. Elon Musk's social media company has filed a "limited objection" to the sale, arguing...
Social media platform draws at least a million new users in week following US election
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Social media site Bluesky has gained at least a million new users in the week since the US election, as some X users look for an alternative platform to post their thoughts and engage with others online. Bluesky said Wednesday that its total users surged to 15 million, up from...
Horror author leaves Elon Musk's social media site for Meta's Threads
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The prolific Stephen King is known for his extra-long novels, but the exit message he posted Thursday on X was short and sweet. "I'm leaving Twitter. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic," the horror author wrote, using the platform's former name,...
Trump Media stock has more than quadrupled since September
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Donald Trump's Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk's X, thanks to a recent run-up in the shares of the parent company of the former president's social media platform. Trump Media and Technology Group is now valued at over $10 billion after its shares more...
Iran's supreme leader has had multiple social media accounts for years
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The social platform X has suspended a new account on behalf of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that posted messages in Hebrew, the AP reports. The account was suspended early Monday with a brief note appended to it saying: "X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules....
Platform can now be reinstated after a nationwide shutdown of more than a month
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The Brazilian Supreme Court's Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown , according to a statement posted on the court's website.
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Investment firm Fidelity's shares of social media site were worth nearly $20M in October '22; now, around $4.2M
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When Elon Musk bought the former Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, the investment firm Fidelity held some $19.66 million worth of shares. Now, two years later, there's been a bit of a shift—and not in Musk's favor. TechCrunch reports that Fidelity's latest valuation...
Platform's first transparency report under owner Elon Musk released Wednesday
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Before Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform released a transparency report every six months. Only now, two years after Musk's October 2022 takeover, has the platform now known as X released its first such report under its billionaire owner. At 15 pages, Wednesday's Global Transparency Report is...
But company says it will continue to fight Brazil judge's order
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Elon Musk's satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order to block the billionaire's social media platform, X, the AP reports. Starlink said in a statement posted on X that it will heed the judge's...
Ruling says platform encourages posts with 'extremism, hate speech and anti-democratic discourse'
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A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country, according to a copy of his decision. The move escalates the monthslong feud between the two men...
Nation's high court gives him 24 hours to appoint a legal rep to avoid seeing X suspended there
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The clock is ticking for Elon Musk, at least as it pertains to keeping his X social media platform functioning in Brazil. That's because the South American nation's Supreme Court has given the billionaire 24 hours to appoint a legal representative for X in Brazil, or risk seeing...
Analysts say Musk might have to sell Tesla shares to keep platform afloat
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Elon Musk apparently hasn't had much success luring advertisers back to X. Quartz reports that according to MediaRadar, a company that tracks ad spending, advertising on the platform in the first half of this year is down 24% year-on-year. Advertisers reportedly spent around $744 million on the platform in...
He asks: 'Are you better off now than you were when I was president?'
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After a break of almost a year, Donald Trump resumed posting on X on Monday, hours ahead of an interview with Elon Musk. The former president was barred from what was then Twitter after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. His account was reinstated after Musk acquired the platform...
He accuses Musk of inciting 'civil war'
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, accusing Elon Musk of inciting "civil war," has banned X in the country for 10 days. In a speech Thursday, the Venezuelan leader said he signed a resolution from the national communications regulator "to take social network X, formerly known as Twitter, out...
X files antitrust lawsuit over allegedly illegal boycott
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"We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war," Elon Musk said in a post on X Tuesday after the social media company filed an antitrust lawsuit against an advertising industry coalition. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Texas accuses the World Federation of Advertisers and...
Owner of social media company says he has 'no choice' but to relocate X's HQ to Texas
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From the start, Elon Musk's relationship with San Francisco was tinged with tension , and now, it looks like he's severing ties for good. The New York Times has seen a memo from Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter that's owned...
He seemingly broke X's own rules against deepfakes, even regarding parody
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Last week, Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign with a video that boasted "we choose freedom—the freedom not just to get by, but to get ahead," among other liberties that the vice president vows to protect if elected to the Oval Office. On Friday evening, Elon Musk...
Former CNN figure was supposed to host a show on X
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Don Lemon has sued Elon Musk over their collapsed deal to have the former CNN anchor host a show on the X platform, reports the New York Times . Lemon says Musk promised him a salary of $1.5 million annually, plus a share of ad revenue, according to the lawsuit....
'We scared @elonmusk,' organizer claims after massive fundraiser
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White Dudes for Harris raised more than $4 million for the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, then had its X account suspended. The group had celebrated its wildly successful livestream fundraiser on the platform, writing , "This is the start of something special and we couldn'...
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