Jenna Ortega revealed that she deactivated her account on X (formerly Twitter) after receiving a number of explicit pictures, including at least one photo of herself generated by artificial intelligence. “Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? … Read more
It’s no secret that Jalopnik isn’t exactly Elon Musk’s biggest fan. Sure, he’s responsible for the most important car of the 21st century, and SpaceX does some neat stuff when it’s not ruining the environment, but he’s also a bigoted piece of shit. Then again, our staff is a bunch of radical leftists who believe … Read more
People on social media are calling out “embarrassing” behavior by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who went out of her way to repeatedly mispronounce Vice President Kamala Harris’ name during an appearance on CNN. On Thursday’s broadcast of “NewsNight With Abby Phillip,” Mace criticized Harris over several policy issues, and she accused the Democratic presidential nominee … Read more
Twitter, now rebranded as X, has been ordered to pay €550,000 (approximately ₹5 crore) to former employee Gary Rooney after an unfair dismissal case. According to a report in Fortune, the decision, handed down by Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission, is the largest compensation ever awarded by the agency. Rooney, who had worked at Twitter’s Ireland … Read more
Screenshot: Khorne Group The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle has hardly been an international sales success, thanks to poor hydrogen infrastructure, expense, and polarizing design, but it proved successful to Ukrainian forces which scavenged parts from the hydrogen car to create the world’s smallest hydrogen bomb. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s … Read more
The United Auto Workers union, which represents some 400,000 workers in the automobile, aerospace, and agriculture industries, on Tuesday said that it filed federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The charges follow what the UAW describes as “attempts to threaten and intimidate workers” that arose during a conversation between Trump and Musk, … Read more
Former President Donald Trump has broken a one-year hiatus from X — the social media site formerly known as Twitter — by posting a new Hollywood-style campaign video that depicts him as the nation’s hero. The video includes footage from the FBI raid at his Florida estate to recover classified documents and audio of Trump … Read more
Instead of focusing on Tesla’s plummeting profits and sales slump, CEO Elon Musk is busy suing various companies and organizations for taking issue with his bigotry. The lawsuits are generally laughable, but he does have an ace up his sleeve — a Texas judge who’s proven to be incredibly friendly to Musk. NPR reports the … Read more
As asylum centers are boarding up ahead of another predicted day of violent protests across the UK on Wednesday, X owner Elon Musk has stoked tensions by labeling UK prime minister Keir Starmer “#TwoTierKier” and spreading a far-right conspiracy theory that claims white rioters are being dealt with more severely than minorities by police. For … Read more
X today filed a lawsuit against a group of major advertisers for allegedly conspiring to withhold advertising dollars from the social media platform, which, since Elon Musk’s takeover, has been seen as more amenable to hosting controversial content. The suit, filed in federal court in Texas, says dozens of advertisers followed the recommendation of a … Read more
