NEW DELHI: Twitter’s Public Policy Director for India and South Asia has resigned to pursue other interests, the micro-blogging site confirmed in a statement. The company has also advertised a position for public policy director – India last week. This comes as the San-Francisco based firm is at the receiving end of the Indian government … Read more
Love is patient, but in this case, not so kind. Earlier this month, Samuel Foree, a Louisville-based wedding videographer, posted an edited version of one of his client’s recent wedding vows to his bride on Instagram. The groom’s raunchy — and seemingly sole — vow to his bride has since gone so viral that it … Read more
A federal judge ruled Friday that Twitter, now known as X, breached its contract with employees when it failed to pay millions in promised bonuses last year. The company promised employees half of their potential bonuses both before and after tech billionaire Elon Musk purchased the company in 2022, but never paid, according to the … Read more
Threads — Meta’s rival to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter — launched in “countries across” Europe on Thursday. “Today we’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. “Welcome everyone.” European Union (EU) officials said in July the launch of the platform in Europe would be delayed because of … Read more
A federal judge warned Elon Musk that he will be forced to testify in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation if he does not voluntarily agree to answer questions from the agency about his 2022 purchase of the platform then known as Twitter. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler reportedly dismissed Musk’s argument that the … Read more
Musk has appeared to acknowledge the problem. This week, when an X user asked if xAI would be working to reduce Grok’s political bias, he replied, “Yes.” But tuning a chatbot to express views that satisfy his followers might prove challenging—especially when much of xAI’s training data may be drawn from X, a hotbed of … Read more
John Oliver dedicated the final episode of 2023 of his show, “Last Week Tonight,” to taking down billionaire Elon Musk, poking fun at his idiosyncrasies and warning of the potential danger that could come from his immense power. For 30 minutes, Oliver touched on Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, Musk’s hard turn to the right politically, … Read more
The relationship between Elon Musk and the European Union deteriorated further on Monday, with the bloc launching a formal investigation into the way X has been run since the billionaire took over last year. Senior officials from the European Commission said they were concerned about a range of new features that have been added to … Read more
The European Union opened “formal proceedings” into X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday to determine whether the platform has violated the bloc’s new online regulations. The EU’s executive arm, the European Commission, is investigating whether X breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in regard to its “risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency … Read more
