‘What is to stop any country from controlling the entire Internet’: Musk on Australia injunction on church stabbing videos

Sydney: Elon Musk said Tuesday his social media platform X will appeal against an Australian injunction forcing it to take down videos of a church stabbing in Sydney.Australia’s internet watchdog secured an injunction late Monday, forcing X to hide videos that allegedly show a Sydney bishop being slashed in the head during a live-streamed sermon.X … Read more

One-Camera Motovlogging, Now A Reality

Next time you watch a motorcycle video on YouTube, try to count all the cameras at play. One on the helmet for that POV shot, one on the bars looking back up at the presenter, maybe even one in a chase van — and, more often than not, an Insta360 X3 mounted somewhere on the … Read more

Musk says House has launched inquiry over X-Brazil battle

Elon Musk said Thursday that the House has launched an inquiry into his country’s work in Brazil after the tech mogul claimed that Brazilian leaders illegally demanded he ban members of parliament and journalists from his social media platform X and he refused. Musk announced that X has “received an inquiry from the U.S. House … Read more

All You Need To Know About Viral “Click Here” Trend On Social Media

Since last Saturday, X (formerly Twitter) has been flooded with the viral “Click Here” trend, catching everyone’s attention. While many have been joining the bandwagon of this buzzing trend, numerous others remain puzzled about the new feature. Notably, major political parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party, Aam Aadmi Party, and Congress have also actively … Read more

Elon Musk’s X to pay legal bills for Brampton, Ont., doctor chastised over COVID-19 tweets

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 24, 2024 1:24 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Elon Musk’s X says it’s funding legal bills for a Canadian doctor previously chastised by regulators for her tweets about COVID-19. In a post to the X News account on Sunday morning, the … Read more

Elon Musk Gave Himself No Choice but to Open Source His Chatbot Grok

After suing OpenAI this month, alleging the company has become too closed, Elon Musk says he will release his “truth-seeking” answer to ChatGPT, the chatbot Grok, for anyone to download and use. “This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X today. That suggests his AI company, xAI, will … Read more

X revives policy targeting deadnaming, misgendering 

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, updated its abuse and harassment rules to revive regulations around content that misgenders or deadnames individuals.   The quiet update comes less than a year after the platform, under Musk’s ownership, revoked its ban on content that uses a transgender person’s name before they transitioned — known as … Read more

Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn’t Going Well

Soon after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, now called X, the platform faced a massive problem: Advertisers were fleeing. But that, the company alleges, was someone else’s fault. On Thursday that argument went before a federal judge, who seemed skeptical of the company’s allegations that a nonprofit’s research tracking hate speech on X had … Read more

Texas, Florida social media laws to come under microscope at Supreme Court

A new front in America’s culture wars will reach the Supreme Court on Monday as the justices hear two cases stemming from controversial laws in Texas and Florida regulating social media bans.   The laws aim to block social media companies from banning users based on their political views — even if users violate platform policies. … Read more