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Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute
09 Aug

Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute

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Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro has blocked in the country after claiming that the platform's owner had incited hatred and "violated" his own social network's rules. "Shame on Dictator Maduro," , who that the incumbent president had committed "major election fraud."Maduro, who also argued that his rivals were using the platform to stoke political unrest, said he greenlit a proposal by the national telecoms authority to "remove the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, from circulation in Venezuela for 10 days." That's according to the , which said its reporters in the country were unable to access X after the…
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Engadget Podcast: The Google search monopoly + ‘Industry’ creator interview
09 Aug

Engadget Podcast: The Google search monopoly + ‘Industry’ creator interview

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Google is officially a monopoly, according to a US court. But what does that really mean? This week, Devindra and Senior Editor Karissa Bell dive into the landmark Google antitrust case to explore how it could affect the future of search. Google claims it's simply delivering the best product, but clearly the court thinks otherwise. Also, we chat about X/Twitter's desperate lawsuit against advertisers who boycotted the social network.Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in…
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One of the ad industry groups being sued by X is ‘discontinuing’
09 Aug

One of the ad industry groups being sued by X is ‘discontinuing’

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An ad industry group named in X’s antitrust lawsuit is “discontinuing,” two days after the social media company filed a lawsuit accusing major advertisers of an “illegal boycott” against the company. The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) is “discontinuing activities,” according to an email reported by Business Insider.GARM was created in 2019 to help set brand safety guidelines for major advertisers, and is part of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which was also named in . According to Business Insider, WFA CEO Stephan Loerke told members that GARM is a nonprofit with limited resources, but that the groups…
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Anti-hate group says Elon Musk continues to peddle election falsehoods on X unchecked
09 Aug

Anti-hate group says Elon Musk continues to peddle election falsehoods on X unchecked

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A new report from the British non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found X owner Elon Musk spread misinformation about the US election and the Democrats’ presidential campaign in 50 posts this year alone. His assertions continue to go unchecked on the platform, not even through its own "Community Notes" feature. CCDH's CEO Imran Ahmed says the absence of these grassroots fact-checks show “that his business is failing woefully to contain the kind of algorithmically-boosted incitement that we all know can lead to real-world violence, as we experienced on Jan. 6, 2021.”The report cites 50 posts made on Musk’s…
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X Is Boosting the Far Right’s UK Riots as Telegram Scrambles for Control
07 Aug

X Is Boosting the Far Right’s UK Riots as Telegram Scrambles for Control

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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 days now, Musk has sought to use his huge influence to suggest that diversity was causing the riots: “If incompatible cultures are brought together without assimilation, conflict is inevitable,” Musk wrote. Responding to a video of riots in Liverpool on Monday, Musk warned: “Civil war is…
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Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott
06 Aug

Elon Musk’s X Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Boycott

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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 key advertising coalition, Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), to boycott buying ads on X since Musk bought the company. The suit says this turn of events cost the company billions of dollars in revenue. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for violation of US antitrust law.The…
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X is reportedly closing its San Francisco office
05 Aug

X is reportedly closing its San Francisco office

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X will soon close its longtime San Francisco office and move employees to offices elsewhere in the Bay Area, according to an email from CEO Linda Yaccarino The New York Times. Yaccarino’s note to employees comes several weeks after Elon Musk threatened to move X’s headquarters out and into Austin, Texas.Yaccarino’s note, however, doesn’t seem to mention Texas. According to The New York Times, she told employees the closure will happen over the “next few weeks” and that employees will work out of “a shared engineering space in Palo Alto” that’s also used by xAI, as well as other “locations…
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Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco
05 Aug

Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco

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The social media company X is closing its San Francisco office “over the next few weeks,” according to an internal email sent out by CEO Linda Yaccarino earlier today. “This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the right one for our company in the long term,” Yaccarino wrote in the email, first reported by The New York Times.Employees in San Francisco reportedly will be moved to new locations in the Bay Area, “including the existing office in San Jose and a new engineering focused shared space with [xAI, Musk’s AI startup] in Palo Alto,”…
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Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk and X
02 Aug

Don Lemon is suing Elon Musk and X

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When Don Lemon's "premium" video hosting deal on X was canceled in March, a representative for the former CNN anchor . Nearly five months later, he's taking Musk and his platform to court, claiming he hasn't been paid.The former CNN anchor filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Musk and X, the reports. The suit pertains to an alleged payment agreement Lemon says Musk refuses to honor. Lemon filed his case in California Superior Court in San Francisco.Lemon claims that he agreed to produce a news and interview show on the X platform back in January. Lemon would receive $1.5 million…
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Here’s how to stop Grok’s AI models using your tweets for training
27 Jul

Here’s how to stop Grok’s AI models using your tweets for training

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There's word going around that X just enabled a setting that lets it train Grok on public tweets, as well as any interactions they have with the chatbot. That's not entirely true: a help page instructing users how to opt-out of X using their data to train Grok has been live since at least May. X just never exactly made it crystal clear that it was opting everyone into this, which is a sketchy move. If you don't want a bad chatbot to use your bad tweets for training, it's thankfully easy to switch that off.You just need to uncheck…
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