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X accused of using EU user data to train Grok without consent
07 Aug

X accused of using EU user data to train Grok without consent

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Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is taking Elon Musk's X to court. According to Irish broadcaster RTE, the commission has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International over concerns on how Europeans' public posts on X are being used to train the company's artificial intelligence tools. The data protection watchdog is especially worried that European users' data is being used to train the next version of Grok that Musk previously said will be released sometime this month.In July, X rolled out a change that automatically activated a setting for all users, allowing the website to use their public posts on…
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X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform
07 Aug

X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform

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X, whose top executives have long railed against advertisers who fled the platform amid concerns over hate speech, is now also suing them. X has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and several of its members, including Mars, Unilever and CVS Health, CEO Linda Yaccarino said in an shared on X.According to Yaccarino, the group engaged in an “illegal boycott” of X. “The consequence - perhaps the intent - of this boycott was to seek to deprive X’s users, be they sports fans, gamers, journalists, activists, parents or political and corporate leaders, of 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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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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X is working on a way to block links in replies
20 Jul

X is working on a way to block links in replies

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X is developing a new feature that could help address spam posts on its website. According to Nima Owji, an independent app researcher who's unearthed several unreleased X features in the past, the platform formerly known as Twitter is working on the ability to disable links in replies. Based on the image Owji posted, users will be able to tick a box for the option if they don't want people to be able to respond with a link to their posts.Christopher Stanley, the Senior Director for Security Engineering at X, confirmed the feature's existence in a response to a post…
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X is in hot water in the EU over blue checkmarks and ads
15 Jul

X is in hot water in the EU over blue checkmarks and ads

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is the latest notable tech company to land in trouble with the . The , the bloc’s executive arm, has of an investigation. It claims that X has violated the in a number of ways.The platform’s approach to paid verification has come into the EU’s crosshairs. Officials say that the practice “does not correspond to industry practice and deceives users.” It added that, since anyone can pay to get a blue checkmark, it’s difficult for folks to determine the authenticity of accounts (a can tell you which accounts are verified because of notability and which paid for a checkmark). The…
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Elon Musk escapes paying $500 million to former Twitter employees
11 Jul

Elon Musk escapes paying $500 million to former Twitter employees

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The social media platform formerly known as Twitter has been at the center of from the very beginning of Elon Musk's takeover. One such suit relates to the more than 6,000 employees laid off by Musk following his acquisition of the company – and his alleged failure to pay them their full severance. Yesterday, Musk notched over his former employees.The case in question is a class-action filed by former Twitter employee Courtney McMillian. The complaint argued that under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Twitter Severance Plan owed laid off workers three months of pay. They received…
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X is making live streaming a premium feature
21 Jun

X is making live streaming a premium feature

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X will soon be moving the ability to live stream behind its premium paywall, the company announced. The change will make X the only major social platform to charge for the feature, which is currently free on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch and TikTok.“Starting soon, only Premium subscribers will be able to livestream (create live video streams) on X,” the company said. “This includes going live from an encoder with X integration,” an apparent reference to X’s game streaming capabilities.X didn’t offer an explanation for the change. The company has used additional features, like post editing, longform writing, and ad-free feeds…
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News on social media is a fractured mess, Pew study indicates
12 Jun

News on social media is a fractured mess, Pew study indicates

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Pew Research and the Knight Foundation just put out a pair of lengthy reports on how Americans are experiencing news and politics on social media. There are a number of noteworthy stats in the research but, for me, it mostly underscores that news distribution is kind of a mess.It’s not that news has disappeared from X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, but the way that most users are encountering news content is vastly different from platform to platform. And much of what people say they are seeing is not coming from journalists and media organizations but influencers other unconnected accounts.Perhaps unsurprisingly,…
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X is officially making likes (mostly) private for everyone
12 Jun

X is officially making likes (mostly) private for everyone

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Thanks to X showing what its users "like" on its platform, politicians and public personalities have been caught looking at salacious and unsavory tweets in the past. Now, the platform formerly known as Twitter is making likes mostly private, and according to company chief Elon Musk, it's an important change so that people can "like posts without getting attacked for doing so." The company originally launched the ability to hide the likes tab as a perk for X Premium subscribers last year. "[K]eep spicy likes private," X said when it announced the new feature.This week we’re making Likes private for…
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