The great X-odus is under way. More than 1 million new users have joined the social media platform Bluesky since the US election. Many are seeking to escape Elon Musk’s X amid warnings from anti-hate speech campaign groups and the EU about misinformation and extremism on the platform. But what exactly is Bluesky, why it […]
OK, it’s time to confess – I have subscribed to Elon Musk’s social network X (formerly Twitter). “Why are you giving money to the world’s richest man?” shouted my friend. Admittedly, she had a point, but I did it for two reasons. Firstly, because I was aware of a few fake profiles of me floating […]
Twitter has changed its brand and logo from its famous blue bird to “X”. The new white X on a black background has replaced the blue bird on the desktop version of the social network, although is yet to appear on the mobile app. “Tweets” will also be replaced, according to Twitter’s owner Elon Musk, […]
Ten million users signed up for Meta’s newly launched Threads app in its first seven hours, the company’s chief Mark Zuckerberg says. He pitched the app as a “friendly” rival to Twitter, which was bought by Elon Musk in October. Experts say Threads could attract Twitter users unhappy with recent changes to the platform. Threads […]
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, announced that the next installment of the “Twitter Files” about the former head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who retired Saturday, will be released “later this week.” On Sunday, Juanita Broaddrick, who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct, tweeted, “Waiting … […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk conducted a poll on the platform asking if he should step down from leading the company, and a majority of users support his departure as company head. Musk shared a poll to his Twitter account Sunday night asking his users if he should leave his position as head of the social […]
The new Twitter Files, part six drop from journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday sheds new light on an otherwise unfolding landscape of how the FBI was in “constant” contact with the tech giant to censor, in a “pervasive” manner, almost unilaterally users on the right, some on the left, but nonetheless both users big and […]
Twitter’s former head of safety Yoel Roth was seemingly meeting with the FBI on a weekly basis around the 2020 election, according to the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” from journalist Matt Taibbi.Taibbi shared a screenshot of Slack messages from after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, in which Roth jokingly says […]
Journalist Bari Weiss released the second installment of “The Twitter Files” on Thursday night, outlining the company’s “secret blacklists.” Among the individuals targeted by Twitter were prominent conservative commentators such as Dan Bongino of Fox News and Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA. The former was targeted with a “search blacklist,” while the latter was […]
Elon Musk rolled out his internal probe into how Twitter handled the Hunter Biden laptop story on Friday, showing extreme lengths the company went through to protect President Joe Biden. In a thread from journalist Matt Taibbi, endorsed by Musk, leaked documents suggest the company disproportionately favored Democrats on content moderation before the billionaire took […]
Twitter users jumped on tech mogul Elon Musk’s tweet Monday attacking the media for being “against free speech.” At Monday’s White House press conference, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that the Biden administration is “keeping a close eye” on Twitter after Reuters’ Andrea Shalal asked what is being done to prevent the platform from becoming […]
Half of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website. A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022. Seven additional advertisers have slowed their advertising to almost nothing, […]
