The first thing to know about Community Notes on Elon Musk’s tweets: there ought to be a lot more of them. Community Notes, the Twitter/X fact-checks formerly known as Birdwatch, are often touted as one of the few good things to have survived the first...
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October 12, 2024 albert
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Amid a surge of political misinformation across the internet, X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk has taken to his own platform to share a manipulated video of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign video. The Tesla founder and billionaire reposted the video Friday afternoon featuring an AI...
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July 29, 2024 albert
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Another day, another unpaid severance lawsuit against Twitter/X and Elon Musk. Former Twitter executive Nick Caldwell is suing the social media platform for approximately $ 19.3 million in withheld entitlements, joining a slew of similar claims which have arisen since Musk took over in 2022....
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April 4, 2024 albert
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Grok, the AI assistant on X (formerly Twitter), launched on Friday for Premium+ subscribers (those who pay $ 16/month) and has already spun a flurry of conversation. Nearly immediately, users noticed that Grok is “woke”; it doesn’t share its creator Elon Musk’s right-wing political or...
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December 10, 2023 albert
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Ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $ 44 billion last year, it’s been a widely agreed upon stance that he greatly overpaid for the social media platform. However, the amount in which he overpaid seems to be widening post-acquisition. According to Fidelity, Twitter is...
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May 31, 2023 albert
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Remember when you were in grade school and found out you had a new teacher? Imagine Twitter as that class, and Elon Musk as the teacher now that a whole bunch of Twitter users are testing the boundaries of what’s allowed on the app under...
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October 29, 2022 albert
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Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that Starlink, a division of his rocket company SpaceX will, “keep funding Ukraine govt for free.” There’s little doubt he’s talking about a preference his company stated in September to no longer lose money on what had recently been Musk’s signature...
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October 15, 2022 albert
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Elon Musk’s satellite internet service has hit a bump in the road after building up momentum for the first half of the year. Starlink, the ISP arm of SpaceX, saw its speeds worldwide slow down as the service gains in popularity, according to internet speed...
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September 21, 2022 albert
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There are plenty of legit reasons to want to see Elon Musk host Saturday Night Live on May 8. For starters, he’s a deeply awkward and unfunny person — and that level of cringe has its own sort of twisted appeal. Also, people seem to...
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May 8, 2021 albert
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Elon Musk was on Joe Rogan’s podcast for the third time, and you know what that means: wacky, unfiltered ideas directly from the mind of the world’s richest man. Some were fairly pedestrian; for example, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO described a solar-powered electric van,...
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February 12, 2021 albert
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