Over a year ago, Apple removed its ads from X after Elon Musk backed a series of antisemitic posts from far-right users on the social media platform. Around the same time, a new report found that ads from companies such as Apple were being served on pro-Nazi content on...
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February 14, 2025 albert
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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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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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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’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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One of the British divers who helped rescue the Thai soccer team just confirmed what many suspected about Elon Musk’s somewhat bizarre attempt at helping: It was never going to work. In an interview with CNN, British diver Vern Unsworth called Musk’s submarine “just a...
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July 14, 2018 albert
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Elon Musk is digging a tunnel under Hawthorne near SpaceX headquarters in California, after receiving approval from city council to do so. Musk’s Boring Co. has already made considerable progress on the dig and tunnel build, apparently, as Musk shared an image of the tunnel...
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October 29, 2017 albert
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