“The main reason for the decision is that, according to the defense ministry’s assessment, the objective exchange of arguments is becoming increasingly difficult,” the ministry said in a statement announcing its exit from X. A number of other celebrities and institutions have already ditched X, but Scholz posted on the site on Tuesday and the…
Elon Musk has regularly posted that users on X are “the media now” (Photo by Michael M. … [+] Santiago/Getty Images) Getty Images Elon Musk has made it very clear that he believes posts on his social media platform are as credible—and perhaps even more so—than content from traditional news outlets. “You are the media…
Times journalist Tom Ball and the Daily Mail’s Dan Woodland also found themselves on the list, alongside a string of entrepreneurs. In a lengthy statement, the Russian foreign ministry said it had been “once again forced to draw attention to the incessant aggressive anti-Russian rhetoric of the British authorities,” as well as to “the illegitimate…
Foreign spies could be using deepfake technology to threaten both individual and national security, China’s Ministry of State Security has warned. Deepfake tools, while finding application in general industries, could be exploited by espionage agencies as a new weapon for “cognitive warfare”, the ministry said in a statement on its social media account on Saturday….
Social media start-up Bluesky is exploding as academics, journalist, and left-leaning politicians abandon Elon Musk’s X in search of bluer skies. Now, the platform has surpassed Meta’s Threads in user numbers, yet Threads still leads in app usage. According to data from Similarweb, app and website usage of Bluesky in the United States rose more…
As the polling sites across the U.S. started counting votes Tuesday in the highly contested U.S. presidential race, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency published a satirical video titled “Presidential Election Victory Speeches of the Divided States of America.” Posted on social media platform X, Xinhua’s video lampooned President-elect Donald Trump and his opponent, Vice President…
NEW YORK, NY – October 27 : Elon Musk on stage before Republican presidential nominee former … [+] President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on Sunday, October 27, 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post via Getty Images Tech entrepreneur…
Russia, China and Iran are intent on fanning narratives to divide Americans ahead of the November 5 US elections and may consider fomenting violence after voters go to the polls, US intelligence officials said on Tuesday. The officials, briefing reporters on US election security, said foreign actors could consider physical threats and violence, and are…
During this year’s election season in Mexico, propagandists leveraged a new mass-broadcasting feature on WhatsApp, called “channels,” to impersonate reputable political news outlets and pump out misleading information. Thousands of miles away, Telegram users in Hungary leveraged the app’s forwarding bot against LGBTQ+ and pro-democracy civil society organizations, portraying them as “Western-controlled” ahead of European…
By Didi Tang and David Klepper | Associated Press WASHINGTON — When veteran U.S. diplomat Kurt Campbell traveled to the Solomon Islands to counter Beijing’s influence in the South Pacific country, he quickly saw just how far China would go to spread its message. The Biden administration’s Asia czar woke up one morning in 2022…