Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has raised concerns over the potential misuse of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s company, warning that using its image-generation function to create indecent or malicious content could amount to criminal offences. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) issued a statement on Thursday…
Editor’s Note: While we can’t endorse what X has become, we can bring you the worthwhile moments that still exist there, curated and free of the surrounding chaos. American politics — well, frankly, global politics — is chaos right now, but I find it comforting to know I’m not alone in thinking the world has…
AI generated image for representation A British man has been convicted of hacking Twitter accounts belonging to high-profile figures, including former US President Barack Obama. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, a UK government agency has ordered Joseph James O’Connor to repay $5.40 million (4.1 million pounds) worth of Bitcoin for the…
Democratic Representative Brad Sherman has pushed back against claims that he browsed explicit material during a flight, after images of him looking at revealing photos on his tablet went viral on social media. The controversy began when a fellow passenger discreetly photographed the US politician seated with his iPad, which appeared to display a sequence…
By Euronews Published on 13/11/2025 – 11:12 GMT+1 Ireland’s media watchdog says it will investigate whether people can challenge content moderation decisions made by Elon Musk’s social media platform X. Coimisiún na Meán said it will test whether people can appeal X’s decisions to not remove content that seemingly breaches the platform’s terms of service, whether…
We’re seeing reports across social media that users of Elon Musk’s X are getting stuck in endless loops and, in some cases, getting locked out of their X account, following a mandatory two-factor security change that seems to have gone wrong. On October 24, X said in a post that it was asking users who…
Author Joyce Carol Oates has stirred a new controversy with her ‘uneducated’ ‘uncultured’ comments for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Questioning how the tech billionaire “never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys”, Oates shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) labelling Musk as “totally uneducated, uncultured.” While does not name anyone in the post, the…
Topline Threads, Meta’s text-based social media platform that launched in 2023 as a challenger to the Elon Musk-owned X, for the first time beat X in global daily active mobile users for the month of October, according to data shared with Forbes by market intelligence company Similarweb. Threads surpassed X in the number of daily…
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A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by four former Twitter executives over unpaid severance following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company. Musk fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and lawyers Sean Edgett and Vijaya Gadde in 2022, according to TechCrunch. The former executives filed the $128 million lawsuit in 2024. Per…