Washington: Elon Musk, the owner of X, has advised users of the social media platform to refrain from excessively using bold fonts in their posts. He stated that such posts would no longer be displayed prominently in the main timeline. Musk highlighted that the bold font feature, intended to help users emphasise specific parts of…
More than 170 Hongkongers have said they were splashed with what they feared were bodily fluids in public over the past eight months, a concern group has revealed, after a woman criticised the penalty given to a man who used a pipette to squirt her with a liquid containing semen. While some men were among…
Matt Mahan San Jose mayor, who broke with fellow Democrat Gavin Newsom to support Prop 36, a ballot measure to toughen retail theft and fentanyl penalties, is vindicated as a new poll shows 71% of voters support it. Elon Musk Tech billionaire who bought Twitter two years ago posts “no one is…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Getty Images On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration levied proposed fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars against SpaceX for violations related to rocket launches last year. Soon after, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the commercial rocket and satellite company, threatened legal action to fight the citations. “SpaceX will be…
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has labelled the Australian government as “fascists” over proposed new laws to crack down on digital misinformation, particularly on social media websites. Under the proposed legislation, which have yet to pass parliament, social media companies could be fined up to 5 per cent of their annual revenue if they fail to…
Prolific poster and world’s richest man Elon Musk constantly interacted on his social network X with right-wing influencers paid by a Russia-funded company. Two employees of Russian state-controlled media operation RT allegedly funneled $10 million into Tennessee-based Tenet Media, with the goal of supporting Russian objectives, according to an unsealed indictment in the Southern District…
The social network X has been largely inaccessible in Brazil since Saturday, after the country’s Supreme Court ordered all mobile and internet service providers to block the platform. The court order followed a months-long dispute between Judge Alexandre de Moraes and X CEO Elon Musk over the company’s misinformation, hate speech, and moderation policies. With…
The conflict between Elon Musk and Brazil’s judiciary has intensified over recent months, centred around issues of free speech, content moderation, and judicial overreach. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes banned X recently. While it had minimal impact on Brazil’s business, Brazil is a significant market in terms of user base. Musk chose to close…
X’s fight with the Brazilian government is only complicated if you want it to be. Brazil made political censorship demands. Elon Musk refused to comply, citing free speech, and now his platform is banned in Brazil. X has, in recent years, honored certain takedown requests — from the governments of Turkey, India, Germany, and the United…