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2 years in, Trump surrogate Elon Musk has remade X as a conservative megaphone

5:00am October 25, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

It's been nearly two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X. He has turned the platform into a megaphone for himself and, increasingly, for former President Donald Trump.

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Musk's X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court demands

5:48pm October 08, 2024

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice authorized the restoration of the social media platform's service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a court document.

Brazil starts blocking social media platform X amid a dispute with Elon Musk

4:23pm August 30, 2024

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country.

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X’s chatbot can now generate AI images. A lack of guardrails raises election concerns

4:50pm August 16, 2024

NPR was able to produce depictions that appear to show ballot drop boxes being stuffed and of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump holding firearms.

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Elon Musk is bringing lawsuits to Texas. A judge with Tesla stock keeps hearing them

6:25pm August 09, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

Judge Reed O’Connor is overseeing two major lawsuits filed by billionaire Elon Musk. Legal experts have raised questions about the judge’s impartiality.

A billboard in central Tehran, Iran, depicts named Iranian ballistic missiles in service, with text in Arabic reading "the honest [person's] promise" and text in Persian reading "Israel is weaker than a spider's web," on April 15. Iran attacked Israel over the weekend with missiles, which it said was a response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus, Syria.

As Iran attacked Israel, old and faked videos and images got millions of views on X

5:00am April 16, 2024

Images and videos from previous conflicts, video games and AI generators were often spread by accounts that pay to be boosted on the social media site once known as Twitter.

Elon Musk appears at an event in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late April 7, into the executive for alleged obstruction.

World News

Brazil's Supreme Court judge opens an investigation of Elon Musk over misinformation

11:17am April 08, 2024

by The Associated Press

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Elon Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation into Musk for alleged obstruction.

National

How the porn bots took over Twitter

12:27pm March 07, 2024

by Manuela López Restrepo

Twitter has long had a bot problem, but since moderation on the platform was gutted and paid users were given "prioritization" in replies, the landscape has changed.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media, including Meta's Facebook and Instagram.

Politics & Government

'You have blood on your hands,' Senator tells Mark Zuckerberg for failing kids online

9:09pm January 31, 2024

by Dara Kerr

The top tech executives from Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord get the fifth degree from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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An "X" sign rests atop the company headquarters in downtown San Francisco, on July 28, 2023.

National

Musk's X sues Media Matters over its report on ads next to hate groups' posts

3:01am November 21, 2023

by The Associated Press

Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly called Twitter, filed a lawsuit against the liberal advocacy group Media Matters for America on Monday.