The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its “regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures”
What You Need to Know for Your Next Trip Mohd Haider / Benzinga : Elon Musk Reacts To US Travel Ban On Former EU Commissioner: ‘...Gets His Dessert’ Sky News : EU warns of possible action after US bar...
Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10
Outages have been preventing X feeds from loading across web … Jonathan Greig / The Record : Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack Newsweek : Dark Storm Team Claims DDoS Attack on X, ...
Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
The fight between Ketamine Boy and the MAGAts is definitely a time to root for injuries … David Ingram / NBC News : Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigr...
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platformer : Zuckerberg dra...
Originality AI: 88%+ of the top US news outlets now block AI companies' web crawlers; leading right-wing outlets, like Breitbart and Newsmax, mostly permit them
Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @lolgo...
Elon Musk, in replies to a Breitbart tweet about Trump calling him a “bullshit artist”, says Trump should “hang up his hat” and DeSantis would easily beat Biden
What Happens Next Tweets: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @BreitbartNews I don't hate the man, but it's time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset. Dems should also call off the attack - don't m...
Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda
Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter should be taken privat...
Meta closes down 26%, erasing ~$250B from its market cap, the biggest single-day loss in market value for a US company, after weak Q4 results and Q1 guidance
the second-biggest drop ever Steve Muchoki / Coinspeaker : FB Stock Dips Over 26% after Meta Forecasts Weaker than Expected Earnings Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Snap Up, Zuck Down — Snap earned a profi...
NYU study: from August 2020 to January 2021, publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement than trustworthy news sources like WHO
Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found. — A new study of user behavior on Facebook around … Tweets: @kevinroose , @lizzadwoskin , @justinhendrix , @froomki...
Study: 48% of ad traffic on “fake” news publishers and 32% of ad traffic on “low credibility sites” like Breitbart is served by Google
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