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Kate Conger

@kateconger
233 posts
2024-05-13
scoops from me and @RMac18! Musk has used Twitter to build influence with right-wing leaders, blocking the company from enforcing its policy against election misinfo after Bolsanaro's loss and telling workers he'd call Modi directly to resolve issues https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-05-13 View on X
New York Times

How Elon Musk uses X to back right-wing world leaders like Argentina's Javier Milei and India's Narendra Modi, who can help secure advantages for his businesses

Minutes after it became clear that Javier Milei had been elected president of South America's second-largest nation in November … Threads: @karaswisher , @motorcityadam , @karaswis...

2024-04-16
why yall wanna text a robot??? https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-04-16 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice”

2024-03-26
X's case against the CCDH is dismissed, with the judge ruling that the suit was intended to punish CCDH for free speech [image]
2024-03-26 View on X
Reuters

A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal

in a win for free speech. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Good.  Musk does not support free speech.  He supports his sp...

2024-03-18
if one more dude emails me about Robert Heinlein I'm gonna snap. literally go on the xAI website and they talk about the inspiration for Grok coming from Hitchhikers. leave me alone!!
2024-03-18 View on X
xAI

xAI open sources the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained in October 2023, under Apache 2.0

We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model.

2023-08-16
you can read this if you are a little patient, maybe https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-08-16 View on X
Washington Post

X added five-second delays, some now removed, on t.co links to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Substack, the NYT, Reuters, and other sites Musk attacks

The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times …

2023-08-14
this seems like the most relevant part of the cage match update
2023-08-14 View on X
Bloomberg

After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months

and yet 🤡 @junlper : mark zuckerberg listening to elon musk talk about how he wanted the fight to be roman themed and in italy [image] Derek Guy / @dieworkwear : when i unbutton th...

2023-08-13
this seems like the most relevant part of the cage match update
2023-08-13 View on X
Bloomberg

After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months

but Zuckerberg Calls BS Stuff.co.nz : Elon Musk to fight Mark Zuckerberg in ‘ancient Roman setting’ MMA Fighting : Mark Zuckerberg denies Elon Musk fight claims, mentions UFC and O...

2023-08-12
this seems like the most relevant part of the cage match update
2023-08-12 View on X
Bloomberg

After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months

- Musk hasn't agreed on a date for the fight, Meta CEO says  — Meta's Threads launch helped fuel the Musk-Zuckerberg rivalry

2023-05-12
I am very excited for Twitter to move toward encrypted DMs but it doesn't sound like that's what we have today https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-12 View on X
Engadget

Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be Blue subscribers, group messages are not supported, and message metadata is not encrypted

Starting with Verified Users Jay Peters / The Verge : Twitter launches encrypted DMs behind a paywall Geoff Desreumaux / WeRSM : Twitter Launches Encrypted DMs, But Only For Paid S...

2023-05-11
I am very excited for Twitter to move toward encrypted DMs but it doesn't sound like that's what we have today https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-11 View on X
Engadget

Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted

There are still some major limitations to the feature.  —  Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature.

2023-05-10
Will be interesting to see how advertisers respond — this could push some Twitter advertisers away, or bring over new ones who used to advertise during Tucker's show.
2023-05-10 View on X
Washington Post

In a Twitter video, Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his Fox show on the social network; Elon Musk says Twitter did not sign a deal “of any kind whatsoever”

The former Fox News host tweeted a video saying he's moving his show to the social media site.

Tucker Carlson says he's bringing his show to Twitter, calling it the “only” platform that still defends free speech.
2023-05-10 View on X
Washington Post

In a Twitter video, Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his Fox show on the social network; Elon Musk says Twitter did not sign a deal “of any kind whatsoever”

The former Fox News host tweeted a video saying he's moving his show to the social media site.

2023-04-03
On a Twitter Space, Elon is disavowing the part of the code that classifies users as Democrat or Republican, says it should be removed. He didn't address the “author_is_elon” classifier. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-03 View on X
Mashable

Twitter's For You code tracked metrics to categorize users as “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon” to keep algorithm tweaks from harming any group

2023-04-02
On a Twitter Space, Elon is disavowing the part of the code that classifies users as Democrat or Republican, says it should be removed. He didn't address the “author_is_elon” classifier. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …

Twitter open-sourced its algorithm: https://github.com/...
2023-04-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …

2023-04-01
On a Twitter Space, Elon is disavowing the part of the code that classifies users as Democrat or Republican, says it should be removed. He didn't address the “author_is_elon” classifier. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …

Twitter open-sourced its algorithm: https://github.com/...
2023-04-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …

2023-03-31
Scoop with @dmccabe: Elon Musk sought a meeting with Lina Khan to discuss the FTC's Twitter investigation. She declined. Musk ended up meeting with the outgoing commissioner Christine Wilson. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-03-31 View on X
New York Times

Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark

Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.

2023-03-27
Parts of Twitter's source code were leaked online. The company suspects a former employee is behind the breach. Scoop w/@RMac18 https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-03-27 View on X
New York Times

Filing: some Twitter source code was leaked by user “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” on GitHub, which removed the code to comply with Twitter's DMCA notice on March 24

The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.

2023-03-18
Twitter has been trying to secure music licensing deals that could help it compete with TikTok (or even resurrect Vine) but the effort fizzled under Elon Musk. @RMac18 @sisario https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-03-18 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels but negotiations stalled after Elon Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs

Twitter didn't move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.