Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27
President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving
Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements
Good luck to everyone who stays on Threads 😂 [embedded post] @jphillll.bsky.social : Threads doing more new shit, but it's like AI summaries of trending topics lol [image] Corey Qu...
Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements
Meta is promising “long-overdue improvements” to its X competitor, Threads, including more precise search features and expanded trending topics.
Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more
“All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”
A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier
the equivalent of massive unregistered campaign donations; most of it is dangerous, obliterating the fragile guardrails in our democratic process; all of it is not normal and not e...
An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement
From @kateaconger and @mac_ryan_'s new book: “Ms. Crawford and Mr. Jones faced a maelstrom of criticism across Twitter, and the product designer wanted to delete his post. … Kate C...
An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement
By Nov. 9, 2022, anxiety was high among the Twitter employees gathered at the company's San Francisco headquarters. Threads: @oliverdarcy , @kateaconger , @sheerafrenkel , @mac_rya...
Meta starts testing TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads that are stacked in a column interface on the web, available to selected users
Meta struggles to precisely define what political content is, offering only a vague statement, after saying Threads would not amplify political content
What constitutes “political” content? — It's an important question that Meta has conspicuously left unanswered …
Sources: Meta is reducing payments to news outlets that fact-check potential WhatsApp misinformation, including on elections, and has cut CrowdTangle funding
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X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account
the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace. Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...
X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account
the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace. Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...
In a 2+ hour talk on X with Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Jack Posobiec, and others, Elon Musk said X should avoid outright bans unless users “do something illegal”
Elon Musk and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, newly reinstated to X after a five-year ban, launched a live-streamed chat …
X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account
the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace. Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...
X lifts the permanent ban on Infowars host Alex Jones, after Elon Musk conducted a 24-hour poll, resulting in 70.1% voting in favor of restoring Jones' account
the InfoWars host, and Sandy Hook families' menace. Critics of Elon Musk's X, Tesla and auto industry bloggers including software developer Travis Brown, Plainsite founder Aaron G...
Sources: Paramount and WBD stopped posting under certain corporate handles on X due to brand safety concerns; Disney-affiliated X accounts have also gone dark
Oliver Darcy / CNN :
Sources: Paramount and WBD stopped posting under certain corporate handles on X due to brand safety concerns; Disney-affiliated X accounts have also gone dark
Oliver Darcy / CNN :
As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose
Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
Meta expands Threads' keyword search to “most” English- and Spanish-speaking countries, including the US and the UK, after a test in Australia and New Zealand
keyword search appears to be working: Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy : Threads says it is expanding its beta version of keyword search on mobile to the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, and In...
Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop
In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League.