2024-09-05
This far-right influencer who liked to talk about how everyone else was controlled by Jewish money was named in a Justice Department indictment for taking millions of dollars to run a Russian influence operation on YouTube.
CNN
The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election
The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
2024-03-12
Contrary to what TikTok claims, if passed, Congress's bill would not ban TikTok. It threatens to ban TikTok *if* it doesn't break ties with its Chinese parent company in *6 months. * But obviously, TikTok doesn't want its users to know any of that. Wonder why.
Fortune
TikTok uses a non-disparagement clause in RSU contracts, perhaps to silence staff, an unusual practice; one ex-staffer claims a share buyback offer was withheld
2023-11-16
I wrote about Elon Musk affirming the deadliest antisemitic conspiracy theory in recent American history, and what it means for the rest of us: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Rolling Stone
Elon Musk replied “You have said the actual truth” to an X user who, replying to a “Hitler was right” inquiry, accused Jewish groups of “hatred against whites”
The billionaire amplified a post Wednesday accusing the Jewish community of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites”
2023-10-17
Hi @mosseri: My post of my own @theatlantic article on the Hamas attack, which consisted entirely of a quote from the piece and a link to it, was just taken down for violating Threads' community guidelines for “praising a terrorist attack.” …
New York Times
Meta identifies and fixes a bug after thousands of Palestinian supporters say their posts were suppressed or removed from Facebook and Instagram
Meta has cautioned that some posts may be temporarily suppressed or suspended as it sifts through millions of posts spreading across its platforms.
2023-09-05
Musk is not going to sue the ADL (he'd lose) anymore than he was going to cage fight Mark Zuckerberg (he'd lose). At this point, no media outlet should be uncritically parroting the bombastic things Musk randomly says on Twitter and then never follows through on. When he files, then it's news, not a second before.
TechCrunch
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.