#Elon Musk’s X Loses Bid to Block California Law Over Content Moderation Transparency

#Elon Musk’s X Loses Bid to Block California Law Over Content Moderation Transparency

X Corp. has lost a bid to temporarily block a California law requiring social media companies to disclose its terms of service and submit semiannual reports to the state about how they moderate content. U.S. District Judge William Shubb on Thursday denied X’s motion for a preliminary injunction, finding that the reporting requirements aren’t “unjustified…

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#Twitter/X Goes Down for Users Globally

#Twitter/X Goes Down for Users Globally

Twitter/X experienced major outages in the U.S. and other parts of the world on Wednesday night. For over an hour, the social media platform was failing to load posts on people’s timelines, both on desktop and mobile. Instead, users are met with a “Welcome to X” message on their homepage. DownDetector, a site that provides…

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#Elon Musk asks Alex Jones about ‘the whole Sandy Hook thing’ and Jones apologizes again

#Elon Musk asks Alex Jones about ‘the whole Sandy Hook thing’ and Jones apologizes again

Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones issued another apology for his comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, as tech billionaire Elon Musk asked him about the controversy amid his reinstatement on Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter).  The Infowars host was pressed on the issue during an appearance on X Spaces livestream co-hosted by…

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#Paris mayor calls X a ‘global sewer’

#Paris mayor calls X a ‘global sewer’

The mayor of Paris says she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, arguing the social media platform has “become a gigantic global sewer” that counters democracy and peaceful debate. In a lengthy post titled “Why I am leaving Twitter” on Monday, Anne Hidalgo said it has “become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies.” “Today, controversy,…

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