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Trump Judge Recuses From Musk’s Media Matters Suit

The Hill reports: The judge presiding over tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Media Matters for America has recused himself from the case, according to court documents. In a notice filed with the court on Tuesday, Judge Mark Pittman of the U.S. District Court in Northern Texas wrote that he was recusing himself from the case and requested the clerk …

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Musk Deletes “Pizzagate” Meme After Huge Backlash

Futurism reports: After getting in so much trouble over co-signing antisemitism that he had to go on an apology tour to Israel, noted tech weirdo Elon Musk tweeted a Pizzagate meme — and then deleted it, seemingly realizing that once again he had self-inflicted a terrible self-own. In a post made on the social network he owns that’s still visible …

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Elon Musk Promotes QAnon “Pizzagate” Batshittery

The Daily Beast reports: A day after visiting the sites of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacres and meeting with Israeli government officials amid backlash over his promotion of antisemitism, X owner Elon Musk boosted yet another unhinged right-wing conspiracy theory. In order to lend credence to Pizzagate, a years-old conspiracy about a Democratic-run pedophile sex ring that was the precursor …

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Musk To Meet With Hamas Hostage Families Today

Reuters reports: Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, accused by civil rights groups of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on his X social media platform, will meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday along with Israelis whose relatives have been held by Hamas in Gaza. Herzog’s office announced the meeting on Sunday night, saying, “In their meeting, the president will emphasize the need to …

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Meta Accused Of Collecting Data On Underage Users

The New York Times reports: Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states. Instead, the social media giant “routinely …

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NYT: Twitter Likely To Lose $75M In Ads By Year’s End

The New York Times reports: X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of major brands pause their marketing campaigns after its owner, Elon Musk, endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory this month. Internal documents viewed by The New York Times this …

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Musk To Meet With Netanyahu Near Gaza Next Week

The Jerusalem Post reports: Tesla and X owner Elon Musk is expected to visit Israel next week, during which he will visit towns near the Gaza border that were attacked by Hamas on October 7, N12 reported on Thursday. According to the report, Musk will meet with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit. The visit …

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Musk: “There’s A Graveyard Filled With My Enemies”

The Street reports: Elon Musk, who has more than 163 million followers, vehemently agreed with a user who accused Jews of pushing “hatred against whites.” Musk then criticized the Anti-Defamation League in part for pushing this so-called antiwhite racism. Musk never once provided evidence or examples behind these claims. Musk has since maintained that he is not antisemitic, going so …

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Falsely Accused “Fed” Explains Suit Against Elon Musk

CNN reports: Ben Brody says his life was going fine. He had just finished college, stayed out of trouble, and was prepping for law school. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Elon Musk used his considerable social media clout to amplify an online mob’s misguided rants accusing the 22-year-old from California of being an undercover agent in a neo-Nazi group. The …

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Trump’s Truth Social Sues 20 Outlets Over Loss Reports

Bloomberg News reports: The company behind former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social wants $1.5 billion in damages from news organizations which reported that the platform had lost $73 million. Lawyers for Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. said in a lawsuit filed Monday in state court in Sarasota County, Florida, that the number was “an utter fabrication” and accused 20 …

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Elon Musk Files Defamation Suit Against Media Matters

Reuters reports: Messaging platform X on Monday sued media watchdog group Media Matters, alleging the organization defamed the platform after it published a report that said ads for major brands had appeared next to posts touting Nazism. X, formerly Twitter, has faced growing outrage since Media Matters published the report on Thursday, which led IBM, Comcast and several other advertisers …

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White House Launches Multiple Accounts On Threads

The Hill reports: The White House on Monday started accounts on Threads, the social media platform launched by Meta. The administration announced the creation of accounts for President Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, as well as accounts for the White House and a Spanish version, La Casa Blanca. The White House account …

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Major Ad Execs Pressure Twitter/X CEO To Resign

Forbes reports: X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the longtime NBC advertising executive tapped to bring back revenue and credibility to the company from big advertisers, is facing her own credibility crisis as advertisers halt spending over Elon Musk’s endorsement of antisemitic abuse on the social media platform. Forbes has confirmed that Yaccarino has been contacted by a groundswell of leading advertising …

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Musk Vows “Thermonuclear Lawsuit Against Media Matters And ALL Who Colluded In Attack” On Twitter

The Guardian reports: Elon Musk has said he will be filing a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters and others, after major US companies paused their adverts on his social media site over concerns about antisemitism. The media watchdog Media Matters said earlier this week that it found corporate advertisements by IBM, Apple, Oracle and Comcast’s Xfinity were being placed alongside …

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Elon Musk Calls Media Matters An “Evil Organization”

Here’s the Media Matters post that has Musk enraged: IBM announced yesterday that it is suspending its advertising on X (formerly Twitter) after Media Matters reported that the platform placed its ads next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. IBM isn’t alone in having issues when advertising on the platform: Following our report yesterday, we additionally found …

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Musk Hit With Backlash For Praising Antisemitic Tweet

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk faced a huge backlash online Wednesday evening after he agreed with an anti-Semitic post made on X. Musk replied to the tweet, stating, “You have said the actual truth.” Journalists, political insiders, and pundits immediately began denouncing the world’s richest man. CNN’s Jake Tapper noted that Musks’ comments come amid a time of rising anti-Semitism and …

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Extremists Drive The Trevor Project Off Twitter

NBC News reports: The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth, announced it is leaving X, formerly known as Twitter, because of “increasing hate & vitriol on the platform targeting the LGBTQ community.” “LGBTQ young people are regularly victimized at the expense of their mental health, and X’s removal of certain moderation functions makes …

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Elon Musk Introduces AI Chatbot Named “Grok”

Axios reports: Elon Musk Saturday introduced a new chatbot called “Grok” out of his xAI startup, claiming that AI should be “useful to people of all backgrounds and political views.” xAI spent four months training Grok, which it categorizes as a “frontier large language model” — which would make it subject to new AI testing requirements both from the White …

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100+ Fake News Studies Canceled Due To X Changes

Reuters reports: Social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter, as a result of actions taken by Elon Musk that limit access to the social media platform, nearly a dozen interviews and a survey of planned projects show. Musk’s restrictions on critical methods of gathering data on the global platform have suppressed …

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X Begins Selling Defunct Usernames For Up To $50K

Forbes reports: X appears to have begun ramping up efforts to sell disused user handles, kicking off a program previously signaled by billionaire owner Elon Musk. A team within the company, known as the @Handle Team, has begun work on a handle marketplace for the purchase of account names left unused by the people who originally registered them. In at …

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