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Brazil starts blocking social media platform X amid a dispute with Elon Musk

4:23pm August 30, 2024

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country.

National

X’s chatbot can now generate AI images. A lack of guardrails raises election concerns

4:50pm August 16, 2024

NPR was able to produce depictions that appear to show ballot drop boxes being stuffed and of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump holding firearms.

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Elon Musk is bringing lawsuits to Texas. A judge with Tesla stock keeps hearing them

6:25pm August 09, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

Judge Reed O’Connor is overseeing two major lawsuits filed by billionaire Elon Musk. Legal experts have raised questions about the judge’s impartiality.

A billboard in central Tehran, Iran, depicts named Iranian ballistic missiles in service, with text in Arabic reading "the honest [person's] promise" and text in Persian reading "Israel is weaker than a spider's web," on April 15. Iran attacked Israel over the weekend with missiles, which it said was a response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus, Syria.

As Iran attacked Israel, old and faked videos and images got millions of views on X

5:00am April 16, 2024

Images and videos from previous conflicts, video games and AI generators were often spread by accounts that pay to be boosted on the social media site once known as Twitter.

National

How the porn bots took over Twitter

12:27pm March 07, 2024

by Manuela López Restrepo

Twitter has long had a bot problem, but since moderation on the platform was gutted and paid users were given "prioritization" in replies, the landscape has changed.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media, including Meta's Facebook and Instagram.

Politics & Government

'You have blood on your hands,' Senator tells Mark Zuckerberg for failing kids online

9:09pm January 31, 2024

by Dara Kerr

The top tech executives from Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord get the fifth degree from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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