Sources: in August, Andy Jassy called Donald Trump to outline Amazon's plans, and Trump said Amazon should cut him a large check for his presidential efforts
Executives at companies founded by the billionaire Post owner have sought contact with Trump. He argues he didn't end presidential endorsements out of self-interest. X: @drewharwell , @quinnypig , @m...
X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads
While former President Donald Trump was actively being convicted by a jury of his peers in New York City last week … Threads: @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @theromit , @moskov , @drewharwell , @...
Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022
X usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks. — The number of people using X daily is falling … Threads: @lorakolodny , @georgescriban , @clarajeffery , @chancerydaily , ...
In a now-deleted November 28 post and on November 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016
in other words, implying that the debunking was BS because the journo was corrupt ergo Pizzagate is real. … Renato Mariotti / @renato.mariotti : Elon Musk has moved on from promoting antisemitism to ....
Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump views before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until January 8
In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence. Mastodon: @GottaLaff@mastod...
Experts warn about pedophiles using generative AI to create CSAM, leading to thousands of images on dark web forums; some question whether laws cover the images
Drew Harwell / Washington Post : Twitter: @drewharwell and @richardhanania Twitter: Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : New: AI-generated images of child sex abuse are being made and traded by the thousand...
Internal FBI and Pentagon documents detail early research to improve AI to aid with identifying or tracking Americans, later folded into the Horus search tool
Drew Harwell / Washington Post : Mastodon: @drewharwell@mastodon.social . Tweets: @aclu and @oknox Mastodon: Drew Harwell / @drewharwell@mastodon.social : New: The FBI actively helped research facial...
A draft House memo detailed failures by Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms to address extremism before January 6, much of which were not in the final report
especially Twitter—failed to heed their own employees' warnings about violent rhetoric on their platforms and bent their rules to avoid penalizing conservatives, particularly then-president Trump, out...
Twitter disrupts a China-based influence campaign ahead of the US midterms, spanning nearly 2,000 accounts; two networks skewed right and another left
Washington Post : Tweets: @josephmenn , @naominixwrites , @dfrlab , @drewharwell , and @maxboot Tweets: Joseph Menn / @josephmenn : As Musk was preparing to take control of Twitter, Chinese and Irani...
Interviews with over three dozen creators about going viral on TikTok show how the app's vast reach plus tools like “duet” and “stitch” can amplify harassment
at real cost to the people involved. https://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : TIL... Roughly 40,000 TikTok accounts have 1+ million followers, compared with 23,000 on Instagram, even thou...