Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
The fight between Ketamine Boy and the MAGAts is definitely a time to root for injuries … David Ingram / NBC News : Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigr...
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry
Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b visas. It started whe...
SpaceX says it's complying with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order to block Starlink access to X in Brazil, after the country froze some of its assets
Lula just introduced him to hammerhead sharks. — Starlink backtracks, complies with order blocking X in Brazil, says regulator | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/... Bluesky: Clemens Vasters / @clem...
Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, gaining Reddit Data API access to surface more Reddit content in Search and to train its AI models
what you need to know Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap : Reddit Inks $60 Million-a-Year Deal To Train Google AI Ahead of Expected IPO | Report Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : No Joke: Google ...
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :...
Profile of Gab co-founder Andrew Torba days after Gab went offline and its CTO and co-founder Ekrem Buyukkaya quit following “attacks from the American media”
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After Pittsburgh shooting, Gab has been suspended by PayPal, Stripe, and hosting provider Joyent; Microsoft had terminated Azure agreement with Gab last month
historically agnostic about most of the content stored that way — have in policing against the internet's worst forms of hatred and abuse? Walindsey Booda / @lindseybieda : Gab being no platformed is ...
Profile of Andrew Torba, who founded social network Gab.ai, which has become an alt-right haven, following the failure of his YC-backed ad tech firm
my piece about Gab.ai. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Felix Gillette / @felixgillette : “He has used the rejection of his company as a rallying cry for the broader campaign against Silicon Valley.” http...
Trump-supporting founder of Gab.ai, a social network popular with the alt-right, was kicked out of Y Combinator for violating its harassment policy
Milo Yiannopoulos and Gab.ai CEO Andrew Torba. — On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai …