Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Now the job falls to the insidious fossil-fuel-funded creep Russell Vought, their henchman at OMB. E.W. Niedermeyer / @niedermeyer.online : “Say what you will about Elon Musk, the man thinks ahead.” ...
At an Acquired podcast event, Mark Zuckerberg said his biggest career mistake was taking too much ownership for issues out of Meta's control
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Parker Thompson / @parkert : Not understanding that they were the refs getting worked by bad-faith actors has definitely always been a massive problem for Meta and othe...
YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content
The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indict...
Twitter's creators program makes its first payouts, including to far-right influencers like Andrew Tate, who made over $20K, Ian Miles Cheong, and Benny Johnson
The platform is paying high-profile creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”
lets be honest—isn't any less “brand safe” than two weeks ago. But it's an unspoken rule of Serious Media that we report the weather, we don't make it. https://twitter.com/... @cabel : @elonmusk Come ...
Replying to tweets from right-wing users, Elon Musk boosts criticism of Twitter executives Vijaya Gadde and Jim Baker, leading to more users joining the attacks
Yesterday, with as little fanfare as possible, I downloaded my archive and deactivated my Twitter account. Dirt : White hot — Dirt is a daily email about entertainment. … not.not.reading Karissa Bel...
WH doesn't seem to have invited anyone banned from major social media platforms to the “social media summit”, organized to lament alleged bias behind such bans
No one who is invited to the summit has actually been banned from social platforms. Tweets: @ashleyfeinberg , @juliadavisnews , @willsommer , @markknoller , @katierogers , @pbump , @cwarzel , and @one...