Analysis: X is on track to fall well short of its goal of $100M in 2024 political ad revenue, raising just $15M to date, mainly from GOP and Trump campaigns
Social media platform has raised a fraction of $100mn target and mainly from Trump and Republicans Bluesky: @justmytwocents.bsky.social , @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social , and @paleofuture.bsky.social B...
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...
After the House vote, Chinese officials say the US has shown “robber's logic” toward TikTok, and Washington must “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies”
TIKTOK IS LESS OF A DANGER TO THE USA THAN META (FACEBOOK!), WHICH IS A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. Jessica Kwong / Metro.co.uk : Trump's ex-treasury secretary is trying to buy TikTok amid ban threat Mo...
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua
Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX Matt Novak / Forbes : Russia's RT Editor-In-Chief Thanks Elon Musk For Scrapping ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label On Twitter ChinaTechNews.com : Elon Musk Drops All Media Label...
Twitter under Elon Musk has yet to publish transparency reports detailing government content removal demands; the company published its last report in July 2022
“That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter's previously routine transparency reports Tweets: @noahshachtman , @aaschapiro , @ronchusid , @ngrossman81 ...
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works
from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction … Tweets: @ngrossman81 , @steve_vladeck , @jeffjarvis , @mschruers , @fernandorgallo , ...
The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works
from the batshit-crazy dept — As far as I can tell, in the area the 5th Circuit appeals court has jurisdiction … Tweets: @ngrossman81 , @steve_vladeck , @ericowensdc , @fernandorgallo , @jeffjarvis ...
No, Google didn't demonetize The Federalist and Zero Hedge, as NBC's misleading story claims, and it is not an example of anti-conservative bias
from the another-day-another-story dept — So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had “banned” two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge. Tweets: @nickco...
Media historians, tech designers, science fiction writers, and activists on how and why “slow media” curated by humans should replace today's social media
My quest to imagine a different reality. Tweets: @nytimes , @ngrossman81 , @scottgreenfield , @craigmod , @profjessmaddox , @annaleen , @noahpinion , @warinthefuture , @janinezacharia , @fox , @amyxzh...
Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings
Some years ago an investor I met at a TechCrunch … Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg : McKinsey Is ‘Horrified’ That Saudi Arabia Report May Have Been Misused CNET : Twitter employee may have spied on users fo...