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Christian Christensen

@chrchristensen
15 posts
2024-09-22
Musk agrees to take down accounts, pay fines, comply with #Brazil's request for X/Twitter to appoint a legal representative. Case was about a nation-state having sovereignty over its own media ecosystem in the face of the whims of a billionaire, and it looks like sovereignty won. [image]
2024-09-22 View on X
New York Times

X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company's lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative

In an abrupt reversal, the social network's lawyers said it was complying with court orders that it had previously defied.

2024-09-01
You know what's really “Orwellian”? The richest man in the world using his private global media platform to convince people that left-wing Social Democrat Orwell was a right-wing Libertarian.
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

Musk: “Twitter follows the laws of the countries it works in.” Brazil: “Thanks. Here is our law.” Musk: “I refuse to recognise that law and will use my wealth and power to smear and undermine your country.”
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

Interesting how the only “Orwellian” laws Musk hates are the ones he doesn't like in countries he's willing to criticise: UK, France, Brazil. Yet he's spectacularly silent about far more repressive laws in countries like China, Turkey, India and X investor Saudi Arabia.
2024-09-01 View on X
Associated Press

Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …

2024-08-31
You know what's really “Orwellian”? The richest man in the world using his private global media platform to convince people that left-wing Social Democrat Orwell was a right-wing Libertarian.
2024-08-31 View on X
Associated Press

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …

Musk: “Twitter follows the laws of the countries it works in.” Brazil: “Thanks. Here is our law.” Musk: “I refuse to recognise that law and will use my wealth and power to smear and undermine your country.”
2024-08-31 View on X
Associated Press

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …

Interesting how the only “Orwellian” laws Musk hates are the ones he doesn't like in countries he's willing to criticise: UK, France, Brazil. Yet he's spectacularly silent about far more repressive laws in countries like China, Turkey, India and X investor Saudi Arabia.
2024-08-31 View on X
Associated Press

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …

2023-03-04
That's a huge drop. Musk is actively scaring advertisers (and likely investors) away. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: in an update to investors, Twitter reports a 40% YoY decline in both revenue and adjusted earnings for December 2022, as advertisers fled the company

The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk's buyout, people familiar with the matter said

That's a huge drop. Musk is actively scaring advertisers (and likely investors) away. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-04 View on X
The Information

Sources: after Twitter refused to pay its AWS bills for months, Amazon threatened in February to withhold payments for the ads it runs on Twitter

Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising cli...

2023-02-15
Musk was so mad that his tweets weren't more popular that he forced Twitter staff to alter the algorithm for his tweets so they get more exposure. It's his company, fine. Just stop bullshitting about this guy as some free speech warrior. He's a joke. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-15 View on X
Platformer

Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet outperformed his

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden's, Twitter's CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm

2022-11-29
Narrator: “It was actually about convincing Bud Light to advertise next to content from Holocaust deniers.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-29 View on X
MacRumors

Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship

Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

2020-07-29
After neutralizing the press, Erdogan and Turkey take another step toward crushing speech. https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-29 View on X
New York Times

Turkey passes law extending sweeping powers over social media platforms, ordering those with 1M+ DAU to open offices in the country and store user data locally

The legislation extends control over social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

2020-06-19
Nothing to see here, just a media company removing a political ad run by the President of the United States that used Nazi symbols. Move along. https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-19 View on X
Media Matters for America

Facebook says it has removed ads from Trump's 2020 campaign that featured Nazi iconography; the campaign ran 88 ads with the inverted red triangle symbol

Update (6/18/20, 1:15 p.m. EDT): Facebook has removed the ads in question following this post and public backlash.

2019-08-21
Note language used by Twitter when addressing suspension of accounts used by Chinese govt re HK protests: “coordinated attempts to manipulate the public conversation.” Using that definition, tell me how Trump/WH tweets containing blatant lies don't fall into same category. pic.twitter.com/UgcgrD5uEM
2019-08-21 View on X
Twitter

Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K “spammy” accounts, before they became “substantially active”, alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts

Instead of a narrative of Hong Kong prospering under Chinese rule, it has just shown itself like a bully https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Stamos / @alexstamos : Working on somethin...

2019-08-20
Note language used by Twitter when addressing suspension of accounts used by Chinese govt re HK protests: “coordinated attempts to manipulate the public conversation.” Using that definition, tell me how Trump/WH tweets containing blatant lies don't fall into same category. pic.twitter.com/UgcgrD5uEM
2019-08-20 View on X
Twitter

Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K “spammy” accounts, before they became “substantially active”, alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts

We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong …