2026-02-10
Russian warbloggers have pointed out in the past that the army is heavily dependent on Telegram for battlefield communications, including things such as calling in artillery strikes on particular coordinates. They have been strongly opposed to curbing Telegram. This could have a
Bloomberg
Russian media: Russia's communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government promotes its Max “super app”
Russia's communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, the RBC news service reported …
2025-11-29
In case anyone thinks this will only affect the US, Musk is also a public supporter of the far right in Germany and the UK, so it will have a bearing on upcoming elections in both countries. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Stanford University
Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce “partisan animosity”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/ ... Mike Jay M / @mikejay.link : Evidence suggests that being on X and using the “For You” feed can rapidly cause political polarisation. — And polit...
2025-06-11
Well, this is certainly a novel approach... [image]
Wall Street Journal
Sources detail how X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to motivate companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site
Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform
Worryingly, it seems to be working - suggesting that something has gone very wrong with capitalism in Trump's America: [image]
Wall Street Journal
Sources detail how X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to motivate companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site
Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform
2024-06-25
I'm looking forward very much to the EU slapping Meta with billion-euro fines for doing this. Facebook is a sewer these days, frankly.
404 Media
Meta has seemingly stopped trying as hard to moderate its services, overrun with AI spam and scams; X gutting safety staff may have lowered the industry's bar
2023-01-15
What makes this all the more stupid is that lots of corporate users - and advertisers! - rely on third-party apps to manage their Twitter communications. Musk has just screwed over many of his most valuable customers and users, once again. https://twitter.com/...
The Information
Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation would be provided publicly
The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …