The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Jose...
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.
Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content”, after Elon Musk said on February 3 that its users had “broken the law”
It'll take far longer than Twitter to topple, but it's *not* going to withstand its mismanagement. [embedded post] Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer.net : Reddit admins are now takin...
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Chris Messina / @chris : What's up AIM buddies? — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: @gateklons : And the GDPR legal basis for this disclosure is?...
A majority of Brazilian judges on a Supreme Court panel vote to confirm an order to ban X in Brazil and fine those who don't comply with it by using a VPN
- Majority on panel backs order by Moraes against social network — Justices also uphold fine for those who use VPN for access
Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users
uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!! 🎉 Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading...
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 …
Sources and documents detail how Elon Musk blurred boundaries with female employees at SpaceX, including having sex with an employee and a former intern
The billionaire founder had sex with an employee and a former intern, and asked a woman at his company to have his babies
X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads
Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the satirical site
The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion's staff.
Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022
X usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks. — The number of people using X daily is falling … Threads: @lorakolodny , @georgescriban , @clarajeffery...
Meta plans to not “proactively recommend political content from accounts you don't follow” on Threads, matching the company's policy on Facebook and Instagram
including this feed. … Seth Abramson / @seth.abramson : Now that Threads has announced it will throttle political content, please do, when/as possible: 1. Repost political content...
Meta plans to not “proactively recommend political content from accounts you don't follow” on Threads, matching the company's policy on Facebook and Instagram
including this feed. … Seth Abramson / @seth.abramson : Now that Threads has announced it will throttle political content, please do, when/as possible: 1. Repost political content...
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie doubles down on not moderating Nazi content, after 200+ authors criticize the company for “platforming and monetizing Nazis”
More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it's “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” …
Internal documents: Amazon's AI chatbot Q, out in preview, experiences “severe hallucinations” and leaks “confidential data” like AWS data center locations
Some hallucinations could ‘potentially induce cardiac incidents in Legal,’ according to internal documents
Elon Musk scoffs at advertisers leaving X because of his controversial posts: “If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising ... go fuck yourself”
- In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” …
In a now-deleted November 28 post and on November 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016
in other words, implying that the debunking was BS because the journo was corrupt ergo Pizzagate is real. … Renato Mariotti / @renato.mariotti : Elon Musk has moved on from promoti...
Source: X is giving employees RSUs at $45 per share, implying a $19B valuation; in March 2023, X offered stock at a $20B valuation; Musk bought Twitter for $44B
i mean to be fair it was probably only worth 20-25 when he bought it, so he only erased 1-6 billion in value personally — also not for nothing it's encouraging to see that rule 7...
NewsWhip data on 300K influential X users: X is throttling posts with New York Times links, with “weekly average shares per article” down 75%+ from a July peak
if one big legacy site does it the others will likely follow, but no one wants to be the first to jump. https://www.semafor.com/... Mastodon: Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.soc...
LinkedIn is benefiting from recent social media upheavals, as the only place where old-school self-promotion still works; sharing was up 41% YoY in spring 2023
The professional network is benefiting from upheavals elsewhere in the social media landscape. — The biggest social media platforms all have their niches.