X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria
ROLE PLAY — A new feature on Elon Musk's X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
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...
4chan is down after an apparent hack late on April 14; an Imgur post seems to show a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server and doxxed some users
More like 404chan, amirite? — 4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack.
4chan is down after an apparent hack late on April 14; an Imgur post seems to show a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server and doxxed some users
More like 404chan, amirite? — 4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack.
The US CFPB drops its lawsuit against Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, after suing them in December 2024 over fraud complaints
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dismissed its lawsuit against the operator of the Zelle payments network …
Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji
An Elon Musk fan in Fiji tricks the world — The AI avatar for the Adrian Dittmann X account, left, and Adrian Dittmann appearing …
Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann's X activity and alleged 4chan posts suggest he might be Musk's fake online persona; source: the viral 4chan screenshot is fake
www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243... [embedded post] Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona : According to The Verge, that screenshot that seems to tie the Adrian Dittmann account directly...
Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters
Artificial intelligence was predicted to disrupt the 2024 election. It ended up shaking people's faith in truth rather than changing minds. Source: ISD .
ISD: top officials in NC and at FEMA responding to Hurricane Helene face antisemitic attacks largely on X, where 10 of the posts collectively drew 17.1M views
Report finds Elon Musk's X is fueling conspiracy theories that risk undermining rescue efforts and preparations for Hurricane Milton.
X is blocking links to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter with a hacked JD Vance dossier and has suspended Klippenstein's X account for posting Vance's personal info
X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that's alleged to be the Trump campaign's research …
US charges leaders of white supremacist gang The Terrorgram Collective, which uses Telegram to celebrate attacks on minorities, with trying to incite a race war
and the state of far-right domestic terrorism — is to operate in a kind of decentralized, leaderless movement. In fact, the structure of so many attacks proves that leaders are cir...
The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election
The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
A US judge dismisses X's lawsuit against CCDH, saying the suit had been brought as a means toward “punishing the defendants for their speech”; X plans to appeal
in a win for free speech. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... Mastodon: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social : Good. Musk does not support free speech. He supports his sp...
X suspends the accounts of some journalists and researchers who posted the alleged real name of neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss, after Stonetoss appealed to Musk
https://www.wired.com/... [image] Steve Thompson / @SteveThompson@mastodon.social : “Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identity” — ...
The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure
Memo: TikTok is “disappointed” that the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and reiterates its plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation
TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …
After ADL's CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts
Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours. — Over the past 24 hours …
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”
YouTube didn't provide further examples of what factors or instances it considered when weighing its decision https://www.axios.com/... Wyatt / @wyattausterre1 : Getting ready so t...
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”
In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud …
Despite Elon Musk's opaque approach, the “Twitter Files” give a peek at moderation at scale and are a win for transparency, while failing to prove systemic bias
Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …