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X, the platform previously known as Twitter, fired half of its election integrity team, raising a red flag about the company’s role in the spread of misinformation worldwide. The social media company started by laying off all four Dublin team members, including X’s global head of election integrity, Aaron Rodericks. The purge of X’s employees occurred after CEO Linda Yaccarino told the Financial Times on September 27 that the company was developing its election integrity division worldwide. It is also the result of X making major changes to its platform, including the removal of users’ ability...
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The Republican Jewish Coalition condemned a GOP student group for inviting a prominent white supremacist and Holocaust denier to speak at an upcoming conference. The University of Arizona College Republicans United is a controversial conservative club that is hosting its second annual national convention on July 30 in Prescott, Arizona. The group invited Nick Fuentes, who gained a following in 2017 by hosting the podcast America First With Nicholas J. Fuentes. Fuentes is considered an extremist, spewing ideas that oppose women’s voting rights and comparing killing Jewish people to “making cook...
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The Trump Organization has the worst reputation of any company in the country, according to the recent 2023 Axios Harris Poll 100 reputation rankings. In March, 16,310 Americans were asked by Axios and Harris Poll to rate the 100 companies they consider to be the “most visible” on nine dimensions of reputation: character, trajectory, trust, culture, ethics, citizenship, vision, growth and “products & services.” Here are the seven companies that scored the lowest, in descending order from the worst ranked: The Trump OrganizationFTXFox CorporationTwitterMetaSpirit AirlinesTikTokThe Trump Organiz...
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced plans to bring his controversial and popular show to Twitter. The announcement comes weeks after his ouster from Fox News. Carlson posted a three-minute video to his Twitter account detailing his decision to create a new show. “Starting soon, we’ll be doing a new version of the show that we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter,” Carlson said. “We’ll bring you some other things, too, which we’ll tell you about. But for now, we’re just grateful to be here.” “Amazingly that as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that all...
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Elon Musk made a visit to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, meeting with Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. Musk, the relatively new owner of social media giant Twitter, claimed he met with both leaders to ensure that his platform is “fair to both parties.” McCarthy declined to comment on the meeting but added that Musk was merely visiting to wish the fifty-eight-year-old a happy birthday. He added that they have “been friends for years.” Jefferies has not commented on the meeting. IN MEMORIAM 2022: 100 GREAT CELEBRITIES WHO DIED IN 2022 Soci...
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Elon Musk has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records again – this time, he probably doesn’t want the award. According to the record keeper, Musk has lost the largest financial fortune in recorded human history. Forbes estimated recently that Musk had lost $182 billion since November 2021. Other sources have put the net loss closer to $200 billion. IN MEMORIAM 2022: 100 GREAT CELEBRITIES WHO DIED IN 2022 As a result, Musk is no longer the wealthiest man in the world. That title now belongs to French fashion and cosmetics financier Bernard Arnault. Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son p...
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The landlords who own Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters have sued Elon Musk after he allegedly stiffed them on thousands of dollars. Columbia Property Trust claimed Elon Musk owed them $136,260 in rent in a lawsuit filed on Friday. IN MEMORIAM 2022: 100 GREAT CELEBRITIES WHO DIED THIS YEAR! Musk has avoided paying the portion of the rent as he attempts to renegotiate the terms of the lease agreement. Musk has tried to cut costs at the company after purchasing the website for $44 billion in 2022, widely seen as one of the worst business deals of all time. The move follows massive layoffs, se...
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The website version of the social media platform Twitter is back up after users around the world reported an outage on Wednesday. The Elon Musk-owned site experienced interruptions for two hours beginning around 7 p.m. EST, according to Downdetector, which tracks website outages across the internet. It marked the first outage since Musk took over the site in October. Normally, Twitter users open the site to see a news feed, but instead, they saw a message that read, “Something went wrong, but don’t fret – it’s not your fault.” Issues were reported in the U.S., Canada, across Europe, Argentina ...
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Elon Musk sold off billions of dollars worth of shares in Tesla, sending the stock spiraling into its worst week since 2020. One of the electric car manufacturer’s most prominent investors is calling for Musk to resign as CEO. Musk disclosed his sale of $3.5 billion worth of stock last week. He has sold a total of $39.3 billion in the last 13 months. IN MEMORIAM 2022: 100 GREAT CELEBRITIES WHO DIED THIS YEAR! The news sent Tesla stocks into a tailspin – its 16.1% decrease was the stock’s worst performance since 2020. The company’s market cap is below $500 billion for the first time since Novem...
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk stood by his decision to ban prominent journalists from the social media platform for seven days “doxxing.” “Doxxing” is defined as the act of sharing information that can allow others to harass an individual, such as releasing phone numbers, residential information or email addresses. “Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else,” Musk wrote in a Thursday tweet. “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.” CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell and N...
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