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Musk’s X has to face lawsuit over withholding of promised bonuses
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 26, 2023
A federal judge has ruled that X, formerly Twitter, must face a lawsuit after staff accused the company of failing to pay bonuses promised to them. The judge has denied X’s motion to dismiss the case.
Read MoreMusk says advertisers who have stopped spending on ‘X’ are using ‘blackmail’
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 30, 2023
Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that advertisers who have halted spending on his social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other hateful material are engaging in “blackmail” and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away.
Read MoreIBM drops ‘X’ ads after its ad appeared next to pro-Nazi content
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 17, 2023
IBM on Thursday announced it had suspended advertising on Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after an ad for the computing giant appeared alongside pro-Nazi content. Here are the details.
Read MoreElon Musk & the decline, fall of Twitter: Tracking a year of controversy, decline
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 27, 2023
It’s been one year since Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion and set the company, along with its employees and users, off on a whiplash-inducing series of twists and turns. What happened? What’s next for the company now called X?
Read MoreX (formerly Twitter) testing program ‘Not a Bot’ aiming to reduce spam, bot activity, manipulation
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 18, 2023
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday announced that it is testing a “Not A Bot” program that charges new, unverified users $1 per year to post and interact with content on X.
Read More‘X’ & the fog of war: Elon Musk’s former Twitter clouds Israel-Hamas conflict
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Oct 10, 2023
Misinformation has run rampant on Elon Musk’s social media platform X in the 48 hours since Hamas militants’ surprise attack on Israel, with users sharing false and misleading claims about the conflict and Musk himself pointing users to an account known for spreading misinformation.
Read MoreNeed a social media alternative to X, Threads? Check out the ‘Fediverse’
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Aug 16, 2023
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, over a million users jumped ship. Meta wouldn’t release Threads for another nine months, so where did those Twitter users go? The answer for many is Mastodon, one of many fediverse applications which can do things the social media platforms owned...
Read MoreMusk to lobby Apple for lower AppStore fees on creators
Posted by WRAL TechWire | Aug 4, 2023
Twitter or “X” CEO Elon Musk says he plans to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook about lower App Store fees for creators who earn money through subscriptions on the Twitter/X social network. Will Cook go along?
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