Month: February 2023
Twitter rewrites its rules on violent content under Elon Musk
Both policies ban you from threatening or glorifying violence in most scenarios (each version has carve-outs for “hyperbolic” speech between friends). However, the new set of rules appears to expand on some concepts while cutting down on some others. For example, the old policy stated: Statements that express a wish…
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Elon Musk’s ‘lab leak’ tweets could be an issue for Tesla’s plans in China
CNBC reports The Global Times, a state-run paper in China, has warned Elon Musk about pushing the covid “lab leak” theory. Reporter Eunice Yoon said the social media post asked if Musk is “breaking the pot of China,” with a meaning similar to asking if he was biting the hand…
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Twitter’s decentralized alternative Bluesky arrives as an invite-only iOS app
Bluesky, the decentralized project that originated within Twitter, has arrived on the Apple App Store as an invite-only social network, as first reported by TechCrunch. The listing also gives us one of our very first glimpses at the app, which closely resembles Twitter down to the timeline and profile pages.…
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The biggest stories from Hot Pod Summit
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. I hope you all had a great week! Hot Pod Summit was a lot of fun — it was great to meet so many of you in person and chat about some of the…
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I don’t want to log in to your website
There is a new trend among websites where they want my email address before I’m allowed to read their free content. While I sympathize with the struggles of the media business, I am just going to point out something obvious: not reading is easier than reading — and way easier…
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Voice Deepfakes Of Everyone From Joe Rogan To Joe Biden Are Taking Over Social Media
It takes around two hours for Pade to make each of the videos, which range from 30 seconds to one minute in length. He records gameplay and then generates the voices using AI. “I actually start with the TikTok or vertical video then I make the YouTube video after, and…
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