Tag: Tech
Elon Musk Lost His Bid To Delay The Twitter Trial, Which Starts On October 17
To which Musk replied with the poop emoji. Twitter is arguing that Musk is just trying to get out of the deal, and there is no mention of bots in the agreement, so they’re beside the point. The Twitter stock price has dropped significantly since the deal was signed in…
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Elon Musk Just Can’t Stop Tweeting At This Guy
“Exactly,” Musk tweeted in response to Pathole’s claims. For supporters like Pathole, the billionaire’s mercurial Twitter presence makes him seem comfortingly normal. He says it is Musk who is the true victim of hate, lies, and misinformation. “He gets bullied a lot… A lot of big players hate him,” Pathole…
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Here’s Why A Bunch Of Lawmakers Are Asking Questions About TikTok
5. Nine Republican senators led by Marsha Blackburn also sent a letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and demanded answers to questions about the privacy of American users. TikTok responded to the letter a couple of days later and admitted that ByteDance employees in China could access US users’…
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Facebook Is Finally Giving People A Non-Algorithmic News Feed
After years of people complaining, Facebook has finally added a way to view your posts in chronological order. Soon, you will be able to toggle into a “Feeds” button on the top of the Facebook app so you can view posts in chronological order from either Friends, Groups, and Pages.…
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For $35, The Facebook Portal Is Actually Worth Trying Out
Note: BuzzFeed News may collect affiliate fees from the Amazon links here. However, this is a product that we have genuinely tested and recommended several times without affiliate links in the past, and we mean it when we say: This is a good deal. Look, we’re not proud of being…
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Elon Musk Doesn’t Seem To Realize That Twitter Is Already A Free Speech Warrior In Countries Where It Actually Matters.
But his limited understanding of free speech issues, as demonstrated in his tweets, means that a social network he owns won’t choose to fight these battles around the world but instead follow local policies no matter how restrictive they might be. In countries like India, Russia, Turkey, and others, his…
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