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Elon Musk brings community notes to Indian X users before elections- What is it and why is it important

4Apr

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Elon Musk brings community notes to Indian X users before elections- What is it and why is it important

[ad_1] In a move aimed at combatting misinformation, Elon Musk-owned micro-blogging platform X has rolled out its Community Notes program in India. This new initiative empowers users to contribute to the fact-checking process of tweets circulated on the platform.Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced the launch of Community Notes in India, marking a significant step towards fostering a more informed and vigilant online community. The introduction of this program signifies a collective effort to combat misinformation by harnessing the collective wisdom and diverse perspectives of users. Also Read: Elon Musk promises premium features to X users with over 2500 verified followers "Welcome new contributors in India. Our first contributors are joining today, and we'll be expanding over...

The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

25Dec

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The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

[ad_1] We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searching in between.Here's a look back some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year: GOODBYE TWITTERA little more than a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter 's San Francisco headquarters, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what's now known as X. Musk revealed the X logo in July. It quickly replaced Twitter's name and its whimsical blue bird icon, online and on the company's San Francisco he...

Elon Musk’s X Faces First European Union Probe Since New Disinformation Rules Came Into Effect

19Dec

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Elon Musk’s X Faces First European Union Probe Since New Disinformation Rules Came Into Effect

[ad_1] The European Union took the first formal steps against Elon Musk's X over allegedly breaking rules on how it handled illegal content and disinformation, in the first such probe of a major online platform since the bloc's Digital Services Act came into force this year. Regulators opened formal infringement proceedings against X, two months after warning the company formerly known as Twitter over how it handled harmful content on its site, the European Commission said in a statement on Monday. Regulators will continue to gather evidence on violations and will be empowered to take enforcement steps, it said. “X remains committed to complying with the Digital Services Act, and is cooperating with the regulatory process,” X spokesperson Joe Benarroch said by email. “It is important ...

16Dec

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Mold of the internet: This Clunky Chinese Disinformation Effort Has Spread To Everywhere

[ad_1] When a Twitter account for Utah business coach Spencer Taggart began posting about hot-button political issues in 2020, it garnered widespread attention. Tweets about an endemic cultural divide in the US and support for Black Lives Matter were shared by two Chinese embassy officials. But Taggart didn't write the tweets and hasn't been on the social media platform, now called X, in five years. Rather, his identity had been hijacked by a massive pro-China propaganda network, according to the social media analysis firm Graphika. “It's a similar feeling to being robbed,” Taggart said, speaking from Hawaii after Bloomberg News alerted him to the fake account. “If they thought that I promoted communism and hatred toward our country, and they really thought I was saying that, how horri...

Meta Platforms rolls out X (Twitter) rival Threads in European Union; eyes big spike in users

15Dec

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Meta Platforms rolls out X (Twitter) rival Threads in European Union; eyes big spike in users

[ad_1] Facebook owner Meta's text-based app Threads arrived in the European Union on Thursday, months after its global launch in July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Threads is a spin-off of the Instagram photo app and is intended to be a rival to X, formerly known as Twitter, after that platform alienated many users and advertisers following Elon Musk's purchase last year."Today we're opening Threads to more countries in Europe. Welcome everyone," Zuckerberg said on Threads. Threads went live in 100 countries earlier this year but not in the EU. Meta officials cited regulatory clarity as the reason for delaying the social network's arrival in Europe. Meta has repeatedly come under the EU's regulatory microscope, especially over concerns about how it uses people's data to serve highly t...

Walmart Is Latest Company to Stop Advertising on Musk’s X

2Dec

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Walmart Is Latest Company to Stop Advertising on Musk’s X

[ad_1] Walmart Inc. has stopped advertising on the social media platform X, the latest major company to do so. “We aren't advertising on X as we've found other platforms to better reach our customers,” a Walmart spokeswoman told Bloomberg News. She declined to say when the change takes effect or what motivated it. The exit of Walmart, the largest retailer in the US, adds to the growing number of companies that are abandoning the social platform previously known as Twitter after owner Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post. Musk said the post was “worst and dumbest I've ever done” earlier this week at the New York Times DealBook conference. One more thing! HT Tech is now on WhatsApp Channels! Follow us by clicking the link so you never miss any updates from the world of technology. Cli...

Elon Musk’s X Drama Hurts Tesla Where It Matters Most

21Nov

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Elon Musk’s X Drama Hurts Tesla Where It Matters Most

[ad_1] During a 1990 Senate race in his home state of North Carolina, Michael Jordan was asked why he didn't endorse the African-American Democratic candidate. He was still explaining his response — “Republicans buy sneakers too” — to reporters 30 years later, saying he wasn't an activist in the mold of Muhammad Ali: “I thought of myself as a basketball player.”Elon Musk may think of himself as an entrepreneur, and a celebrity one at that, but he wears many hats with enthusiasm, including as an activist in the cause of, as he sees it, free speech. His latest outrage, endorsing an antisemitic comment on X, has drawn a backlash, including companies pulling ads from the social media platform. But there may also be repercussions for the main source of his fame and wealth: Tesla Inc. Tesla h...

X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino Acknowledges That Some Advertisers Have Paused Spending

21Nov

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X’s CEO Linda Yaccarino Acknowledges That Some Advertisers Have Paused Spending

[ad_1] Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive officer of social media service X, acknowledged that some advertisers are taking a break from the platform following outrage over antisemitic content and commentary, some of it endorsed by the site's owner, Elon Musk.Yaccarino cited “a misleading and manipulated article” for spurring some advertisers to temporarily pause spending, a reference to a Media Matters piece that said ads from big brands were placed near offensive content. She follows Musk in criticizing the report, which they say misrepresents the experience on X, formerly Twitter. “The data will tell the real story,” Yaccarino said in a memo to staff on Sunday. “Because for all of us who work at X, we've been extremely clear about our efforts to combat antisemitism and discriminat...

IBM and EU pull ads from Elon Musk’s X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash

18Nov

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IBM and EU pull ads from Elon Musk’s X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash

[ad_1] Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.IBM said this week that it stopped advertising on X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis — a fresh setback as the platform formerly known as Twitter tries to win back big brands and their ad dollars, X's main source of revenue. The liberal advocacy group Media Matters said in a report Thursday that ads from Apple, Oracle, NBCUniversal's Bravo network and Comcast also were placed next to antisemitic material on X. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.“IBM has zero tolerance fo...

Elon Musk’s X restructuring curtails disinformation research, spurs legal fears

7Nov

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Elon Musk’s X restructuring curtails disinformation research, spurs legal fears

[ad_1] Social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter, as a result of actions taken by Elon Musk that limit access to the social media platform, nearly a dozen interviews and a survey of planned projects show.Musk's restrictions on critical methods of gathering data on the global platform have suppressed the ability to untangle the origin and spread of false information during real-time events such as Hamas' attack on Israel and the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, researchers told Reuters. The most important method was a tool that gave researchers access to data about 10 million tweets per month. Twitter notified researchers in February it would end free academic access to this application programming interface (API) as part of a...