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☆ Trump accused of 'inciting violence' after sharing video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump shared an image of Joe Biden hog-tied on the tailgate of a passing pickup truck. The Republican presidential nominee was accused of inciting violence against President Joe Biden. AdvertisementRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump faced criticism Friday for posting a video on his social media that showed President Joe Biden hog-tied on the tailgate of a passing pickup truck. Trump just posted a video of a pickup truck on Truth Social that has a giant image of President Biden bound with rope and laying, apparently kidnapped. Related stories"Democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against President Trump and his family, they are actually weaponizing the justice system against him."

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☆ Trump claimed his E. Jean Carroll defamations were the best thing that ever happened to her. Here's how the grotesque tactic met its end.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementE. Jean Carroll surrounded by her defense team after winning an $83 million defamation verdict against Donald Trump. That's because "such benefits are irrelevant as a matter of law," Carroll attorney Joshua Matz wrote to Judge Kaplan. Donald Trump attends the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial in New York with attorney Alina Habba. Carroll attorney Joshua Matz thought not. In her closing arguments, Habba, Trump's lead attorney, argued that Carroll "is a woman who was exuberant and enjoying newfound attention."

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☆ E. Jean Carroll judge bench-slaps Trump's attorney 14 times over basic lawyering in a single day of testimony
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

"I need a transcript to be able to work with this," Kaplan told Habba. "Elaine's is a very popular restaurant, isn't it," Habba asked Carroll, of the celebrity-packed Upper East Side bar where she'd been a regular. Habba asked. Habba asked Carroll. Habba asked Carroll.

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☆ Anna Indiana is the world's first all-AI singer-songwriter. She's deeply mediocre.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Kieran Press-Reynolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The new completely AI-generated musician Anna Indiana was met with fierce backlash online. She's Anna Indiana, the first musician whose entire existence — from the image and singing to the music's chord progression, key, tempo, and lyrics — is claimed to have been generated by artificial intelligence, without human involvement. I’m Anna Indiana and I’m an AI singer-songwriter. Everything from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm, lyrics, and my image and singing, is auto-generated using AI. Indiana's music is middling, but it's not egregiously unlistenable.

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[1/2] Twitter logo and a photo of Elon Musk are displayed through magnifier in this illustration taken October 27, 2022. The billionaire CEO of Twitter and Tesla also said Apple was pressuring Twitter over content moderation demands. Parler was restored by Apple in 2021 after the app updated its content and moderation practices, the companies said at the time. "Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Musk also said "yes" in response to a user question on whether Apple was threatening Twitter's presence in the App Store or making moderation demands.

☆ A look back at Elon Musk's chaotic first month at Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Sunday officially marks one month since the world’s richest man took the helm at Twitter. After spending months embroiled in an unsuccessful legal battle to get out of his initial proposal to buy Twitter, Musk made his first splashy entrance into the company’s offices on Oct. 26, carrying a sink. (In a video of the incident shared on Twitter, he wrote: “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!) In another dramatic move by the new boss, Musk publicly fired a software engineer who had survived the initial round of cuts, but who then questioned Musk on Twitter. Musk goes onto to grant ‘amnesty’ to most previously banned accountsAfter conducting yet another Twitter poll, Musk said on Nov. 24 that he will begin restoring most previously banned accounts on Twitter starting next week.

☆ Elon Musk says Stephen King is 'one of most creative people on Earth' despite the author calling him a 'terrible fit' for Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday that Stephen King is "one of the most creative people on Earth." It followed King's tweet commending Musk's Tesla work but calling him a "terrible fit" for Twitter. Musk went on to tweet he would welcome suggestions from the author on running Twitter. King tweeted on Saturday: "I think Elon Musk is a visionary. The following day, podcast host Graham Allen told Musk over Twitter to ignore King.

☆ Elon Musk says Twitter to provide 'amnesty' to some suspended accounts starting next week
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 24 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Thursday that Twitter will provide a "general amnesty" to suspended accounts starting next week after running a poll on whether to do so for users who had not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam. In a poll Musk posted on Twitter on Wednesday, 72.4% of the more than 3.16 million users who took part voted in favor of bringing back those who had been suspended by the social media platform. loading"The people have spoken," Musk, who acquired Twitter last month, tweeted on Thursday. loadingLast week, Musk, the world's richest person, reinstated some previously suspended accounts, including former U.S. President Donald Trump, satirical website Babylon Bee and comedian Kathy Griffin. Earlier Thursday, Musktweeted that Twitter users might notice small, sometimes major improvements in the platform's speed, which would be significant in countries far away from the United States.

CNN Business —Elon Musk said Thursday that he will begin restoring most previously banned accounts on Twitter starting next week, in his most wide-reaching move yet to undo the social media platform’s policy of permanently suspending users who repeatedly violated its rules. It is not immediately clear how Musk and his team at Twitter will sort out which accounts had been banned for illegal or spam content versus other violations, nor how many total accounts will be restored. Musk has also restored the accounts of several other controversial, previously banned or suspended users, including conservative Canadian podcaster Jordan Peterson, right-leaning satire website Babylon Bee, comedian Kathy Griffin and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Shortly after acquiring Twitter, Musk said he would create a “content moderation council” with “widely diverse viewpoints,” and that no major content decisions would be made until it was in place. Musk has said the departure of key Twitter advertisers in recent weeks has led to a “massive drop in revenue” for the company.

☆ Elon Musk says he backtracked on his plan to consult a content moderation council before reinstating Donald Trump because activist groups 'broke the deal' they had with Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Musk lifted the Twitter ban on Trump and others without consulting a content moderation council. Musk allowed Trump back on Twitter based on the results of a poll, but Trump has not tweeted since. But Musk restored former president Donald Trump's Twitter account on Saturday after conducting a Twitter poll asking if he should — not after consulting any sort of council. After taking over Twitter in his $44 billion deal, Musk announced the platform would form a content moderation council "with widely diverse viewpoints." Last Friday, before reinstating Trump's account, Musk tweeted that he had lifted the ban on comedian Kathy Griffin, Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, and satirical right-wing website The Babylon Bee.

☆ The Twitter Blue relaunch is on hold until the platform can sort out impersonation issues with 'high confidence,' Elon Musk says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says Twitter Blue's relaunch is on hold until it can deal with impersonation issues. "Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation," Musk tweeted late on Monday. Musk's announcement comes after the social media platform halted its relaunch of Twitter Blue — which gives users a blue tick if they pay $8 a month — due to widespread impersonation issues. The billionaire's latest update also supersedes his earlier announcement that Twitter Blue would return on November 29. Twitter suspended its verification relaunch on November 11, and started focusing on solving impersonation issues, per Platformer's Zoe Schiffer, who cited an internal note.

☆ 'Toxic Twitter' activists ramp up pressure on brands after Trump account reinstated
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The groups in the Stop Toxic Twitter coalition complained that Musk had vowed to advertisers that Twitter would take a considered approach to reinstating banned accounts and convene a new content moderation council. Twitter began reinstating banned or suspended accounts late last week including the comedian Kathy Griffin as well as Trump. The platform also reinstated the personal Twitter account of U.S. House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday. Major brands HBO and Mondelez were Twitter's top two advertisers in the week before the acquisition, according to data from Pathmatics. Pathmatics data showed that the top 100 advertisers between Nov. 10 to Nov. 16 spent an estimated $23.6 million on Twitter, down from $24.

Slightly over 15 million Twitter users voted in the poll with 51.8% voting in favor of reinstatement. Trump will be reinstated," Musk tweeted. Some users initially reported being unable to follow the reinstated account on Saturday evening. He also said Twitter would not reinstate any banned users until there was a "clear process for doing so." He has used Truth Social to promote his allies, criticize opponents and defend his reputation amid legal scrutiny from state, congressional and federal investigators.

Slightly over 15 million Twitter users voted in the poll with 51.8% voting in favor of reinstatement. But Trump also said Twitter suffered from bots, fake accounts and that the problems it faced were "incredible". He also said Twitter would not reinstate any banned users until there was a "clear process for doing so." Truth Social has been Trump’s main source of direct communication with his followers since he began posting on the app regularly in May. He has used Truth Social to promote his allies, criticize opponents and defend his reputation amid legal scrutiny from state, congressional and federal investigators.

☆ Donald Trump appears to snub Twitter as Elon Musk reinstates the former president
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump has said that he sees no reason to rejoin Twitter, Reuters reported. Elon Musk reinstated the former president's account on Saturday night following a Twitter poll. Trump's Twitter account had more than 88 million followers before he was banned on January 8, 2021. Addressing if he'd be rejoining Twitter, Trump said: "I don't see any reason for it. Musk previously told a Financial Times conference, "I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump," adding, "I think that was a mistake.

☆ Elon Musk says 'Hey stop defaming me' after coming under fire for letting Donald Trump back on Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk said on Saturday night he would restore Donald Trump's Twitter account. "For @elonmusk to allow Donald Trump back on Twitter, ostensibly after a brief poll, shows he is not remotely serious about safeguarding the platform from hate, harassment and misinformation." Musk said in May it was "not correct to ban Donald Trump." It alienated the country and did not result in Donald Trump not having a voice. Twitter and a representative for Donald Trump didn't immediately respond to a request for comment by Insider.

☆ Here are the suspended Twitter accounts that have been reinstated since Elon Musk took over
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Isabella Zavarise | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, promising to uphold free speech, some accounts were reinstated. Some accounts previously banned or suspended have been revived, but in typical Musk fashion, the reinstatements haven't come without controversy. After 51% of respondents voted "yes," the billionaire owner restored Trump's Twitter account the next day. After five years, his Twitter account was reinstated. After being suspended, Peterson filmed a nearly 15-minute long YouTube video, saying he would rather die than delete the hateful tweet.

☆ CBS News Suspends Twitter Posting ‘In Light of the Uncertainty’ About Musk-Owned Social Platform
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

CBS News is halting its activity on Twitter over Elon Musk’s turbulent and potentially devastating moves following his takeover of the company. A statement with nearly identical wording was shared Friday by the Twitter account of KPIX, the CBS-owned station in San Francisco. Another looming question: whether Musk will allow Trump back on Twitter. On Friday, Musk launched a poll asking his 116 million-plus followers whether Twitter should reinstate Trump. After the mass resignations at Twitter, Musk — the richest individual in the world — called an emergency meeting of engineers Friday, requesting that “anyone who actually writes software” report to the company’s San Francisco headquarters.

Musk, Twitter's new owner, said in May he would reverse Twitter's ban on Trump, whose account was suspended after last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol. Musk's decision to ask Twitter users for guidance on who should be on the platform is part of a huge restructuring of the company, including massive layoffs. Twitter told employees on Thursday that it would close its offices and cut badge access until Monday, according to two sources. In his first email to Twitter employees this month, Musk warned that Twitter may not be able to "survive the upcoming economic downturn." Amid the changes, Moody's withdrew its B1 credit rating for Twitter, saying it had insufficient information to maintain the rating.

☆ Elon Musk encourages Twitter engineers to fly in for in-person meetings
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Hyunjoo Jin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter told employees on Thursday that it would close its offices and cut badge access until Monday, according to two sources. In his first email to Twitter employees this month, Musk warned that Twitter may not be able to "survive the upcoming economic downturn." When a Twitter user asked Musk to reinstate conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Musk replied with a curt "no." "There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in one of the emails. Musk wrote on Twitter late on Thursday that he was not worried about resignations as "the best people are staying."

☆ Elon Musk takes aim at 'hate tweets' as his poll about letting Donald Trump back on Twitter gets '~1M votes/hour'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk announced Twitter's latest policy, which targets negative and hate tweets on the site. Twitter's new owner is also asking users if he should let Donald Trump back on the platform. Musk, who is also chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, previously announced plans to create a "content moderation council" at Twitter, but was still undecided about letting Donald Trump back on Twitter. On Friday Musk decided to ask Twitter users about the matter by tweeting a poll. Musk has backpedaled from his standpoint in May when he told The Financial Times he would "reverse the permaban" on Trump's Twitter account.

CNN —Former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been reinstated on the platform. The account, which Twitter banned following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, was restored after Twitter CEO and new owner Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter on Friday night asking the platform’s users if Trump should be reinstated. Asked on Saturday what he thought of Musk purchasing Twitter and his own future on the platform, Trump praised Musk but questioned whether the site would survive its current crises. It may make it, it may not make it.”Still, Trump said he liked Musk and “liked that he bought (Twitter. Soon after Trump’s Twitter ban, he was also restricted from Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, which could also restore his accounts as soon as January 2023.

☆ Elon Musk polls Twitter: Reinstate Trump?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amid his chaotic takeover, Elon Musk polled Twitter users on whether to reinstate Trump's account. Twitter banned Trump in January 2021 following the Capitol riot, citing "the risk of further incitement of violence." Musk in May said he would reinstate Trump's account following his acquisition of the company, calling the decision to ban the former president "morally wrong and flat out stupid." Trump has said he won't return to Twitter even if his account is reinstated, saying he prefers his own platform, Truth Social. I like it better, I like the way it works, I like Elon, but I'm staying on Truth," Trump told Fox News last month.

☆ Elon Musk says no decision yet on Trump's Twitter ban as he reinstates others
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( David Ingram | David Ingram Covers Tech For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Friday he was bringing back three high-profile accounts that had been suspended for breaking the service's rules, but he said he hadn't made a decision about former President Donald Trump's account. "Trump decision has not yet been made," Musk said in a tweet, as Twitter users braced for sweeping changes on the service that Musk bought three weeks ago. It may be only a matter of time before Musk reinstates Trump. Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account in January 2021, citing his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and the potential for more violence. It was not clear if Musk had made any changes to Twitter's policies that ban hate speech and harassment.

☆ Elon Musk changes his tune on letting Donald Trump back on Twitter, says 'decision has not yet been made'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk isn't sure whether he'll reinstate former President Donald Trump's Twitter account. As for Trump, the "decision has not been made," Musk said. In May, he told the Financial Times he would "reverse the permaban" on the former president's account, calling the original Twitter decision "morally wrong and flat-out stupid." Musk said the ban "ultimately did not result in Donald Trump not having a voice," since he moved communication to Truth Social, his Twitter-like social media company. Twitter booted Trump from its site following the January 6, 2021 riot on the US Capitol, citing the "risk of further incitement of violence."

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