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Within days, millions of TikTok videos using music from Universal artists went mute, and since then guessing which side would blink first has become a media-business parlor game. Backing this up, one study found that TikTok users reported experiencing higher levels of flow than Instagram users. Corey Basch, who analyzed 100 popular TikTok videos with the hashtag mentalhealth for a 2022 study, emerged concerned about the looping effect of the algorithm. Cerave Sales increased by more than 60 percent in 2020 after skin care became a lockdown pastime and TikTok users discovered the drugstore mainstay. Cat Crack Catnip It briefly sold out in 2021 after TikTok users posted videos of their cats going crazy for it.

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☆ Elon Musk’s reversal on blue checkmarks shows his desperation to lure high-profile users back to X
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk has given up, restoring the “lords and peasants” blue checkmark system he once admonished and assailed as elitism. “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” Musk wrote in November 2022. But most journalists and other notable users who once sported the checkmark declined to fork over the cash. Even worse, trolls impersonating the identities of others were granted blue checkmarks, stripping the symbol of its core value: identity verification. A representative for X did not respond to a request for comment on Musk’s move to restore the blue checkmarks.

Persons: New York CNN — Elon Musk, Twitter’s, X, Musk, ” Musk, Musk —, —, “ Organizations: New York CNN Locations: New York

☆ Elon Musk’s X is back to giving out free blue checks. It’s no surprise they were a tough sell
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —It appears that Elon Musk has finally (mostly) given up on trying to make paid blue checks on X a thing. The return of the free blue check may be a sign that the blue check subscription business hasn’t panned out the way that Musk hoped. Musk’s purge of legacy blue checks was a messy, months-long process. And when anyone could buy a blue check, it was no longer an exclusive symbol that conferred some kind of status. Within hours of the unpaid blue checks reappearing, users were sharing advice about how to ensure they didn’t show up on their profiles.

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OpenAI is reinstating CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors and said it has “full confidence” in his leadership after the conclusion of an outside investigation into the company's turmoil. After months of investigation, it found that Altman's ouster was a “consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust” between him and the prior board, OpenAI said in a summary of the findings Friday. The investigation found the prior board acted within its discretion. “The review concluded there was a significant breakdown in trust between the prior board, and Sam and Greg,” Bret Taylor, the board’s chair, told reporters Friday. After it retained the law firm in December, OpenAI said WilmerHale conducted dozens of interviews with the company’s prior board, current executives, advisers and other witnesses.

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☆ Why can’t we stop calling X, Twitter?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Saira Mueller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

While some people (mainly fans of Musk) have embraced the X brand, most have not. Many people, both online and in person, still call the platform Twitter, and refer to posts as tweets. WHY ARE WE STILL CALLING THIS PLATFORM TWITTER. Even when you do see X, it's framed as "X, formerly Twitter". So the brand is what they say it is… it’s not that customers can’t stop calling it Twitter, it’s that they won’t.”

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☆ Who can rein in Elon Musk? Someone you’ve probably never heard of
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But this week, a Delaware state judge handed down a message that Musk and other powerful men in America seldom hear: Nope. The outcome of Musk’s pay package dispute is the latest instance of a towering, brash business leader getting put in his place by the one institution powerful enough to do so: US courts. Kathaleen McCormick struck down Elon Musk’s 2018 Tesla pay package after an investor challenged it as excessive. Kathleen Flynn/ReutersAmong the threads connecting Musk, Trump and McMahon is a history of evading negative consequences. “And if that’s the case, let that be a message to other people: The litigation system actually does work.”The pay package dispute wasn’t McCormick’s first rodeo with Musk.

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Image A watch party for Mr. Trump in Des Moines on Monday night. Credit... Haiyun Jiang for The New York TimesInstead, if Mr. Trump wins next week’s New Hampshire primary, a march to a third nomination is all but certain. Some in the news media were reluctant to direct their audiences to Mr. Trump, especially shortly after he left office, for fear that it would only amplify his lies about his election loss. Since 2016, both Republican and Democratic leaders have often agreed that it helps Democrats to have Mr. Trump at the political fore. Mr. Biden has signaled his plans to highlight Mr. Trump’s efforts to subvert his loss in the 2020 election, invoking the attack on the Capitol and Mr. Trump’s revisionist history of what happened.

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☆ Sam Altman's return to OpenAI means he joins Steve Jobs and Jack Dorsey on a list of CEOs who left companies they founded – then eventually came back.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple’s Steve Jobs and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey made similar comebacks at the companies they founded. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementPerhaps the most obvious example is Steve Jobs, who famously left Apple in 1985 after a boardroom struggle. If your company's board is willing to get rid of you once, they'll probably do it again.

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☆ Opinion | Why on Earth Are Jewish Leaders Praising Elon Musk?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

(In response, Musk threatened a “thermonuclear” lawsuit, but as of this writing does not appear to have filed one.) Abhorrence of the Jewish state slips easily into abhorrence of Jews. On the right, though, there’s a mirror image of this slippage, with some defenders of the Jewish state willing to make excuses for antisemites so long as they champion Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has regularly embraced nationalist leaders who deploy antisemitic tropes, Donald Trump chief among them. It’s hard to figure out who is behaving more cynically, Musk or the Jewish leaders who are koshering him.

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☆ X fails in court to terminate FTC privacy order or block Musk’s deposition
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The 11-page order by US Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixon denies X’s attempt to invalidate a longtime privacy settlement with the FTC that forms the basis for the investigation. For the same reason, Hixon said he could not block the FTC from trying to depose Musk as part of the probe. Questions about whether the company has complied with the 2011 order arose in a significant way in 2022. And the investigation has only intensified since Musk’s takeover of the company, prompting X to protest what it has called government overreach and harassment of Musk. The FTC has said that it is attempting to carry out its mission to ensure X is complying with its legal obligations.

Persons: Elon Musk, Judge Thomas Hixon, Hixon, Musk, Musk’s, Peiter “ Mudge ” Zatko, X, X didn’t Organizations: CNN, Federal Trade Commission, Court, Northern, Northern District of, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Twitter, FTC Locations: Northern District, Northern District of California

☆ Online hate watchdog moves to dismiss lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Nonprofit online watchdog the Center for Countering Digital Hate on Thursday hit back at Elon Musk’s X in a motion to dismiss the social media company’s August lawsuit. CCDH claims that X’s lawsuit is “riddled with legal deficiencies” and attempts to punish the nonprofit for its First Amendment protected speech, according to its Thursday filing in the Northern District Court of California. X and a lawyer representing the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on CCDH’s Thursday filing. In its complaint against CCDH, X alleges it has lost “at least tens of millions of dollars” in advertising revenue. “Instead, X Corp. has ginned up baseless claims purporting to take issue with how the CCDH Defendants gathered data that formed the basis for their research.”

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☆ Elon Musk laid him off. Now he’s aiming to build a social network that’s better than X
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

They wanted it to be everything most social media struggles to be: positive, safe and inclusive. And as the user base of the platform now known as X splinters, so does Black Twitter, the community of Black users that was a big part of Twitter’s growth and culture. Legacy social media platforms have repeatedly failed to anticipate how their products might be manipulated or misused until something goes wrong. Alphonzo Terrell, co-founder of the social media app Spill, demonstrates how the platform works during an interview with CNN. CNNEven with AI content moderation models, other social media companies often fail to catch harmful content that makes it onto their platforms.

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☆ Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the platform and its cultural impact have fundamentally changed
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Brian Fung | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) account of how Musk has fundamentally changed Twitter since he made one of the most consequential acquisitions of the social media age. Many of Musk’s content and product decisions have also led to what civil society groups have reported as a troubling spread of hateful speech on the platform. He recommended that X users monitor the Israel-Hamas conflict by following an account known for spreading disinformation, before later deleting his post. And, in an attempt to prove that former Twitter executives deliberately discriminated against conservatives on the platform, Musk provided a handpicked group of journalists with selective access to company records. It is perhaps Musk’s all-consuming presence that has most undermined what users used to love about Twitter.

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The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, says it is struggling with a flood of posts sharing graphic media, violent speech and hateful conduct about the Israel-Hamas war. But it has received a broadside of criticism, including from a top European Union official, questioning the adequacy of the response. One former member of Twitter’s public policy team said the company is having a harder time taking action on posts that violate its policies because there aren’t enough people to do that work. “X believes that, while difficult, it’s in the public’s interest to understand what’s happening in real time,” its statement said. “With the global crisis unfolding, Linda and her team must remain fully focused on X platform safety,” X told the organizers of the WSJ Tech Live conference being held next week in Laguna Beach, California.

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☆ X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says Platform Should Turn Profit in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Alexa Corse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Twitter’s next CEO, Linda Yaccarino, is well-known for her tight relationship with ad agencies and her hard-nosed negotiating tactics. WSJ’s Suzanne Vranica explains what she can bring to the social media company. Photo: Charles Sykes/NBCUniversal/Getty Images (Published earlier this year)X Corp. Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino said on Wednesday the company is “just about break even” in terms of operating cash-flow and should turn a profit early next year. Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s former ad-sales czar who joined the company, formerly called Twitter, in June, has faced questions about how much she can rebuild X’s ad business after tumult under company owner Elon Musk, who acquired the platform late last year and swiftly cut thousands of jobs, upended features like verification and loosened content-moderation policies.

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☆ Donald Trump Jr.'s X account was hacked, spokesman says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Washington CNN —A spokesman for former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Donald Trump Jr.’s account on X – the platform formerly known as Twitter – had been compromised after the account began sharing a series of unusual and erratic posts. “Don’s account has been hacked,” Andrew Surabian posted on X, adding that a post claiming the former president had died was “obviously not true.”In addition to falsely pronouncing the death of the senior Trump, the compromised account also claimed that Trump Jr. would be running for president himself. Within minutes, the post had been reshared more than 1,000 times on X and viewed hundreds of thousands of times. The incident raises fresh questions about X’s role in securing user accounts, particularly those belonging to high-profile political figures as the platform prepares for the 2024 elections. It is also unclear whether the compromise may have resulted in unauthorized access of Trump Jr.’s private direct messages, or whether Trump Jr. may have had two-factor authentication enabled on his account.

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☆ I Was Attacked by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I Believe It Was a Strategy To Change What You See Online. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Yoel Roth | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The timing of the campaign targeting me and my alleged bias suggested the attacks were part of a well-planned strategy. But the success of a strategy aimed at forcing social media companies to reconsider their choices may not require demonstrating actual wrongdoing. What happened to me was part of a calculated effort to make Twitter reluctant to moderate Mr. Trump in the future and to dissuade other companies from taking similar steps. of Twitter, overruled Trust and Safety’s recommendation that Mr. Trump’s account should be banned because of several tweets, including one that attacked Vice President Mike Pence. So Twitter only disclosed the campaign over a year later, without fingering the Indian government as the perpetrator.

Persons: Rich Bond, Trump, Jack Dorsey, Mike Pence, Marjorie Taylor Greene, —, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Republican, Capitol, Twitter, Apple, Google Locations: Silicon, TikTok, India, Moscow

☆ Elon Musk should be forced to testify on X’s ‘chaotic environment,’ US regulator tells court
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Washington CNN —Elon Musk should be forced to testify in an expansive US government probe of X, the company formerly known as Twitter, the US government said. The government said mass layoffs and other decisions Musk made raised questions about X’s ability to comply with the law and to protect users’ privacy. Other planned upgrades to the company’s security program were “impaired,” the filing said, citing a deposition by the former chief information security officer, Lea Kissner. In another example, Musk personally tried to rush the rollout of Twitter Blue, the company’s paid subscription service, the filing said. But in its filing, the US government said its interest in Musk’s testimony is well-justified based on the appearance of a “chaotic environment” at X driven by “sudden, radical changes at the company” following Musk’s acquisition.

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☆ Elon Musk Takes Aim at the ADL - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( David Austin Walsh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men who is now most famous for running the website X, formerly known as Twitter, has a new excuse for the company’s shaky performance since he bought it last year. The problem, according to Mr. Musk, is the Jews. A 2018 report by the ADL noted that 4.2 million antisemitic tweets had been shared or re-shared on the platform in the previous year, before Twitter’s ban on extremist accounts took effect. Mr. Musk largely reversed those policies under the aegis of free speech. Mr. Musk also blamed a collapse in the company’s value — estimates place the company’s current worth at roughly one-third the $44 billion Mr. Musk paid for it — on the ADL, saying that he was considering legal action against the ADL and signaling that he supported banning the organization from X.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, @ADL ”, “, Jack Dorsey Organizations: Twitter, Defamation, ADL Locations: Nazi

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☆ An Elevator Expert Explains How to Move People Up 118 Floors, Fast
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

From Twitter to X: Why Musk is Resurrecting His Favorite DomainIn late July, Elon Musk shifted Twitter’s name to X, a major change for the brand. But it’s not the first time the tech billionaire has used the URL x.com. WSJ explains what the site’s past could signal about its future.

Persons: Elon Musk, it’s Organizations: Twitter

But it was justified in Musk’s mind because of his conviction that Twitter’s management had misled him. At 4:12 p.m. Pacific time, once they had confirmation that the money had transferred, Musk pulled the trigger to close the deal. But when his Twitter email was cut off, it took him a few minutes to get the document into a Gmail message. Hybrid work is winningChief executives aren’t letting up on their push to get workers back to the office. And even Zoom, a symbol of remote work, has ordered some of its employees to work in the office.

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☆ The Mysterious Allure of a Mogul’s Favorite Letter
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Ben Zimmer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ever since Elon Musk announced in late July that Twitter was going to be rebranded as X, the decision has generated no end of agita from longtime users of the social-media platform. Lately some fans of the pre-Musk regime have even deployed online tools to banish the new stylized X logo from their screens and bring back Twitter’s familiar blue bird.

Persons: Elon Musk Organizations: Twitter

☆ Here’s what Donald Trump’s return to X could mean for the platform’s business
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Trump’s return appeared to be welcomed by X owner Musk, who has been encouraging politicians and public figures to post on the site in a bid to improve user numbers. If Trump decides to return to regularly posting on X, it could be a major boon to the platform’s effort to attract an audience as it faces increased competition. Trump’s return “should have a positive impact on [X’s] engagement at a time when it needs it,” D.A. What’s more, after making his return to X, Trump appeared to try to clarify where his loyalty lies. !” Trump posted on the X competitor platform.

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☆ How Russian Minefields Hinder Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

From Twitter to X: Why Musk is Resurrecting His Favorite Domain In late July, Elon Musk shifted Twitter’s name to X, a major change for the brand. But it’s not the first time the tech billionaire has used the URL x.com. WSJ explains what the site’s past could signal about its future.

Persons: Elon Musk, it’s Organizations: Twitter

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