If endorsing antisemitic posts wasn’t enough, Elon Musk has now advanced several rungs in the batshit conspiracy ladder into engaging with a post pushing Pizzagate. Last week, Musk wrote “You have said the actual truth” in response to a post from an X user claiming Jewish people were responsible for …
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After major public figures like LeBron James and Stephen King refused to pay for blue checks, Elon Musk admitted on Thursday to footing their subscription bills — not that they asked. The Twitter CEO finally purged the unpaid “legacy” blue checks from the platform, a goal of his since taking …
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UPDATE: A day after Twitter permanently suspended her personal account for pushing Covid-19 misinformation, Marjorie Taylor Greene says she has been suspended from posting on Facebook for 24 hours. “Facebook has joined Twitter in censoring me,” she wrote on the social network Gab, attaching a screenshot noting that she can’t …
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If it seems like you’re seeing more conservative than liberal politicians on your Twitter feed, it’s because you are. The company released a study last Thursday finding a “statistically significant difference favoring the political right wing,” when it comes to which tweets are amplified. There is nothing more sacred to …
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On Wednesday, the model Chrissy Teigen, who had accumulated 13.7 million followers on Twitter since joining in 2009, wrote that she would be deleting her Twitter account. “Hey. For over 10 years, you guys have been my world. I honestly owe so much to this world we have created here. …
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