twitter Twitter Imposes Strict Daily Reading Limits to Combat Data Scraping Twitter restricts users to reading between 300 and 6,000 posts per day depending on their account status. The sudden limits cause widespread outages and broken feeds across the social network.
elon musk Elon Musk Launches Public Feud With Apple Over Ads and App Store Access Elon Musk publicly attacks Apple for cutting advertising spending and threatening to remove Twitter from the App Store. The conflict jeopardizes a vital revenue stream and access to over a billion mobile devices.
ftx Crypto Firms Reveal FTX Exposure as Bankman-Fried Tweets Defense Crypto companies use Twitter to confess their financial ties to the collapsed FTX exchange. Meanwhile, former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried slowly tweets his side of the story.
twitter Twitter Employs Poison Pill Strategy to Thwart Elon Musk Takeover Twitter adopts a shareholder rights plan, commonly known as a poison pill, to prevent Elon Musk from acquiring a controlling stake in the company. The defensive strategy makes a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive for the billionaire.
elon musk Elon Musk Abruptly Declines Twitter Board Seat Elon Musk officially declines to join Twitter's board of directors, leaving his future plans and stake in the company unclear. The surprise decision removes restrictions on how much of the social media platform he can own.
taylor swift Taylor Swift Deepfakes Spark Urgent Calls for Government AI Regulation Explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift go viral on social media, prompting swift condemnation from Hollywood and the White House.
taylor swift X Blocks Taylor Swift Searches Amid Widespread AI Deepfake Scandal X temporarily breaks search results for Taylor Swift following the viral spread of explicit AI-generated deepfake images. The White House and SAG-AFTRA speak out, urging new legislation to combat non-consensual AI content.
taylor swift X Blocks Taylor Swift Searches Following Viral Explicit Deepfake Scandal X prevents users from searching for Taylor Swift after sexually explicit AI deepfakes of the singer accumulate millions of views. The platform faces ongoing criticism over its delayed response to nonconsensual deepfake content.
taylor swift X Blocks Taylor Swift Searches Following Viral AI Deepfake Controversy X makes Taylor Swift's name unsearchable after sexually explicit AI-generated images of the singer go viral. The White House and SAG-AFTRA speak out against the harmful deepfakes, urging stricter enforcement of platform rules.
taylor swift Taylor Swift Deepfake Scandal Sparks Outrage and Tech Policy Changes Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift spread rapidly across social media in early 2024, prompting widespread condemnation and immediate action from tech companies. The controversy highlights the growing threat of deepfake pornography and fuels calls for new legislative regulations.
taylor swift Taylor Swift Deepfake Scandal Exposes Flaws in Social Media Moderation Fake AI-generated images of Taylor Swift flood X, highlighting the platform's inability to control non-consensual deepfakes. The controversy forces X to announce new moderation hires ahead of a Senate hearing on online safety.
taylor swift Taylor Swift AI Deepfakes Expose X Platform Moderation Failures Explicit AI-generated deepfake images of Taylor Swift amass millions of views on X, highlighting major gaps in platform moderation. The viral spread underscores the growing threat of nonconsensual artificial intelligence content online.
misinformation Social Media Pullbacks Make Israel-Hamas Misinformation Nearly Impossible to Track Researchers warn that reduced content moderation and changing platform policies make it extremely difficult to track misleading content about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Changes at X, including paid verification, are allowing propaganda to spread more easily and gain algorithmic priority.
x X Updates Terms of Service to Explicitly Allow AI Training on User Posts X forces users to accept updated Terms of Service that explicitly grant the platform permission to use public posts for artificial intelligence training. Non-European users have no way to opt out of this broad data usage policy.
twitter Elon Musk Transforms Twitter Into X to Build 'Everything App' Twitter officially rebrands as X as Elon Musk pursues his vision of a multifunctional super-app similar to WeChat. The platform now aims to handle comprehensive communications and entire financial transactions for its users.