Facebook’s new Twitter clone, “Threads,” will not “encourage” hard news and politics, said head of Instagram Adam Mosseri, who added that the social media platform is an app for users who are interested in a “less angry” environment.
Twitter is considering legal action against Facebook (now known as Meta) over Threads, its recently launched Twitter clone. Elon Musk said in a tweet that, “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”
Threads, the Twitter clone touted by Facebook executives as the “sanely run” alternative to Elon Musk’s Twitter, has launched with the company’s characteristic political bias, censoring Donald Trump Jr. with a warning message the platform’s first day of operation.
In a significant move in the social media landscape, Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled “Threads,” his Twitter clone. Taking a jab at competitor Elon Musk, Zuck celebrated the launch of his newest platform by posting his first tweet in more than a decade.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone, Threads, is trumpeting an explosive start with 10 million signups in just seven hours, but users are surprised to learn about a catch built in to the new platform. People that set up a Threads profile and decided to delete it learned that doing so will delete their Instagram account as well.
Facebook’s latest social media platform, Threads, was briefly available on the web today, providing an early look at the app set to officially launch on July 6. Threads is widely regarded as a clone of Twitter, which Facebook promises will be “sanely run.”
Google has announced that it now reserves the right to scrape virtually all content posted online to enhance its AI tools. The internet giant’s privacy policy now doesn’t just describe how the Masters of the Universe will use all your personal data in its products to generate ad revenue, but also explains it considers the entire internet fair game for its relentless data collection systems.
In an attempt to tap into a vast new market, Facebook (now known as Meta) is in discussions with Tencent, the world’s largest video game publisher, to introduce its Quest VR headset to China. Mark Zuckerberg’s company reportedly faces an uphill battle in selling its wares in the communist country.
Threads, the soon-to-be-launched app touted by Facebook (now known as Meta) as the “sane” alternative to Elon Musk’s Twitter, will — much like other Facebook apps — collect a dizzying array of details about its users.
Kentucky has become the first state to mandate the inclusion of Tesla’s charging plug, known as the North American Charging Standard (NACS), in electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that receive state funding. The mandate is a significant victory for Tesla kingpin Elon Musk.
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has voiced his thoughts on the uproar caused by Elon Musk’s decision to impose “view limits” on tweets. The notorious free speech failure says that “running Twitter is hard.”
Apple has made history by becoming the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a market capitalization of $3 trillion. The iPhone giant has flirted with the landmark valuation in the past, but failed to achieve the market at the close of trading until Friday.
Dennis Hegstad, a Tesla owner from Texas, was left stranded when he couldn’t access his Model 3. His electric vehicle had 130 miles of charge available, but was completely locked up, requiring a tow to a service center. He believes the car’s 12-volt battery failed under the relentless Texas summer heat.
A podcast hosted by comedian Theo Von and featuring Roseanne Barr was blacklisted by YouTube after the pair engaged in a sarcastic discussion about the misinformation policies of social media platforms.
“Uncensored” AI chatbots being used by pedophiles to generate child pornography and graphic sexual abuse fantasies. The FBI warns of a spike in internet predators using open-source AI tech to create “sexually-themed images that appear true-to-life.”
Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk has announced limits for how many tweets users can read in a day, causing confusion and frustration among social media users in multiple countries. Musk claims that the limits are temporary.
Internal messages show Microsoft employees are angry with CEO Satya Nadella after he thanked them for a “landmark” fiscal year while they deal with a pay freeze and reduced bonuses. One worker said, “I wonder where the record profits come from? For myself, I don’t feel privileged at all for working here.”
Confidential details about Sony’s PlayStation business were inadvertently disclosed during an FTC hearing on Microsoft, revealing key insights into the company’s operations and financials. The details were exposed after documents had sensitive details redacted with a sharpie marker, which became visible when the documents were scanned into digital form.
A “cage match” between billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might actually happen, as talks over the event have reportedly progressed.
The FTC is set to file a landmark antitrust lawsuit against e-commerce giant Amazon. The federal agency believes Amazon uses its market dominance to unfairly disadvantage sellers on the platform who don’t use its logistics services.
Elon Musk’s Twitter has apparently changed its settings so that people are unable to browse tweets on the social media platform unless they are signed into a Twitter account. The change is likely an attempt by Musk’s company to grow its stagnate userbase.
New research suggests that Google, the tech giant with a stranglehold on the digital ads market, has been violating its own standards when placing video ads on YouTube and third-party websites up to 80 percent of the time.
An open letter signed by over 250 celebrities in the legacy entertainment industry including Jamie Lee Curtis and Ellen “Elliot” Page calls on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to censor “hate” and “disinformation” about the “LGBTQ” community, including “malicious lies and disinformation about medically necessary healthcare for transgender youth.”
Dan Friedberg, the former Chief Regulatory Officer of bankrupt cryptocurrency platform FTX, has reportedly been implicated in a lawsuit by the company that accuses him of aiding in the theft of billions of dollars from the platform’s customers by disgraced CEO and Democrat super donor Sam Bankman-Fried.
Women seeking employment at Gates Ventures, the private office of billionaire Bill Gates, have reportedly faced sexually explicit questioning during an intensive screening process. Creepy billionaire Bill Gates has a long history of pursuing women at Microsoft for sexual affairs, not to mention his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
When Reddit, the self-proclaimed “frontpage of the intenet” faced a wave of protests from users who blocked their content as part of a sitewide blackout, an unintended side effect emerged — the quality of Google search results dropped significantly for users seeking effective answers to questions. Google executives have realized that users are “not quite happy” and are desperately trying to improve their search engine in response.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is preparing for a potential fight against fellow tech CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with training sessions involving podcaster Lex Fridman and a promise to train with UFC legend Georges St-Pierre.
Woke tech giant Google has pulled its sponsorship from a San Francisco drag show after hundreds of its Christian employees signed a petition alleging that the performance was a “direct affront to the religious beliefs and sensitivities of Christians.” The drag show features a performer named “Peaches Christ.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has already been censored by Instagram and YouTube, says the latter platform has taken down another one of his videos.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who even by Silicon Valley standards has extraordinarily close ties to the Democrat party, is stoking fears about AI-generated misinformation in the 2024 election.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook (now known as Meta) has created open-source artificial intelligence technology that is sparking a debate about its potential for innovation and the risks that come with it due to misuse after users have begun creating AI sexbots to chat with.
A Tesla vehicle driven by an 18-year-old teen with its “Autopilot” engaged crashed into a stationary truck providing construction lane control on a Pennsylvania highway, intensifying scrutiny on Elon Musk’s driver assistance system.
On June 23, members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee added a new giveaway to Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company, to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Agreement (NDAA), despite opposition by the U.S. Air Force.
Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to milk their potential cage match for all the publicity it is worth. The news has sparked widespread discussion and concern, including from Musk’s own father, Errol Musk. According to Elon’s dad, he loses either way if the fight moves forward — “The thing is if this crazy fight goes ahead, if Elon beats this guy, Elon will be called a bully, being so much heavier and taller. While if he loses, the humiliation would be total.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Friday that Facebook can be sued in court for allegedly violating civil rights law by discriminating on the basis of race and sex in its targeting of housing advertisements.
A new report from the Judiciary Committee’s select committee on the weaponization of the federal government has released an interim report about the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which became one of the most important deep state outposts pushing the censorship of Americans.
The crash detection feature on iPhones, which is supposed to contact emergency services if it detects that the smartphone has been in a car accident, has been implicated in a dramatic increase in bogus emergency calls during the recent Bonnaroo Music Festival in Coffee County, Tennessee. First responders noted that false emergency calls quintupled during the festival, caused by iPhones that equated dancing with car crashes.
Arkansas has joined Utah and Texas in passing a bill requiring age verification for children using social media in this case the Social Media Safety Act. However, the law has attracted criticism from some conservative policy analysts over its explicit carve out for the biggest social media platform for teenagers: Google-owned YouTube.
Silicon Valley giants Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been teasing the possibility of a cage fight, sparking a frenzy in both the tech and sports worlds.
Twitter may be close to bending the knee to the European Union’s stringent new laws on fake news, Russian propaganda, and online crime. EU Officials recently visited the headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform to assess its ability to fight what it considers “disinformation.”
