Harris Campaign Fires Back at Tech-Troubled Trump-Musk X Interview: “Self-Obsessed Rich Guys”
Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign team is taking aim at Donald Trump and Elon Musk after their live-streamed X interview, claiming the Republican hopeful’s agenda is for “self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class.” On Monday, Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022 and later renamed it X, had a conversation with former […]
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White Dudes for Harris Founders Blame Elon Musk for X Account’s Suspension
Two of the founders of White Dudes for Harris, a political organizing group and popular Zoom meeting that gained massive popularity and raised a reported $4 million-plus for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid this week, blamed Elon Musk for its official X (formerly Twitter) account being suspended following an enormous fundraising event that saw […]
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Khloé Kardashian to Launch Video Podcast on X (Exclusive)
X is getting into the business with the Kardashians. The Elon Musk-owned tech company has inked a deal with Khloé Kardashian, who will host a video podcast on the platform beginning this fall. The 26-episode series is still light on specifics, though it will blend Kardashian’s “boundary-pushing sense of humor with her signature relatability to […]
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Don Lemon Says Elon Musk Canceled His X Show, Hours After Interview Taped for Debut Episode
Don Lemon won’t be bringing a show to Elon Musk’s X platform, after all. Lemon on Wednesday said that Musk “has canceled the partnership I had with X … he informed me of his decision hours after an interview I conducted with him on Friday.” The interview with Musk is slated to be the debut […]
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Doja Cat Deactivates Instagram Account, Says It’s Causing “F—ed Up Thoughts”
Doja Cat has quit Instagram, telling her tens of millions of followers in a now-deleted post over the weekend that she’s beginning to have “f—ed up thoughts” after receiving criticism on the platform. The Grammy winning pop star, whose real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, then deleted her account, which had a whopping 28 […]
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WWE Inks Deal With X to Stream ‘Speed’ Matches
X is getting into the ring with the WWE. The Elon Musk-owned social platform, previously known as Twitter, has signed a two-year deal with the WWE for a new exclusive weekly video series. Called WWE Speed, the concept will feature timed matches meant to be completed in five minutes or less. The series, which is […]
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Who Is Behind the Spread of Taylor Swift’s Deepfake Nudes?
The fallout from last week’s posting of nonconsensual artificial intelligence-generated deepfake nude imagery of pop superstar Taylor Swift has not slowed, with members of Congress speaking out on the matter, X (née Twitter) reinstating the ability to search Swift’s name after it had been disabled as the images tore across the platform, actors union SAG-AFTRA […]
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Taylor Swift Search Re-enabled on X Following AI Nudes
Taylor Swift’s name is no longer drawing up a blank space on X/Twitter. Searches for the singer’s name were disabled over the weekend, following an excess of pornographic AI nudes of her flooding the social media platform, which also wiped all results for “Taylor Swift nude” or “Taylor Swift AI.” Now, X has reinstated the […]
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Twitter/X Goes Down for Users Globally
Twitter (formerly X) experienced major outages in the U.S. and other parts of the world Wednesday night. For over an hour, the social media platform was failing to load posts on people’s timelines, both on desktop and mobile. Instead, users are met with a “Welcome to X” message on their homepage. DownDetector, a site that […]
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John Oliver Lobs Insults at Elon Musk on ‘Last Week Tonight’: “A Man Who Can Pull Off Pretty Much Any Bad Guy in a Movie”
John Oliver did a deep dive into Elon Musk on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, and came up with a slew of insults to lob at the billionaire tech mogul. “This is our final show of the year, so we thought we’d focus on someone who’s had a pretty big 12 months,” the HBO late night […]
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Linda Yaccarino’s Very Unmerry X Mess
When Elon Musk announced last May that he was naming Linda Yaccarino the CEO of the company that I will always call Twitter, few people outside of the media business had any idea who she was. By now, just a few months later, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal has become a lightning rod […]
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Elon Musk Tours Israeli Kibbutz Attacked by Hamas Amid Antisemitic Backlash, X Advertiser Exodus
Elon Musk toured the kibbutz in southern Israel that was attacked on Oct. 7 by Hamas terrorists and launched the Israel-Hamas war. His visit comes in the wake of major advertisers, including Hollywood studios, abandoning his X social media platform after the tech mogul’s endorsed an antisemitic post. In a video released by Israel, Musk […]
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