Was Elon Musk’s gesture a Nazi salute or a Roman sign of power? The controversy explainedElon Musk’s gesture at a Donald Trump rally has sparked outrage, with many accusing him of mimicking the Nazi salute. The controversy follo...
21 Jan, 2025, 10.17 PM IST
A neo-Nazi helped incite U.K. riots. Elon Musk criticized his sentencingAndrew McIntyre received a seven-year prison sentence for inciting violence and participating in riots in Britain. He used social media to ...
14 Jan, 2025, 11.41 AM IST
Elon Musk hijacks UK politics in favor of the far rightElon Musk's controversial social media posts about British politics have created a stir, targeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer, supporting ...
07 Jan, 2025, 06.05 PM IST
Is Elon Musk going all Nazi? With Germany's election coming in the Tesla CEO lands his hope with a right-wing partyTesla CEO Elon Musk's recent stances in the political circles of the United States has been quite complicated, and his latest potential app...
24 Dec, 2024, 03.02 AM IST
Musk and friends are smothering the internet’s truth seekersDisinformation research groups in the US face challenges from lawsuits and probes, primarily by Republicans and Elon Musk. These legal acti...
28 Oct, 2024, 11.19 AM IST
Explained: What's the future of Telegram after Pavel Durov's arrestTelegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France over allegations of facilitating child pornography, drug trafficking, and fraud recently. T...
01 Sep, 2024, 07.34 AM IST
Elon Musk lifts restrictions on X accounts in BrazilX, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said in a post late Saturday that court decisions "forced" the site to block "certa...
07 Apr, 2024, 11.57 PM IST
Elon Musk's X sues advocacy group Media Matters for report on ads next to hate groups' postsAdvertisers have been fleeing the site formerly known as Twitter over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content - and ha...
21 Nov, 2023, 08.48 AM IST
IBM and EU pull ads from Elon Musk's X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlashIBM said this week that it stopped advertising on X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis — a fresh ...
18 Nov, 2023, 12.32 AM IST
Elon Musk sued for libel for accusing man of having neo-Nazi links. Details hereElon Musk has been accused in a lawsuit of falsely accusing a man, Ben Brody, of being affiliated with a neo-Nazi group. Know what has been...
04 Oct, 2023, 10.09 PM IST
Netanyahu visits Elon Musk in California with plans to talk about artificial intelligenceThe Israeli leader posted Monday on Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that he plans to talk with the Tesla CEO "ab...
18 Sep, 2023, 10.09 PM IST
Elon Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented rise in hateful tweetsAn attorney representing the social media site wrote to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on July 20 threatening legal action o...
31 Jul, 2023, 09.43 PM IST
Twitter changes stoke Russian, Chinese propaganda surgeThe platform is no longer labeling state-controlled media and propaganda agencies, and will no longer prohibit their content from being aut...
25 Apr, 2023, 04.13 PM IST
'Monetizing hate': Unease as misinformation swirls on TwitterThe Tesla tycoon bitterly denies that misinformation has surged since his turbulent $44 billion acquisition of the messaging platform, but ...
17 Apr, 2023, 01.25 PM IST
Explained: How Elon Musk is changing what you see on TwitterThe social media platform's new owner, Elon Musk, has been trying to prove through giving selected journalists access to some of the compan...
14 Dec, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
‘Saturday Night Live’ opens with Christmas musical salute to holiday spirit’s ability to block anxietiesSaturday Night Live opened with a Christmas musical to put everyone's mind and ease and get them into the holiday spirit.
11 Dec, 2022, 05.56 PM IST
As Elon Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy jobNeo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, the founder of an infamous neo-Nazi website, was reinstated Thursday, one of many previously banned users to benefi...
05 Dec, 2022, 11.12 AM IST