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Democrats blast Musk's lawsuit against watchdog |
Elon Musk, the owner of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing pressure from Democrats over efforts to stop a group researching hate speech on the site. | © AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy |
Democratic Reps. Lori Trahan (Mass.), Sean Casten (Ill.) and Adam Schiff (Calif.) sent Musk a letter Tuesday slamming the company's "hostile stance" toward a group that researched hate speech on Twitter. The letter comes after Musk's lawyers sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), an organization that tracks online hate speech and misinformation. The group and other researchers "regularly study trends of potentially harmful behavior on social media platforms and post articles detailing their findings," including of X's competitors like Meta, Google and TikTok, the Democrats wrote. "However, under your leadership, X is taking a hostile stance toward those efforts, further contributing to existing concerns about X's abilities to effectively address the harms that exist on your platform," they added. The letter also asked for details about how the platform allows researchers to gather data, repeating a request the three Democrats made from X in March. "Independent researchers play an outsize role in providing transparency and accountability into not just X, but all social media platforms," they wrote. "However, by filing suit against the CCDH, X is uniquely resisting those important efforts and stifling unbiased research in the public interest," they wrote in Tuesday's letter. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter, will now let users who pay for its subscription tier service hide their blue check marks, according to an update on the platform's help center page. Users who pay $8 a month for X Blue, formerly Twitter Blue, will be able to choose to hide the check mark they can pay to get for their account. The check mark will be hidden on users' profiles and posts, but it "may still … |
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| Taxpayers may finally get relief from paper-based processes that have long frustrated filers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alike. The IRS is aiming to allow taxpayers to digitally submit all agency correspondence by 2024 — the next tax filing season — and achieve paperless processing capabilities by the 2025 filing season, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday. By 2025, the IRS will also digitize the estimated … |
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Taxpayers may finally get relief from paper-based processes that have long frustrated filers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alike. The IRS is aiming to allow taxpayers to digitally submit all agency correspondence by 2024 — the next tax filing season — and achieve paperless processing capabilities by the 2025 filing season, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday. By 2025, the IRS will also digitize the estimated … |
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AI.com now leads to Musk's company site |
A search for AI.com will now lead users to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, instead of ChatGPT where it once led to, Mashable reported. |
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Uber revenue increases, growth slows |
Uber reported a 14 percent increase in revenue, and its slowest growth since the coronavirus pandemic during its quarterly earnings report Tuesday, The New York Times reported. |
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Twitch expands its ban on gambling livestreams. It also says viewership of the content is down 75% |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon-owned Twitch said Wednesday it’s expanding the ban on livestreams of gambling content on the platform. The company said it will now prohibit streams of online casinos Blaze and Gamdom, adding to the four sites it banned last October when its new gambling policy went into … |
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian Senate committee has recommended a ban on the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from federal government devices be extended to China's most popular social media platform, WeChat. The Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media also recommended … |
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