Accounts spreading disinformation that other social media companies took down remain active on X.
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U.S. military hopes one day to move supplies, maybe troops, on SpaceX’s Starship
Starship’s potential also includes flying quickly from one spot on Earth to another, which is what has the Department of Defense interested.
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Elon Musk funds Actress Gina Carano’s suit against Disney over ‘Mandalorian’ firing
Musk’s site X is funding Carano’s lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm, which dropped her from the Star Wars TV series after her inflammatory social media posts.
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Tesla shares tumble as analyst decries ‘train wreck’ investor call
In an earnings call this week, CEO Elon Musk failed to allay concerns over falling demand and persistent price cuts.
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Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X
Elon Musk has visited the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned.
Grok is the first commercial product from xAI, the AI company Musk founded. Like ChatGPT it is based on a large language model that gleans patterns of word association from vast amounts of written text, much of it scraped from the internet.
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Tesla Autopilot recall threatens its defense in lawsuits over crashes
The electric vehicle company’s biggest recall ever threatens to hurt its defense in several high-profile lawsuits it faces over crashes linked to Autopilot.
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Walmart pulls advertising spending from X amid concerns about hate speech
Walmart is joining the Walt Disney Co., IBM, NBCUniversal and its parent company Comcast, and other companies who have decided to stop spending on X.
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Musk’s X sues liberal advocacy group Media Matters over its report on ads next to hate groups’ posts
The lawsuit claims Media Matters manipulated algorithms to create images of advertisers’ paid posts next to racist or incendiary content.
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Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit focused on online extremism and disinformation, identified 200 posts that promoted antisemitism and other forms of hate speech.