South Portland native Devin Ivy is part of the small team that built the social media site winning over users fed up with Elon Musk’s X.
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What is Bluesky, the fast-growing social platform welcoming fleeing X users?
While Bluesky remains small compared to established online spaces, it has emerged as an alternative for those looking for a friendlier mood.
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Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories
Less than 2 weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.
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On the first day without X, many Brazilians say they feel disconnected from the world
X missed a deadline imposed by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to name a legal representative in Brazil, triggering the suspension.
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Elon Musk’s X sues advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’ after Twitter takeover
About a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing over concerns about ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site.
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A manipulated video shared by Musk mimics Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics
The video shows Harris saying things she did not say. It’s raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead.
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Elon Musk has made X more right-leaning, study shows
The percentage of Republican users who think X is ‘mostly good’ for American democracy has more than tripled since Musk purchased the site in October 2022.
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Employees prevented Musk from breaking federal Twitter order, FTC finds
The FTC says The Twitter Files writers did not receive direct access to the company’s systems, but instead worked with employees who accessed the systems on their behalf.
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China-based propaganda accounts flourish on X as others try to curb them
Accounts spreading disinformation that other social media companies took down remain active on X.
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X pauses some Taylor Swift searches as deepfake explicit images spread
Sexually explicit and abusive fake images of Swift began circulating widely last week on X, making her the most famous victim of a scourge that tech platforms and anti-abuse groups have struggled to fix.