Business & Tech Judge Rules That Musk's X Must Abide By California's Content Moderation Law In another blow to Elon Musk's quest for absolute free speech, a federal judge has rejected Musk and his attorneys' argument that a California law requiring social media companies to disclose their content-moderation policies and procedures.
Business & Tech Lawsuit Over Twitter/X Employees' Unpaid Bonuses Moves Forward After Judge's Ruling A lawsuit brought by one former Twitter exec who stayed on with company following the Fall 2022 purge by new owner Elon Musk, claiming that Musk reneged on a promise of bonuses for all those didn't resign, is moving to trial.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Hyperloop One Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Laying Off Everyone Elon Musk's dreams of building a high-speed steel-tube transit network that would theoretically make train and short-haul airline travel obsolete appear to be dead. Hyperloop One, founded in 2014, is shutting down.
SF News Florida Man Arrested for Threatening 'Mass Casualty Attack' at Tesla Cybertruck Launch Event in Texas Authorities thwarted a tech-hating 28-year-old man who had apparently driven from Florida to Texas to try to attack the public launch event for Elon Musk's Tesla Cybertrucks.
Business & Tech Kara Swisher Slams Elon Musk's 'F U' to Advertisers as the 'Meltdown' of an 'Adult Toddler' Tech writer and podcaster Kara Swisher didn't mince words in condemning the behavior of Elon Musk Wednesday evening at the New York Times' DealBook Summit.
Business & Tech Elon Musk to Fleeing Advertisers: 'Go F**k Yourselves' Well, the countdown clock may be ticking to X CEO Linda Yaccarino's predictable departure from the platform formerly known as Twitter. Company owner and virtual CEO Elon Musk has just told skittish advertisers "Don't advertise."
Business & Tech Elon Musk Went to Israel to Show He's Not Antisemitic Musk decided to pay a visit Monday to Israel and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following a week and a half of negative attention about antisemitism on X/Twitter.
Business & Tech Musk's X Sues Media Matters Over Article Regarding Hate Speech and Ads Elon Musk is extremely mad at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog group that has been calling out hate speech on X/Twitter, and now he's filed a lawsuit against them.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Puts X/Twitter In Jeopardy Again With One Antisemitic Tweet Elon Musk can't help himself when it comes to tweeting, and his opinions on many matters are gross and/or deeply misguided, and thus him owning Twitter and taking all the guardrails off it has come back to bite him yet again.
Arts & Entertainment Darren Aronofsky to Direct Elon Musk Biopic, So This Should Be Weird It doesn't exactly bode well for Elon Musk that the director of 'Requiem for a Dream' has secured the rights to his recent biography, and the forthcoming film will likely be less glowing portrayal and more existential nightmare.
Business & Tech One Year Into the Musk Era, Twitter/X Has Fewer Users, Fewer Advertisers, Less Clout Whatever Elon Musk's ultimate vision for the platform he and almost no one else calls X may be, it is still slow to take shape, and one year into his tenure at the company, the results of his leadership aren't great.
SF Politics Preston Becomes Latest SF Supervisor to Quit Twitter/X SF Supervisor Dean Preston says he's deleting his Twitter/X account, two weeks after the company's owner, Elon Musk, tweeted that Preston should "go to prison," becoming the latest in a string of city supervisors to leave the platform.
Business & Tech As Misinformation About Israel-Hamas War Proliferates, EU Threatens X/Twitter With Fines The European Union's digital enforcer has sent an urgent letter to Elon Musk about the proliferation of misinformation on X regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, "reminding" Musk of the company's obligations under the EU's Digital Services Act, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has replied.
SF News Grimes Files Suit Against Elon Musk Over Parental Rights After Saying She Had Not Seen Her Son One of Elon Musk's baby mamas, Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, made a legal filing in San Francisco Superior Court Friday that may indicate all is not copacetic between the two parents, who now share three children together.
SF Politics Now Elon Musk Says SF Supervisor Dean Preston ‘Should Go To Prison’ Twitter/X owner Elon Musk continues his obsession with District 5 supervisor Dean Preston, on Friday tweeting that “Dean Preston should go to prison,” prompting the tech PAC in line for Musk’s promised $100k donation to defeat Preston to say they’ll refuse the money.
SF Politics Elon Musk Claims He’ll Spend $100,000 to Beat Dean Preston In 2024 Election Is it a blessing or a curse when perhaps the most widely loathed and cartoonish CEO in tech vows he’ll spend $100,000 to defeat you in an election? Supervisor Dean Preston will find out, as Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that he’ll pledge a hundred grand to beat the District 5 supervisor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter (X) May Start Charging Everyone Elon Musk says X may have to start charging everyone to use it, to combat bots; the CEO of Square is stepping down after that huge outage; and SF's Turtle Tower restaurant has closed after 23 years.
Business & Tech Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Has Friendly Live Chat With Elon Musk About AI, Antisemitism, and Judicial Power Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew overnight to San Francisco to have a public conversation with Elon Musk Monday morning about multiple subjects, including AI, antisemitism on Twitter/X, and the power of courts in a functioning democracy.
Business & Tech Tech Bigwigs Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and Others Hold Private Meeting With Congress on Regulating AI In what seems like inviting the foxes to a forum on henhouse safety, the biggest names in AI held a secret meeting in Washington, D.C. yesterday to advise Senate leaders on how to regulate the fast-growing AI industry.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is Now Suing California Over Its New Content Moderation Law In what seems like another ill-advised move from a PR and advertiser-comfort perspective, Elon Musk's X Corp. is now suing the state of California over a new law that requires social media platforms to make their content moderation policies and methods public.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Admits to Preventing Ukrainian Drone Strike on Crimea These are extraordinary times when a billionaire capitalist is able to singlehandedly intervene in an international conflict on his own whims. But that appears to be at least partly what happened in an incident last year that's described in a new book about Elon Musk.
Business & Tech X Rolls Out Its First Non-Tweet-Related Feature, and It's a LinkedIn Competitor Saying over the weekend that he can't bring himself to look at resumes on LinkedIn because "the cringe level is so high," Elon Musk rolled out a beta version of X Hiring, which will charge verified organizations a fee to post jobs.
Business & Tech Musk Says X 'May Fail' Amid Weekend of Glitches and Drama Elon Musk threatened to jettison the "block" feature on Twitter/X, which led to plenty of drama on the platform over the weekend, and meanwhile, something went awry with all photos and links from pre-December 2014.
SF Politics Trump May Do Interview With Tucker Carlson on X Next Week, Upstaging Republican Debate Donald Trump has reportedly made plans to do an online interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, on a platform still to be determined, in a middle-finger move to upstage the first Republican candidate debate.
Business & Tech Judge Asked Whether Elon Musk Wanted to 'Cozy Up' to Trump By Refusing Order In January 6th Case We just learned this week that Special Counsel Jack Smith definitely got Donald Trump's DMs from his defunct Twitter account, but now we're getting court transcripts showing how it went down.
