Business & Tech Xitter Releases First Transparency Report Since 2021, Shows Far Fewer Actions With Regard to Hate Speech Because the EU requires companies to produce such reports, Elon Musk's X has sucked it up and produced a transparency report — the first since Musk took over the company formerly known as Twitter in 2022.
Business & Tech Ninth Circuit Sides With Musk In Case About California Social Media Content Moderation Law A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has taken Elon Musk's and Xitter's side in a case concerning a new California law that mandates broad disclosures for social media platforms about their content moderation practices.
Business & Tech Marketer Survey Suggests Future Advertiser Losses For X The advertising woes at soon-to-be-no-longer-SF-based Xitter look to be persistent, and a woefully small segment of advertisers has any remaining faith that their brands are safe when they might end up appearing next to some offensive content.
Business & Tech Bye, Elon!: Xitter to Exit the Twitter Building For Good on September 13 Finally shedding the last vestiges of the company once known — and still often referred to — as Twitter, Elon Musk is shutting the operation down for good at the Twitter Building on mid-Market Street on Friday the 13th of September.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Secret List of Twitter Buyout Investors Made Public; It Includes Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover was largely financed by a secret group of wealthy investors. Those investors’ names are now public, and the list includes Jack Dorsey, Larry Ellison, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Business & Tech WSJ: Elon Musk’s Deal to Buy Twitter Rated Worst Deal for Banks Since the 2008 Financial Crisis The seven major banks who lined up to finance Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in 2022 are still on the hook for $13 billion, setting unpaid debt records not seen since the 2008 Great Recession collapse. Let that sink in!
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Trans Daughter Continues Attacks, Calling Musk a 'Desperate,' 'Lying,' 'Serial Adulterer' Elon Musk's daughter Vivian Wilson will not stay silent any longer, and after he set her off by going on a conservative podcast with an anti-trans psychologist to talk about her, she has now gone viral again with a second rant about her estranged billionaire father.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter/X Sues Advertisers for Not Advertising on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X So-called “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk apparently thinks that free speech means forcing advertisers to buy ads on his website by suing them, as his latest lawsuit has sued advertisers for pulling their ads from his platform.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Makes Good on Threat to Close X/Twitter Offices In SF, Says Office Will Close In a Few Weeks While there was some suggestion that Xitter might let go of just a portion of its longtime office space at what quickly became known as The Twitter Building over a decade ago, it looks like Elon Musk is finally getting out of SF for good.
SF Politics In New Interview, Elon Musk Spells Out How Conflict Over Trans Daughter Triggered His Shift to MAGA-dom Elon Musk is now clearly articulating what many of us have understood for a while now — his family conflict over a trans child, and his own transphobia and lack of belief in gender-affirming care, are the main triggers that have pushed him into the pro-Trump camp.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Claims He’s Moving X Headquarters to Texas, Because He’s Mad About a New Trans Rights Law Just days after we learned that Xitter is trying to sublease its entire mid-Market headquarters, Elon Musk says he’s moving the company to Texas, and claims it’s because of a new California law about the rights of trans kids.
SF Politics Elon Musk, Now All In For Trump and Pledging $180M to a Republican PAC, Will Get to Use X to Do Trump's Bidding Maybe it's all because he has a trans kid who won't speak to him, or maybe it's because it's not macho to vote Democrat anymore because fuck democracy. But Elon Musk has now gone all in for Trump, and that's further reason to feel doomed about this election.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter/X Now Looking to Sublease Entire Market Street Headquarters It could be a sign of financial trouble for Musk’s Twitter, and it’s definitely a bad sign for downtown SF’s office space recovery, that the social media company just put all 800,000 square feet of its Ninth and Market headquarters up for sublease.
SF Politics Trump Convicted, Xitter Goes Wild You may have heard by now that, in the last hour, an American president was for the first time convicted of a felony in criminal court. 34 felonies, actually.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is at War With the Brazilian Judiciary Now Brazilian politics are, like America's, in a volatile and divisive place. And Xitter is reportedly being weaponized in ways that violate Brazilian law — which does not have complete protections for free speech. So Elon Musk is basically threatening to shut down all operations in the country.
Business & Tech Judge Tells Musk His Lawsuit Against Hate-Speech Watchdog Group Is Just 'Punishment' For Their Speech Self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' Elon Musk went after several nonprofit organizations last year for their speech last year. One of those lawsuits was just tossed out by a federal judge with a blistering, 52-page order.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Talks Ketamine With Don Lemon, Says Investors Should Want Him to 'Keep Taking It' The interview that apparently destroyed Don Lemon's relationship with Elon Musk, because it was not fawning enough for Musk's liking, or something, is now online, and in it, Musk discusses his use of prescription ketamine.
Business & Tech Fired Twitter Executives Suing Elon Musk for $128 Million in Unpaid Severance Four high-level Twitter executives whom Elon Musk immediately fired after taking over Twitter are suing for what they say is $128 million in unpaid severance, a lawsuit that claims Musk said he would “hunt” those executives “until the day they die.”
Business & Tech Why Did Musk's 'Free-Speech Absolutist' X Platform Take Down New Account From Alexei Navalny's Widow? It is hard to say where we are in the evolution/devolution of Xitter under the leadership of Elon Musk. But in the absence of a robust human team dealing with content moderation, odd contradictions in policy are bound to occur.
Business & Tech X’s SF Landlord Is Suing Over Unpaid Rent, Seeking $13.6 Million Ahead of X's trial with its Market Street office landlord over rent nonpayment, court filings reveal that the landlord is looking for $13.6 million to refill a line of credit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Did Musk Just Buy Twitter to Shut Down That Jet-Tracker Account? A new book suggests Elon Musk's primary motivation to buy Twitter was to shut down that ElonJet account; an Oakland police officer was arrested for DUI; and four people were found dead of possible overdoses in a South Lake Tahoe house.
Business & Tech X and Other Platforms Restrict Searches for ‘Taylor Swift’ As Deepfake Pornography of Her Goes Viral Graphic AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift have snowballed on social media platforms from X to Meta to Reddit, exposing the limits of their content moderation and lack of legislation.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Probably Keep Mindlessly Casting Doubt on Mail-In Ballots and Election Integrity All Year on X Elon Musk has proven himself no better and no wiser than the many, many idiots who chatter about conspiracies and the "Deep State" on social media, the only difference being he's a billionaire who owns a social media platform who should know better.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Continues Apology Tour By Going to Auschwitz With Ben Shapiro Billionaire multi-CEO Elon Musk took a break from running his companies to take a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp Monday and attend a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA) in Krakow.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Wants More Compensation Out of Tesla to Move More Toward AI Elon Musk is in some sort of negotiation with the board of Tesla to regain greater voting control at the board level, and he's making this publicly known in a series of tweets, for some reason.
