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Elon Musk makes public posts on X visible to all, including blocked users

Formerly Twitter, X now allows everyone to see a public post but will prevent users blocked by the person from interacting with those posts

Ex-Twitter worker wins fight with Elon Musk over unpaid severance

The resolution of the dispute, which was handled through arbitration, comes almost two years after Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and promptly fired over half of the staff

FIR against X users for claiming 'Amul' ghee used in Tirupati laddus

Police on Saturday registered a case against seven users of social media platform 'X' for allegedly spreading misinformation that the "low quality" ghee used for making laddus at the Tirupati temple belonged to the 'Amul' brand, an official said. A massive political row has erupted after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu claimed that animal fat was used in making laddus made Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in Tirupati during the previous government in the state. Anand-based Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets its milk and dairy products under the brand name 'Amul', has denied having supplied ghee (clarified butter) to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which manages the temple. As per the FIR, X users of seven different handles spread misinformation that ghee with animal fat used for preparing laddus for Tirupati Balaji temple belonged to the 'Amul' brand with the intention of harming the reputation of the GCMMF, the cyber crime ...

Brazil slaps Rs 7.7 cr fine on Elon Musk after X's brief return despite ban

The platform's services were briefly re-enabled on Wednesday (September 18) after X updated its servers in Brazil. During this brief period, a large number of Brazilian users accessed the site

X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access

Some Brazilian users reconnected with X on Wednesday despite the Supreme Court's recent nationwide ban, the result of the social network apparently changing the way its servers are accessed. The reunion may be short-lived, however. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X blocked nationwide on Aug 30 after months of tension with billionaire Elon Musk surrounding orders to take down accounts and the limits of free speech in Brazil. He also established fines on anyone using virtual private networks (VPN) to access the platform. That rendered X effectively inaccessible in the country until Wednesday, with AP journalists among those who had access. Experts examining X's IP addresses said there are indications that the company has begun routing users through the servers of Cloudflare, a content delivery network, en route to its own. "The service that Elon Musk's social network has started using works like a digital shield that protects the company's servers," said Pedro Diogenes, Latin ...

Jio is down; users complain about network disruption on social media

Jio Down: Thousands of users are complaining about the network issue on social media. The users are also not able to connect to the internet

Here's what we know about reported suspect behind Trump assassination bid

The Secret Service said its agents were accompanying Trump on the golf course, when one who was securing holes ahead of Trump spotted a gun barrel in some bushes near the property line

Brazil's court unfreezes accounts of X, Starlink following $3 mn transfer

Brazilian government collected 7.2 million Brazilian reais ($1.3m) from an X bank account and over 11 million Brazilian reais ($1.9m) from a Starlink account

Cristiano Ronaldo creates history with 1 bn social media followers

Cristiano was already the most followed person on Instagram, with more than 639 million followers, and is now at the top of the overall charts

K'taka CM warns ruthless action against those creating religious divide

Following clashes between two groups, a few shops and vehicles were set on fire

Brazil's X ban drives Bolsonaro supporters to rally for 'free speech'

Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro began flooding Sao Paulo's main boulevard for an Independence Day rally on Saturday, buoyed by the government's blocking of tech billionaire Elon Musk's X platform, a ban they say is proof of their political persecution. A few thousand demonstrators, clad in the yellow-and-green colours of Brazil's flag, poured onto Av. Paulista. References to the ban on X and images of Musk abounded. Thank you for defending our freedom, read one banner praising the tech entrepreneur. Saturday's march is a test of Bolsonaro's capacity to mobilize turnout ahead of the October municipal elections, even though Brazil's electoral court has barred him from running for office until 2030. It's also something of a referendum on X, whose suspension has raised eyebrows even among some of Bolsonaro's opponents all the while stoking the flames of Brazil's deep-seated political polarisation. A country without liberty can't celebrate anything this day, ...

Musk's pro-Trump America PAC ramps up advertising: 'We must stop Kamala'

"We must STOP Kamala while we can," reads an America PAC ad on Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook, where Musk's PAC has deployed the vast majority of its digital ad spend

Elon Musk dares the world to take on X as he scoffs at Brazil's ban

Musk's feud with controversial Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over the order barring X intensified an ideological war

Trial for free speech: Wikipedia, Telegram, X controversies reshape debate

Since they are ongoing in large democracies, they will be taken more seriously by everyone than blanket bans in autocracies

X global affairs head Nick Pickles resigns after a decade long stint

It was not immediately clear what his next plans were, or why he made the decision to quit

Advertisers abandon Elon Musk's X amid concerns over content and trust

Since Elon Musk acquired the platform for $44 billion in October 2022, X has experienced a significant drop in advertising revenue

Brazil blocking Elon Musk's X costs millions of users, little in sales

While sales from Brazil would likely represent a small piece of X's overall business, any revenue is important for the company, which is still fighting to win back advertisers

Musk's X wins appeal to block part of California content moderation law

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a lower court judge's decision declining to pause enforcement of the new California law

Starlink backtracks, to comply with judge's order to block X in Brazil

Elon Musk's satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order to block the billionaire's social media platform, X. Starlink said in a statement posted on X that it will heed Justice Alexandre de Moraes' order despite him having frozen the company's assets. Previously, it informally told the telecommunications regulator that it would not comply until de Moraes reversed course. Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil," the company statement said. "We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that @alexandre's recent order violate the Brazilian constitution. De Moraes froze the company's accounts last week as a means to compel it to cover X's fines that already exceeded $3 million, reasoning that the two companies are part of the same economic group. Starlink filed an appeal, its la

Brazil's Supreme Court upholds ban imposed by justice on Elon Musk's X

All five judges in Brazil's Supreme Court have unanimously voted to uphold a ban imposed on Elon Musk's social media platform 'X' by one of its justices last week, Al Jazeera reported.