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X's CEO Linda Yaccarino writes in a memo that the company's principles do not have a price tag and will not be compromised ever after Elon Musk asked the advertisers who are blackmailing him to go fuck themselves, the platform has expressed that small and medium-sized companies are a significant motor which they believe they have definitely overlooked for a long time
Apple, IBM, Disney and the EU and others stop their ads on X in response to Elon Musk's critical posts against Jewish groups, even Tiktok has been criticized for content sympathetic to Osama bin Laden but unclear if and to what extent they have been boycotted by advertisers
Hashtag #StandwithPalestine has been posted 210,000 times on Tiktok since October 16 and gets four times more views compared to #StandwithIsrael which has been posted 17,000 times, the pro-Palestine hashtag is most common in Malaysia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson will be a presenter at GB News, where Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage work among others, he will have a key role in covering the 2024 UK and US elections
Between September this year and September 2020, the share of traffic from social media to the top news sites has dropped from 11.5 percent to 6.5 percent, X ends headlines from links, Thread's algorithm does not favor news, and Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram generate negligible traffic
Reddit begins paying users based on certain criteria and no longer gives users the option to decline personalized ads, part of changes to become profitable and possibly go public
The hashtag #BanTheADL is trending on X/Twitter after the platform's CEO Linda Yaccarino met with the Anti-Defamation League's Jonathan Greenblatt days after Greenblatt's close associate Merrick Garland sued Tesla for hiring Americans before refugees and asylum seekers
Former VICE journalists start new media company called 404 Media, write they believe that if they do this journalism well enough, their readers will be willing to subscribe because they think it's important and because they feel they're personally getting value of it
Facebook will offer European users feed free of algorithms and based solely on chronology or local geographic popularity as a result of new EU rules
Rupert Murdoch-owned media conglomerate News Corp is slashing its profit by 75 percent, mainly due to falling advertising revenue, but is stressing the potential of artificial intelligence which its Australian operations are already using to produce 3,000 articles a week
German carmaker Porsche apologizes for editing out statue of Jesus in Portugal in commercial filmed in Lisbon, company says it understands the pain it may cause and says that version of ad has been removed
NASA plans to launch streaming service later this year called NASA+, will be free of cost, without ads and will include live coverage of launches, documentaries and new original series
Start-up company Channel 1 News plans to use artificial intelligence to produce personalized news programs with moving images, co-founder Scott Zabielski says that computer generated and real news anchor will definitely become indistinguishable at some point in the future
Competence in artificial intelligence increasingly sought after in Hollywood while actors are on strike, Disney has several open positions, Netflix is looking for a product manager in AI with a salary of USD 900 000 annually and countless positions are available at Apple and Amazon
Elon Musk is replacing the Twitter brand with X and says the brand, including the classic blue bird, will be phased out over time, part of his strategy to create a so-called everything app similar to China's Wechat
BBC apologizes to Nigel Farage for falsely reporting that he had his bank account frozen for purely financial reasons without political considerations citing sources, the journalist claims he was misinformed by a source he trusted, the bank Coutts has kept internal records of the political controversies the British politician has been involved in and the views he has expressed
The Associated Press begins collaboration with OpenAI to jointly explore how artificial intelligence can be used in news reporting and production and access to the 1985 archive has been granted, US authorities have begun to examine how the law should handle third-party data in relation to training AI models
Meta's Twitter competitor Threads reaches 100 million users in less than a week, a billion people currently use Instagram, Threads lacks a chronological feed and is not yet available in the EU due to regulations
The then 27-year-old William Fitzgerald, who was employed by Google in Hong Kong and helped protect Edward Snowden, openly tells his part of the story for the first time, was only called "longtime reader" in Glenn Greenwald's book and says that he steps forward partly because he wants to be remembered in history
None of the major advertising companies are no longer recommending a pause in advertising on Twitter and for example Warner Bros, Mondelez, McDonalds and Walmart are again buying ads on the platform, according to an investor presentation held by Elon Musk and the company's new CEO Linda Yaccarino, who also announced that advertising revenue is year over year up 40 percent in certain categories
That Disney's new version of The Little Mermaid is doing poorly in China, The Guardian believes may be due to racism, the Nigerian Murjana who lives in Hong Kong says that if you are black, there is a 95 percent chance that there will be an empty seat next to you on it the sardine-filled train, Chinese tabloid Global Times published an article last month accusing the film of forced inclusion of minorities
Two movies about Stockholm's bloodbath 1520 are planned, an adaptation by SF Studios is to start shooting next year and Nordisk Film och Viaplay Studios are planning a competing one where Erlend Loe is the screenwriter
Media company Vice Media Group, co-founded by Gavin McInnes and valued six years ago at $5.7 billion, is filing for bankruptcy on Monday, George Soros-backed Fortress Consortium has agreed to acquire the assets for $225 million unless another buyer place higher bids
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wins gold and silver medals in Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition in Redwood City, California, says he took up the interest during the pandemic, one of his trainers called the Shadow says it was pretty epic to watch Zuck compete and that no match was easy and everything was earned
David Miranda, Brazilian congressman and the husband of American journalist Glenn Greenwald, dies at age 37 after nine months in intensive care for gastrointestinal infection, leaves behind couple's two sons
Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News, LA Times reports that Rupert Murdoch fired him but the media house has not provided further comments, CNN's Don Lemon and the CEO of NBCU Jeff Shell have also had to leave during the day
Dominion Voting System is suing Fox News for USD 1.6 billion for defamation after the media company reported that the vote counting machines may have influenced the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, among other things Fox mentions in the defense that Dominion's product and security
The New York Times is suing the European Commission after the institution failed to release text messages between its president Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, which the newspaper claims may contain information about the decision to buy doses of the vaccine against Covid-19,
Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts are being reactivated, Meta has been working on new rules of conduct for his accounts that cannot be broken unless they are to be shut down again, Twitter reactivated his account in November but the former president has not posted to date
Russia Today's German branch shuts down following the latest round of EU sanctions, the move follows RT France's closure last month after their assets were frozen, RT DE describes the sanctions as repressive restrictions on press and media freedoms and says they will continue to operate from
Meta says it is removing content supporting or praising the Brasília storming, comments that Brazil has been designated as a temporary high-risk location and the storming a violating event meaning that the situation is actively followed
Meta's Oversight Board overturns decision to remove a Facebook post containing the phrase "death to Khamenei", says the slogan is often used to mean "down with Khamenei" and thus does not constitute a violent threat, says such statements differ from threats posted around January 6 as
Seattle's public school district sues the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat for causing a mental health crisis among youth, writes that the defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth by hooking them into positive feedback loops with
AP fact checks and rebuts claim that 1,598 athletes have suffered cardiac arrest since Covid-19 vaccinations began compared to a previous average of 29 per year, says the comparison from sources with different methodologies is scientifically unsound, exemplifies with some cancer cases and
Western media falsely reports that Iran is shutting down its morality police, statements by Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri are being misinterpreted as he only acknowledged cuts it in recent months, but the parliament and the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution will announce
The creator of the US loan company SoFi's retracted advertisement says that the criticized character would not be an archetype of a Jewish banker but a professor, in the ad, a young couple is harassed by a middle-aged man who, among other things, looks for money in the woman's bag and kisses dollar bills, the company announces that the ad is now being removed out of caution given the current rise in anti-Semitism
Elon Musk says he has resolved the misunderstanding with Tim Cook that Apple could consider removing the Twitter app from the App Store since the two met in Cupertino, Twitter's new owner criticized the mobile company in a series of tweets, claiming that their control of the app store violates free speech
The CEO of Kering, the fashion house Balenciaga's parent company, François-Henri Pinault owns the auction site Christie's, which auctions disturbed so-called art of young children in sexual situations, including a work called F*ck Face with a toddler with an erect penis instead of a nose and anus instead of mouth
Kanye West once again suspended from Twitter after having posted image of swastika inside Star of David, platform's owner Elon Musk says that controversial rap star thereby committed incitement to violence
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton tells Elon Musk that Twitter must significantly increase efforts to protect users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content to avoid violating the new Digital Services Act regulations that come into force next year
Twitter users vote to restore all suspended accounts in poll on the platform by Elon Musk, the amnesty that applies to all users who have not broken the law or spammed is to begin this week
Elon Musk tweets that publicizing Twitter's internal discussions surrounding the censorship of Hunter Biden's computer news just before the 2020 US election is necessary to restore public trust in the social media platform, at the time users were banned from sharing the article and The New York Post's account was locked for more than two weeks
Fashion house Balenciaga replaces its criticized campaign that shows small children holding teddy bears wearing bondage accessories and poorly hidden excerpt from Supreme Court ruling on child pornography with campaign that uses books with pedophile and occult undertones as props
Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account after poll shows users voting 51.8% yes and 48.2% no on the matter, Trump has said he will stay on his social media platform Truth Social instead of returning to Twitter as it is doing phenomenally well
Banned right wing groups return to Twitter immediately after Musk's takeover, Britain First who was banned in 2017 after posting inflammatory anti-Muslim videos among the returnees which worries the Center for Countering Digital Hate who fears the group might spread divisive hate and racism, Musk writes that anyone suspended for minor and dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail which is interpreted as indicating that Jordan Peterson's suspension for using transgender actress Elliot Page's former name is to be examined
The documentary Republika Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom by Boris Malagurski which, among other things, depicts the war in the former Yugoslavia is accused of being revisionist and calls to be silenced, the Institute for the Research of Genocide in Canada has received 30,000 signatures and says it promotes the denial of the genocide in Srebrenica, the idea of a Greater Serbia and the independence of the Republic of Srpska and its unification with Serbia
Kanye West buys social media platform Parler which was created during Trump era to cater to conservatives, rap star was recently banned from Instagram and Twitter for making controversial statements about Jewish influence
Meta included in Russia's list of terrorist organizations, was banned in March for Russophobia, Facebook and Instagram are still used in Russia with the help of VPN services
Trump files USD 475 million lawsuit against CNN for defamation, claims the company has been running a campaign of libel and slander that has been escalating due to fear of a possible candidacy in the presidental election 2024, he concludes that he is proud to file the lawsuit in order to begin the process of standing up to Fake News and the Mainstream Media
Google, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram all suppress any advertising for Alex's War, the documentary about Alex Jones is ranked 2nd on the iTunes movie preorder rankings behind Top Gun: Maverick, director Alex Lee Moyer says the movie is an impartial, fly-on-the-wall look at why so many revere Jones as a hero when he has said things that would make anybody uncomfortable
Twitter sues Elon Musk to try to force him to buy the company according to his contractual obligations, Musk walked away from his proposed USD 44 billion takeover due to not being given information about the number of fake and spam accounts on the platform
Dutch right wing broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland fined EUR 92,000 for spreading wrongful information and not differentiating between facts and opinion, allowed for instance Flemish politician Felix de Winter to unopposed talk about replacement theory, ON chair Arnold Karskens calls the fine unjustified and says they are getting fined for letting elected representatives speak about mass migration and the consequenses of rampant climate measures
Elon Musk threatens to walk away from his USD 44 billion bid to buy Twitter as the company repeatedly has refused to provide information regarding the amount of spam bot accounts, says the company's offer of only providing details about the testing methods breaches the merger agreement obligations
BBC alters female rape victim's quote from he/him to they/them to prevent misgendering the transgender attacker, the pronouns reportedly changed on advice from the 14-member central diversity team in accordance with the editorial policy
Infowars files for bankruptcy, presumably to avoid paying damages for commentary on Sandy Hook massacre
Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter and becomes largest shareholder, has critized the platform for lacking free speech and hinted at planning shake-up of social media industry
Germany blocks several of Covid-19 denier Attila Hildmann's Telegram channels from German users and investigates a Bavarian man for hate speech and Holocaust denial on the platform, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser met with Telegram earlier this week and has previously threatened to shut down the platform in the country as researchers have found that that popular power users such as Hildmann and Austrian Identitarian Movement leader Martin Sellner contribute to a spiral of radicalization
Russia closes the Moscow bureau of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and revokes its employees' accreditations in the country, will also terminate the broadcasting output on its territory and plans to label the company a foreign agent, Russia has earlier criticized a German ban on the state broadcaster Russia Today's German-language programming
Former CNN anchor Leon Harris arrested accused of trying to leave a DUI crash scene in Maryland, faces a total of nine charges including driving while under influence of alcohol, driving while impaired by alcohol, attempting to elude police and failure to control vehicle speed to avoid a collision, Harris previously pleaded guilty to DUI in 2013
Facebook loses a million daily active users during Q4 2021 which is the first ever decline, adds 2 million monthly actives which is the slowest ever quarter-on-quarter growth rate, has close to 3 billion daily active users across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp
CNN President Jeff Zucker resigns immediately over undisclosed relationship with his key lieutenant Allison Gollust, Gollust remains with the company and says she looks forward to continuing the great work, senior executives Michael Bass, Amy Entelis and Ken Jautz to fill the position as interim heads until the merger with Discovery is complete
BBC director-general Tim Davie warns about job cuts after GBP 285 million missing in the budget due to freezing the licence fee for two years, says they need to rethink their operational structure, the staff reportedly upset and depressed according to insiders
Nigeria lifts ban on Twitter after seven months For its 200 million people, the ban followed a censoring of a President Buhari post where he threatened to handle separatist rebels "in the language they will understand", Twitter reportedly to open an office in Nigeria, appoint a country head and meet its tax obligations according to the deal