Elon Musk is an imperfect mascot for free speech — but he's got a point on Brazil

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X owner Elon Musk is clashing with Brazil's government over free speech.

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Putin says his family's 'little ones' can speak Chinese fluently

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"Members of my family, the little ones, speak Chinese fluently," Russian leader Vladimir Putin told students at a secondary school in Kyzyl, Tuva.

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Mark Cuban says he's still going to use X even if Elon Musk calls him a racist

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Mark Cuban at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California; Elon Musk attending the annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Los Angeles, California.
"The signal to noise is far better on Threads. But the breadth of content is far better here. So here I am," Mark Cuban said of X, formerly Twitter.

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The UK is shutting off some arms shipments to Israel amid growing cries for a cease-fire in Gaza, but some experts say it's not enough

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Protesters staged a demonstration in support of a cease-fire against the Palestinians in Gaza in the Cannon House Office Building on October 18, 2023, in Washington, DC.

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As Elon Musk's battle with the Brazilian government intensifies, another of his companies is facing trouble

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The Brazilian government is considering slapping Starlink with sanctions amid an ongoing feud with Elon Musk over content on X.

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Who is Donald Tang, the public face of Shein, who employees know better than their own company's CEO?

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Donald Tang, the executive chairman of the fast fashion brand Shein, is the most visible leader of the Singapore-based company.

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Mark Cuban says Elon Musk's 'biggest power play' on X is letting users think they have free speech

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"He is the ultimate arbiter of everything on here. And the biggest power play is him making everyone think their speech is free speech," Mark Cuban said of Elon Musk's ownership of X.

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VPN demand surges in Brazil despite legal threat to fine users nearly $9,000 a day for using workarounds to access X

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Demand for VPNs has surged in Brazil following the country's ban on Elon Musk's social media platform X.

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A former Google product manager made an AI-powered website to sift through Project 2025 so you don't have to

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A white poster stapled to a street post warns that Project 2025 will expand oil drilling in the US.
Fliers in Milwaukee about Project 2025, a conservative playbook written by the Heritage Foundation.

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NATO member says Ukraine's Kursk incursion shows just how hollow the Russian war machine is

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Russian President Vladimir Putin leaving after attending the opening ceremony of the last phase of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg motorway.
Sweden's foreign minister Tobias Billström said that Ukraine's shock invasion of Kursk is "devastating for the Putin regime."

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