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This week in trends, Big Tech bros could not stop talking about the woke mind virus. Many Silicon Valley leaders crowed that the ousting of Harvard’s President was the beginning of the end for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, which they described as “immoral” and “illegal.”

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Donald Trump using his cellphone
Donald Trump uses his cellphone.
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Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people.

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Elon Musk at the NYT's Dealbook summit.
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Elon Musk
The new offering is a steep price cut from X's initial announcement last year that verification for businesses would cost $1,000 per month.
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A mutual fund that helped Elon Musk buy X now says the platform is worth 71.5% less than the $44 billion it was purchased for in 2022, according to

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Elon Musk (left) and X app (right).
Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022. Musk later renamed the company to X in July 2023.
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Whatever else you can say about X, previously known as Twitter, it’s never really boring.

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Since Musk's $44 billion takeover of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, he declared himself a "free speech absolutist."