Tech Insider : Politics
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
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The European Union opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday examining the platform’s role in spreading ‘illegal content’ around the Israel and Hamas war.

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For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon Musk have complained the man is a racist. He’s posted countless dog whistles, liked disturbing tweets, and used his platform to boost white nationalists, but he’s always managed to walk right up to the line of plausible deniability. But…

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Twitter is dying, and billionaire site owner Elon Musk knows precisely where to point the finger—not at the mirror, of course, but at the Anti-Defamation League. The Jewish civil rights organization is just one of several watchdog groups that have accused Twitter of platforming anti-Semitism.

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With the proliferation of generative AI, we’ve come to the point where technology has helped compound the sense of distrust in both media and politics that exploded during the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. Nobody is immune to deepfake suspicion, not even Trump himself.

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X, formerly known as Twitter, sued the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Monday, arguing that the nonprofit “embarked on a scare campaign to drive away advertisers from the X platform” and illegally accessed the X’s data. The lawsuit came days after Twitter unbanned Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye…

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Rep. Yvette Clarke wasn’t exactly surprised when ex-President Donald Trump used an AI voice cloning tool to make Hitler, Elon Musk, and the Devil himself join a Twitter Space to troll Florida governor Ron DeSantis earlier this year. The former president wasn’t fooling anyone with the doctored screenshot, but Clarke…