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Articles tagged Elon Musk (13)

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 13, 2024

The Guardian won’t post on X anymore — but isn’t deleting its accounts there, at least for now

Guardian reporters may still use X for newsgathering, the company said.

Joshua BentonNovember 6, 2023

How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?

“At the time of this writing, it is difficult to avoid the realization that one side of politics — mainly in the U.S. but also elsewhere — appears more threatened by research into misinformation than by the risks to democracy arising from misinformation itself.”

Michael SerazioOctober 30, 2023

Why Elon Musk is obsessed with casting Twitter/X as the most “authentic” social media platform

“Threads’ vibes may have been cheerful and friendly at the outset — disingenuously so, according to Musk — but it may well prove that, eventually, all social media sites regress toward the meanest.”

Joshua BentonOctober 10, 2023

Elon Musk took the headlines away from Twitter — but you can bring them back with this one weird trick

This browser extension can help you undo one piece of the misinformation-related damage Musk has done to the newsiest of social platforms.

Sophie CulpepperOctober 5, 2023

News story or meme? After Elon Musk aXes headlines, it’s hard to tell

If you had to come up with a single move designed to deal a blow to whatever traffic is left and make sharing news more of a hassle, you couldn’t do much better than eliminating headlines from posts.

Joshua BentonJuly 31, 2023

Elon Musk can change what he calls Twitter — but can he change what everyone else calls it?

It now says “X” on the website (you know, the one that’s still at, um, twitter.com). But to the news media and much of the outside world, the name of the old bird platform is still Twitter.

Joshua BentonJuly 24, 2023

If other media companies thought about brand equity the way Elon Musk thinks about Twitter’s (er, X’s)

In the spirit of Tronc, Elon Musk has decided to throw away more than a decade of brand equity by changing the name of Twitter to…the letter X. Imagine if more media executives followed his lead.

Joshua BentonMay 1, 2023

Micropayments. Elon Musk thinks he’s got a “major win-win” for news publishers with…micropayments.

After all, who would news companies rather trust their revenue to than the guy who calls them a “relentless hatestream”?

Twitter appears highly bothered by Substack’s existence

Joshua BentonApril 4, 2023

Among all of his mistakes, don’t forget Elon Musk is singlehandedly crushing a big chunk of Internet research for no good reason

Access to Twitter’s API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade. So how does $210,000 a month sound?

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