Main Topic: The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is hosting conspiracy theories about the death of the Obamas' personal chef without evidence.
Key Points:
1. X, under owner Elon Musk, has relaxed its rules around misinformation, allowing conspiracy theories to spread.
2. Right-wing figures on X are casting doubt on the police statement about the chef's death, without evidence.
3. Other social media platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit have stricter policies on misinformation and are not giving as much traction to these conspiracy theories.
Main Topic: Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X and the intellectual property issues surrounding it.
Key Points:
1. Elon Musk announced the rebranding of Twitter to X, but his company did not hold the @X account, which belonged to a San Francisco photographer since 2007.
2. The sudden takeover of the handle highlights the branding and intellectual property rights issues that Musk's company now faces.
3. Musk's use of the X logo and potential trademarking of the brand could lead to legal challenges from other companies that use the letter X in the tech or internet services context.
Main topic: Social media company X (formerly Twitter) now allows paid users to hide their verification checkmarks.
Key points:
1. Twitter introduced paid verification last year with the Twitter Blue relaunch.
2. The service was renamed to XBlue during the ongoing rebranding exercise.
3. The company has updated the help page for paid subscriptions, stating that even if the checkmark is hidden, it might still be visible in some places.
4. The option to hide the checkmark will be available in the "Profile customization" section of account settings.
5. This feature will allow users to benefit from subscription features without displaying that they are a verified account.
6. In March, Twitter was reported to be working on a feature to hide checkmarks with ID verification.
7. There was controversy surrounding paid verification, as it was difficult to differentiate between legacy verified accounts and those who paid for the checkmark.
8. Twitter initially removed legacy checkmarks but later reinstated them for top accounts, regardless of payment.
9. Since the relaunch, Twitter has introduced various features to incentivize users, such as a 10,000-character limit for posts, a 3-hour video upload limit, fewer ads on the timeline, and ad revenue sharing for subscribed users.
10. In May, the platform enabled encrypted DMs for verified users.
Main topic: X introduces new sensitivity settings for advertisers to control the type of content that appears near their ads.
Key points:
1. X's ad revenue has dropped 50% since Elon Musk took over, due to concerns about hate speech and unsavory content.
2. The new sensitivity settings allow advertisers to choose between different types of content filtering for their ads.
3. The settings include "conservative" and "standard" options, with a "relaxed" setting planned for the future.
Twitter's main topic is its efforts to appeal to advertisers and improve brand safety.
Key points:
1. Twitter is expanding its partnership with Integral Ad Science (IAS) to offer sensitivity settings for advertisers to choose the types of content their ads appear around.
2. Advertisers can buy "relaxed" sensitivity ad slots for less, according to Elon Musk.
3. Twitter's AI moderation tools have been ineffective at detecting spam, but the platform aims to reduce adjacency to inappropriate content.
Twitter合作伙伴DoubleVerify和IAS在广告主退出中进行品牌安全倡议
Main topic: X (formerly known as Twitter) throttling traffic to websites disliked by Elon Musk.
Key points:
1. X slowed down access to websites including The New York Times, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Reuters, and Substack.
2. These websites have been publicly attacked by Musk in the past.
3. The delays potentially affected the traffic and ad revenue of these companies.
Hint on Elon Musk: Musk has previously blocked links to competitors, called the New York Times "propaganda," and took away their verification check mark. He has also feuded with Mark Zuckerberg and threatened a cage fight.
Main topic: Elon Musk addressing the lack of transparency around "shadowbanning" on X (formerly known as Twitter).
Key points:
1. Musk apologizes for the delay in addressing the issue and explains the challenges faced by X in providing data to users.
2. Shadowbanning has been a concern on Twitter, with users unaware of being penalized for their tweets.
3. Musk insists that users should have the right to know if they've been shadowbanned and mentions a ground-up rewrite of X's codebase to simplify the process.
Hint on Elon Musk: Musk took over Twitter and attempted to prove the existence of shadowbanning by releasing information, but it only provided a behind-the-scenes look at social media moderation. He acknowledges the difficulties in tackling the problem and mentions ongoing efforts to simplify the codebase.
Main topic: Advertisers suspend advertising on X due to ads appearing next to a pro-Nazi account.
Key points:
1. Twitter's rebrand into X has made advertisers more confident in using the platform.
2. X has added brand safety controls to prevent ads from appearing in inappropriate places.
3. Gilead Sciences and NCTA-The Internet and Television Association suspended their ad spending on X after their ads appeared next to a verified pro-Nazi account.
Main topic: Elon Musk's decision to remove the ability to "block" someone on social media platform X, except in DMs.
Key points:
1. Blocking is a crucial function for ensuring safety on social media platforms.
2. Musk's decision may breach Google's Play Store guidelines for apps hosting user-generated content.
3. Users are voicing their concerns and questioning the impact of this decision.
Main Topic: X (formerly known as Twitter) is planning to make major changes to the way shared articles appear on the platform, removing text elements and leaving only lead images with an overlay of the URL.
Key Points:
1. The removal of text elements aims to improve aesthetics, make posts less compact, and fit more posts in the timeline that appears on screen.
2. Elon Musk, CEO of X, supports the new format and believes it could help reduce clickbait.
3. X may be implementing this change to encourage individuals and news publications to write longer posts directly on the platform, potentially providing more context to the shared URLs.
Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is planning to hide headlines and text from news articles, leaving only the lead image, in what appears to be another move in his ongoing battle against the media.
Starting Friday, large tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Snapchat, and TikTok must comply with new European laws that regulate social media moderation, targeted advertising, and counterfeit goods, among other areas; the laws aim to address concerns about misinformation, mental health, algorithmic content, transparency, and illegal products, with potential fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue for non-compliance.
Twitter's rebranding to X resulted in a decrease in downloads and weekly active users, but surprisingly led to a 25% increase in revenue; however, consumer confusion and the popularity of Twitter Lite impacted the success of the rebranding.
Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is updating its privacy policy to collect users' biometric and personal data, raising concerns about privacy and the potential for misuse of information.
X, formerly known as Twitter, has been running unlabeled ads in users' feeds, raising concerns about deceptive advertising practices and potentially attracting regulatory investigation.
Twitter, now called X, is suing California over a state law that requires social media companies to disclose their content policies, claiming it violates free speech and pressure them to remove objectionable content.
Formerly known as Twitter, X has started censoring posts from the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) for exposing inappropriate content promoted by the American Library Association (ALA) and local libraries to children, leading to calls for action and the creation of a counter-organization.
Main topic: Social media site X allows premium subscribers to hide their likes tab from the public.
Key points:
1. Premium subscribers of social media site X can now hide their likes tab from the public.
2. The new feature is part of X's effort to appeal to paying patrons and increase subscribers.
3. Premium subscribers can hide their likes to avoid association with questionable or hateful tweets.
Elon Musk announced during a livestream that X, formerly Twitter, may soon become a subscription-only service in order to combat the presence of bots on the platform.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino defended the social media platform, emphasizing its commitment to free expression and countering the accusation of censorship, while also addressing concerns about harassment and hate speech during an interview at the Code Conference.
X Social Media has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against X Corp., the company behind Twitter's rebrand to X Corp., alleging that the rebrand has confused consumers and led them to believe that the ad services offered by X Social Media are associated with the Musk-led company.
Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing financial challenges as advertising revenue decreases and its value is estimated to be worth less than its debt.
Elon Musk's social media platform, X, is reportedly testing a new feature that removes headlines and links from news posts, causing confusion among users.
Elon Musk has made another change to X (formerly known as Twitter), removing the display of article headlines when they are shared on the platform, causing a potential lack of context for users.
Twitter, now known as X, has removed automatically generated headlines from links to external websites, potentially reducing context and engagement with news articles on the platform.
Twitter, now referred to as X, has removed headlines from news articles in an attempt to enhance aesthetics, but this has led to confusion among readers and may reduce traffic to news outlets' stories.
Elon Musk's social network, formerly known as Twitter and now called X, has removed news headlines from article links in an effort to improve aesthetics, with Musk expressing a desire for news organizations to post content directly on the platform.
The social media platform "X" is under scrutiny for allowing racist content from VDARE to appear on its platform, including advertisements from major brands like Amazon, Samsung, and the Denver Broncos, raising concerns about the platform's commitment to brand safety.
Elon Musk's platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is now serving users clickbait advertisements that cannot be blocked, reported, or easily identified as ads.
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