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Elon Musk’s X Bans Over 2 Lakh Indian Accounts Over Policy Violations

June 16, 2024 admin

In total, X banned 230,892 accounts in the reporting period. (Representational) New Delhi: Elon Musk-run X Corp has banned 2,29,925 accounts in India between April 26 and May 25, mostly for promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity. The microblogging platform, going through churning under Elon Musk, also took down 967 accounts for promoting terrorism…

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Elon Musk Asked X Employees To Justify Their Jobs. Then Fired 6,000: Report

June 16, 2024 admin

The report added that half of the workers were fired within months of the acquisition. Tech billionaire Elon Musk made a lot of noise when he bought Twitter (now X) for $44 billion in 2022. The social media platform has seen quite a few changes since then. Now, as per a report by The Telegraph, Elon…

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Elon Musk Flags Risk Of Poll Rigging

June 16, 2024 admin

India uses the third generation of EVMs, known as M3 EVMs. New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk has advised against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), citing concerns about their potential vulnerabilities to hacking. His remarks come amidst growing debates over the security of EVMs worldwide, especially following allegations of irregularities in…

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Order Blocking Elon Musk’s X For Australian Church Stabbing Video Lifted

May 13, 2024 admin

The matter has been listed for a hearing on Wednesday. Sydney: An Australian court on Monday rejected a bid by the country’s cyber safety regulator to extend a temporary order for Elon Musk-owned X to block videos of the stabbing of an Assyrian church bishop, which authorities had called a terrorist attack. Federal Court judge…

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Elon Musk’s X Corp Loses Lawsuit Against Israeli Data-Scraping Company

May 10, 2024 admin

Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022. (Representational) A US judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk’s X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform. US District Judge William Alsup in…

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Elon Musk May Be Ordered To Testify Again In US Regulator’s Twitter Takeover Probe

May 9, 2024 admin

The probe concerns whether Musk broke federal securities laws in 2022 when he bought stock in Twitter. San Francisco: A federal judge on Thursday indicated a willingness to compel Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. Lawyers for the billionaire appeared in…

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Elon Musk’s X Corp Appeals Dismissal Of Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Group

April 24, 2024 admin

X filed a notice of appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. San Francisco: Elon Musk’s X appealed the dismissal of its lawsuit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which faulted him for letting hate speech spread on the social media platform once known as Twitter. X filed a…

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Elon Musk’s X Fights Australian Watchdog Over Church Stabbing Posts

April 20, 2024 admin

Sydney: Elon Musk’s X said Saturday it will fight an Australian watchdog’s order to take down content related to the brutal stabbing of a priest during a live-streamed Sydney church service.Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly slashed in the head and chest by a 16-year-old suspect on Monday, sparking a riot by followers of the…

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Why X’s Valuation Dropped Under Elon Musk

October 31, 2023 admin

Elon Musk bought the microblogging site for $44 billion in 2022. Billionaire Elon Musk’s platform X, which was formerly known as Twitter, is now valued at less than half of what he purchased it for, a year ago. Mr Musk has earlier acknowledged that he had overpaid for Twitter, which he bought for $44 billion,…

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Elon Musk’s ‘X’ Sued By Thousands Of Employees Over Severance Pay: Report

August 31, 2023 admin

The case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC) Billionaire Elon Musk’s X, the social media formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration claims from ex-employees since Mr. Musk took over the company and fired most of its workforce. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could…

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