South Portland native Devin Ivy is part of the small team that built the social media site winning over users fed up with Elon Musk’s X.
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Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories
Less than 2 weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.
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Elon Musk’s X sues advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’ after Twitter takeover
About a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing over concerns about ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site.
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Elon Musk has made X more right-leaning, study shows
The percentage of Republican users who think X is ‘mostly good’ for American democracy has more than tripled since Musk purchased the site in October 2022.
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Employees prevented Musk from breaking federal Twitter order, FTC finds
The FTC says The Twitter Files writers did not receive direct access to the company’s systems, but instead worked with employees who accessed the systems on their behalf.
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China-based propaganda accounts flourish on X as others try to curb them
Accounts spreading disinformation that other social media companies took down remain active on X.
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X pauses some Taylor Swift searches as deepfake explicit images spread
Sexually explicit and abusive fake images of Swift began circulating widely last week on X, making her the most famous victim of a scourge that tech platforms and anti-abuse groups have struggled to fix.
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Tesla investors call for changes after Musk’s antisemitic post
Investors may not go as far as saying they would reduce their holdings in the company, but many said they were taken aback after Musk agreed with a post that said Jewish people hold a ‘dialectical hatred’ of white people.
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IBM and EU pull ads from X after Elon Musk’s antisemitic tweets
IBM said this week it stopped advertising on X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis. Ads from Apple, Oracle, NBCUniversal’s Bravo network and Comcast also were placed next to antisemitic material.
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A year later, Elon Musk’s X is tilting right. And sinking.
But in at least one respect, Musk has delivered on his original promise: the site formerly called Twitter has become far less ‘woke.’