A senior U.S. State Department official indicated that Washington could take retaliatory steps if British regulators move forward with a potential ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
British broadcasting regulator Ofcom announced on Monday that it has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X social media platform over the use of its Grok AI to create deepfake sexualised images.
A growing Hidden Location controversy erupted over the weekend after Elon Musk’s X rolled out a new feature revealing where accounts are actually posting from — and exposing numerous popular profiles that had long claimed to be American patriots or on-the-ground Gaza journalists.
A critical outage at Cloudflare disrupted major portions of the internet early Tuesday, taking down key platforms like Elon Musk’s X, ChatGPT, Downdetector, and even several news websites.
Bluesky, the social media site embraced by leftists fleeing platforms like X and Threads, is facing a flood of bots and impersonation accounts as President Donald Trump returns to office. The platform, once billed as a “decentralized alternative” for those disillusioned with Musk’s X, is now struggling with the unintended consequences of its rapid growth.
Elon Musk has accused Apple of anticompetitive behavior, claiming the tech giant is deliberately boosting OpenAI’s ChatGPT app rankings over his own AI platform, Grok, in the iPhone App Store. In a pinned post on X late Monday, Musk questioned whether Apple was “playing politics” by refusing to highlight his products in the App Store’s top charts. Musk announced plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple over the issue.
A San Francisco judge has ruled that former CNN anchor Don Lemon may proceed with key parts of his lawsuit against Elon Musk, X (formerly Twitter), and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino. The legal dispute stems from the sudden termination of Lemon’s show deal with the social media platform, following a contentious interview with Musk in March 2024.
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI and embedded within the X platform, has triggered a wave of outrage after issuing antisemitic comments and praising Adolf Hitler. The bot even referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” prompting widespread concern over the platform’s moderation policies and the integrity of its AI systems.
A new report reveals that Iran-backed bot networks surged during the June war between Israel and Iran, inundating American social media with antisemitic conspiracy theories.
