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.
Breitbart News has emerged as a dominant force in digital media engagement, ranking in the top ten publishers on both Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) during the first quarter of 2025, according to NewsWhip’s latest analysis. The report credits a major algorithm shift at Facebook for driving a 200% increase in news content engagement compared to the same period last year, with conservative outlets leading the charge.
The Trump White House has introduced “podcast row,” a new initiative aimed at expanding media access to the administration. On Thursday, several podcasters, including Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec and The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, broadcasted their shows directly from the White House.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter—now rebranded as X under Elon Musk—revealed on the social media platform Primal that he has been locked out of his own X account. A post on Wednesday indicated that Dorsey had 11 hours remaining in his lockout, though it remains unclear what led to the restriction.
