Elon Musk
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PublishedDecember 23, 2023
Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned.
Grok is the first commercial product from xAI, the AI company Musk founded. Like ChatGPT it is based on a large language model that gleans patterns of word association from vast amounts of written text, much of it scraped from the internet.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2023
Tesla Autopilot recall threatens its defense in lawsuits over crashes
The electric vehicle company's biggest recall ever threatens to hurt its defense in several high-profile lawsuits it faces over crashes linked to Autopilot.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2023
Walmart pulls advertising spending from X amid concerns about hate speech
Walmart is joining the Walt Disney Co., IBM, NBCUniversal and its parent company Comcast, and other companies who have decided to stop spending on X.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2023
Musk’s X sues liberal advocacy group Media Matters over its report on ads next to hate groups’ posts
The lawsuit claims Media Matters manipulated algorithms to create images of advertisers' paid posts next to racist or incendiary content.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2023
Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit focused on online extremism and disinformation, identified 200 posts that promoted antisemitism and other forms of hate speech.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2023
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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PublishedNovember 17, 2023
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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PublishedOctober 27, 2023
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.'
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PublishedOctober 18, 2023
Elon Musk says it will cost new users $1 to post, like and interact on X
Twitter already offers paid subscriptions of $8 a month as part of its X Premium program, formerly known as Twitter Blue.
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PublishedOctober 12, 2023
EU asks X for information on hate speech and ‘illegal content’ related to Israel-Hamas war
The European Commission has made a formal, legally binding request for information from Elon Musk’s social media platform over its handling of hate speech, misinformation and violent terrorist content.
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