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World’s Richest Man Wants $1 from New X Users
X, formerly called Twitter, launched its “Not a Bot” beta Tuesday, which charges new accounts a $US1 annual fee to tweet and retweet. The initial test applies to new accounts created in New Zealand and the Philippines to allegedly “combat bots and scammers on X,” the company said on its Help Center page. The Not…
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X CEO Abandons WSJ Tech Conference Following Disastrous Appearance at Code
No one wants to explain away the whims of a megalomaniac, and Linda Yaccarino has been having such a rough go of it. The X/Twitter CEO has reportedly dropped out of the Wall Street Journal’s upcoming Tech Live conference following a widely criticised interview less than two weeks ago. During an interview at Vox Media’s Code…
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Lawsuit Alleges SpaceX Underpays Women and Minorities
In another discrimination accusation against SpaceX, the private space company is being sued by a former employee for alleged underpayment of women and minorities. Former SpaceX engineer Ashley Foltz filed a lawsuit at the California state court on Tuesday claiming that the company paid her less than her male colleagues with similar experience for the…
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Elon Musk and X/Twitter’s CEO Can’t Seem to Agree on Whether Their Election Integrity Team Is ‘Gone’
At a conference on Wednesday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino contradicted Elon Musk’s claims that the platform’s election monitoring team has been eliminated. Yaccarino disputed these claims, saying the team is “growing” and will continue to monitor political misinformation on the platform. Musk announced that the X, formerly Twitter, election team was disbanded in a tweet on…