Notices by Today in X (todayintwitter@mastodon.social), page 2

This is real, by the way — this is a customized trending topic created by Shitter’s Grok nonsense.

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate has been torn up and thrown in the trash can by a federal judge:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/25/musk-x-lawsuit-slapp-center-digital-hate/

Feedback from who? Racists?

(That's not a rhetorical question; it's probably true.) https://twitter.com/XEng/status/1788688468115062833

Judge Amit Mehta granted an injunction against Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas's investigation of Media Matters for America. (This lawsuit was filed in response to a Media Matters report last year about Nazis on X.) https://www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carusone/media-matters-statement-winning-injunction-against-texas-ag-ken-paxton-federal

X rolled out a change that automatically converts all links that have the string “twitter” *anywhere* in them to “X.”

For example, if someone tweets the link `setwitter.com`, the X client application will change that link to `sex.com`.

This is not a joke.

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-dot-com-posts-change-to-x-dot-com-ios

Good experiment. https://twitter.com/xx_lu1g1f4n_xx/status/1771924289328959788

X refused to take down a deepfake audio recording of Keir Starmer, Britain's opposition leader.

According to X’s policy, users “may not share synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-15/battle-with-x-over-starmer-deepfake-highlights-uk-election-worry

Mashable reports 75 percent of advertiser-reported traffic on X during the Super Bowl was fake — a new record. https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic

Advertising on X went up last year in time for the Super Bowl. This time, it has been halved. https://www.businessinsider.com/advertisers-slash-spending-twitter-x-before-super-bowl-lviii-2024-2

Senator: “There's a lot of examples of a young person finding a [compromising image] of themselves. They want to send you an email to say, ‘Take it down.’ Why can't they get a same-day response?”

Yaccarino: “We're taking measures to…”

Zuckerberg, interrupting Yaccarino: “We do.”

Finally, a news organization that writes headlines about X correctly. https://9to5google.com/2024/01/19/twitter-x-voice-and-video-calls-turn-off/

> “While the reporting requirement does appear to place a substantial compliance burden on social medial [sic] companies, it does not appear that the requirement is unjustified or unduly burdensome within the context of First Amendment law,” Shubb wrote in his order. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-28/musk-s-x-loses-bid-to-block-california-content-moderation-law

#Twitter is currently partially down.

The state of advertising on X.

All outgoing links on X are broken: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000170/x-outage-link-error-message-broken

I’ll be honest: I really don’t understand the plan here.

This company is going to be bankrupt in six months. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-30/yaccarino-s-memo-to-x-staff-calls-musk-candid-and-profound

This is the worst it has ever been. We're watching the empire collapse slowly: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964160/elon-musk-antisemitic-x-post-ibm-ads

IBM's out: https://www.ft.com/content/647b4c4d-f4d5-46cd-bc26-8c943b6995e7

IBM, in a statement, said, “IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation.”

Good on them.

oh my GOD IT'S HAPPENING, HE'S PUTTING X BEHIND A PAYWALL!

please please do this elon, kill it once and for all please

https://twitter.com/DaveLeeBBG/status/1703814998626111785

sorry what