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Elon Musk: the shocking degree of power wielded by an erratic billionaire

Forget his wealth, said Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker. It’s the sheer power Elon Musk wields today that should shock us. The billionaire’s rocket company, SpaceX, is currently the sole means by which Nasa can get astronauts into space from US soil. Another of his ventures, Tesla, controls the…

The Week

According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion

Musk posted the bleak financial assessment as part of a rant against the ADL.

Fortune

Why is Elon Musk obsessed with the letter X?

Tech entrepreneur’s first venture was X.com

The Independent UK

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Elon Musk ‘borrowed $1bn from SpaceX’ at same time as Twitter acquisition

This isn’t the first time that Mr Musk has taken out money from one of his ventures to aid another

The Independent UK

Elon Musk took a $1 billion loan from SpaceX just days before he closed his Twitter deal

The tycoon secured a major loan from a company he controlled to potentially fund his private acquisition of Twitter, thwarting short sellers in the process.

Fortune

Zuckerberg’s Threads Tangles With Slow Growth As Web Launch Falls Flat

The widely anticipated web launch of Meta's Threads, appears to have failed to significantly increase its user base.

Zenger

Fake social media posts on Burning Man festival stir conspiracy theory frenzy

Rumors and fake posts about an Ebola outbreak posted on TikTok and Twitter led to a rapid spread of misinformation

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Australia’s e-safety regulator warned Twitter about rise in online hate speech during voice debate

FoI request reveals watchdog approached platform – now known as X – to discuss voice to parliament referendum but it did not substantially respond

The Guardian - AU

The trouble with Elon Musk's ADL fight

The X owner's clash with the ADL is part of an ongoing problem.

Fortune

'Free Speech Absolutist' Elon Musk Threatens Anti-Defamation League With Defamation Lawsuit

Plus: The doubling of the deficit, young Americans souring on college, and more...

Reason

Elon Musk threatens ADL with lawsuit seeking billions in damages, blaming advocacy group for loss of advertising

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Fortune

Recovering from "Gonzo Governance"

Professor David L. Altheide on "Gonzo Governance" and "the media logic of Donald Trump"

Salon

TechScape: As the US election campaign heats up, so could the market for misinformation

Twitter is not the only platform inviting political adverts back, as tech giants from Meta to YouTube compete for marketing money and eyeballs

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over lost X revenue

World’s richest man claims civil rights group has falsely accused site formerly known as Twitter of being antisemitic

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Evening Standard

Elon Musk threatens to sue the Anti-Defamation League over lost revenue on X (Twitter)

The social media platform owner said the campaign group had ‘falsely accused’ both X and Mr Musk of being antisemitic

The National (Scotland)

'Fact check' linked with Holocaust denier removed from Lesley Riddoch tweet

A TWITTER “fact check” from a Unionist group linked to a Holocaust denier on a post by Lesley Riddoch has been removed after sparking outrage.

Fortune

Jeff Bezos’s rivalry with Elon Musk has landed him with a lawsuit

The filing alleges Amazon's leadership “excluded the most obvious and affordable launch provider, SpaceX, from its procurement process because of Bezos’ personal rivalry with Musk."

The Guardian - US

Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses

Lawsuit says network discloses user data at request of Saudi authorities at much higher rate than for US, UK and Canada

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The Guardian - UK

The BBC’s Marianna Spring: ‘The more violent the rhetoric, the more important it is I expose it’

The broadcaster’s disinformation and social media correspondent spends her time pursuing trolls and dismantling conspiracy theories. In return she is abused, slandered, threatened. She talks about battling cranks, extremists – and Elon Musk

USA Today Sports Media Group

Twitter reacts to huge night from former Michigan State football WR Keon Coleman in Florida State win over LSU

Twitter reacts to huge night from former Michigan State receiver Keon Coleman in Florida State win over LSU

The Guardian - AU

Help us monitor campaign ads and misinformation in the Indigenous voice referendum

By reporting ads – on TV, in print, online and on social media – you can help make campaign advertising more transparent and disrupt misinformation

Dynamite News

X to roll out audio, video calls feature, announces Elon Musk

After his takeover of Twitter and renaming the social media micro-blogging site as X Elon Musk. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Tucker Carlson claims Fox News is ‘run by fearful women’ as he reveals new details about firing

‘I made a mental note – never work for anyone else again, and I never will. But I can’t be mad about it,’ Carlson says

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian blocks ChatGPT owner OpenAI from trawling its content

Publisher is latest news organisation to block the artificial intelligence company from harvesting content to create its tools

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

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