The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s X yesterday as part of an ongoing feud with the platform.
Apparently, enough are headed to Bluesky to drive its iOS app to the top of the Brazilian App Store, as TechCrunch writes.
Brazilian fans of musicians, actors, and other celebrities play a huge role in cultivating fandoms online — and it’s unclear what will happen to stan Twitter (X) now that a judge in Brazil has ordered a ban on platform. A Timothée Chalamet updates account has already announced it’ll cease operations, and I bet this won’t be the only unexpected collateral damage.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes presented Elon Musk with an ultimatum last night: appoint a new legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours or X will be banned.
The ongoing dispute follows X closing its office in Brazil after being ordered to remove several accounts for allegedly spreading hate speech and misinformation. The service remains available to Brazil’s estimated 40 million monthly users... for now.
Given the past history of X Spaces, I’m sure it will be easy to trust X Conference for your next important business meeting. (Well, assuming X Conference is released publicly.)
Following a similar order against the attorney general of Texas, Judge Amit Mehta has blocked an investigation into Media Matters For America by Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, who alleged MMFA broke the law with critical reports about Elon Musk’s X. X’s similarly speech-chilling lawsuit against MMFA remains ongoing.
Actor Jenna Ortega talked about mental health struggles and called her experience on Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — and with co-star Winona Ryder — “a very transformative time” in this New York Times interview.
She also mentions her own major (and personal) conflicts with AI and being on Twitter when she was very young.
In response to a request by Jacob Silverman, a court filing reveals who else owns a piece of the property formerly known as Twitter.
Of course, being on the list doesn’t necessarily mean those investments are going well, just ask the banks involved, but some of the names have bigger problems.
The resulting write-downs have hobbled the banks’ loan books and, in one case, was a factor that crimped compensation for a bank’s merger department, according to people involved with the deal.
Oh.
The site accuses Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes of a “secret order” to arrest its legal representative if X doesn’t “comply with his censorship orders.” Despite the change, “X service remains available to the people of Brazil.”
Justice de Moraes opened an investigation of the platform in April over its reactivation of accounts it was ordered to block. (The site soon reversed course.)
It’s seemingly easy to make the chatbot’s new image generator spit out the few things it supposedly can’t generate — including gore and even “child pornography if given the proper prompts,” says X user Christian Montessori.
While all AI models have loopholes, Elon Musk seems unfazed by the abuse, calling it a “step for people to have some fun.”
