The social media platform says it’s seen a 60 percent surge in signups in the United Kingdom, telling Reuters that the region had “the most Bluesky signups of any country” for the majority of last week.
The spike comes as X users, including Labour MPs, claim to be jumping to alternative platforms following Elon Musk’s controversial comments about nationwide riots in the UK.
This time, it’s not House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) calling for a probe of platform censorship. His ranking member, Jerry Nadler (D-NY), is the one calling on Jordan to probe Elon Musk’s X for political censorship of Democrats on the platform. Jordan is typically the one raving about conservative censorship by Meta and others. I guess two can play that game.
[U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democrats]
Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) handed down the ~$600,000 fine in favor of Gary Rooney, who was fired from Twitter in 2022 after failing to click “yes” in an email asking employees to accept Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” work culture or leave.
As reported by RTE, the WRC found Rooney’s choice to not click “yes” was “not capable of constituting an act of resignation.”
Grok, X’s AI assistant, summed up how X users have evaluated Musk’s skills as an interviewer: not good.
He’s both not engaged enough and constantly butting in, trying to flex his knowledge on topics he knows little about. At one point he asked for a job!
Good thing he told us this would be a conversation, not an interview.
Users are lighting up X with posts about the Elon / Trump space, and an AI-generated trending topic aggregated user posts about Trump’s “unusual speech pattern,” which some are attributing to ill-fitting dentures (there’s no proof whether Trump has dentures or not).
X’s automated trending topics have a history of getting things disastrously wrong.
Update: X has since taken down this AI-generated trending topic.
Elon is sticking with the DDOS excuse, which multiple sources at X tell The Verge is almost certainly untrue.
Fort Worth, Texas Judge Reed O’Connor, who is presiding over Elon Musk-owned X’s antitrust lawsuit against advertisers and one against Media Matters, has invested as much as $50,000 in Tesla stock, NPR reports.
O’Connor is known for conservative-friendly rulings, such as one calling Obamacare unconstitutional (later overturned because he didn’t have jurisdiction).
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says the EU will watch for “spillovers” that violate the Digital Services Act, such as “content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political - or societal - events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”
The “conversation” starts at 8PM ET on the former president’s X account on the service formerly known as Twitter which Musk previously said “must be politically neutral” to deserve our trust.
Musk says he’s doing some “system scaling tests,” hoping to avoid another system meltdown like we saw when he tried to launch Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign on Spaces.
[Twitter Spaces]
At the moment, if you type “from:realdonaldtrump” followed by a specific term in X’s search bar, you’ll get the same set of results, seemingly no matter what you type, according to a Mediaite story spotted by Engadget.
I experienced the same thing when I tried it, but could still search other accounts this way. X responded with an auto-reply when reached for comment.
Omid Kordestani’s lawsuit, which was reported on by The New York Times, follows a lawsuit from the company’s former CEO, CFO, chief legal officer, and former general counsel over more than $128 million in unpaid severance.
[The New York Times]
