Twitter - X

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.

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.

Grok, X’s AI assistant, summed up how X users have evaluated Musk’s skills as an interviewer: not good.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Randal Cooper imagines a response to a user trying to quit the platform formerly known as Twitter:

In an all-hands at X, CEO Linda Yaccarino attempted to rally the troops after filing a lawsuit against a coalition of major advertisers, claiming they had coordinated an “illegal boycott” and cost the company billions of dollars.

X is moving out from the building Elon Musk famously walked into while carrying a kitchen sink, per an internal memo I’ve seen.

Mark Kalman, X’s engineering lead of media, and his second-in-command, Melissa Merencillo, resigned today. They announced their departures in a company Slack channel on the day stocks vest at X; Merencillo told The Verge that the timing had no bearing on their decision.

There’s no official confirmation, but the app — which has been abandoned before — has been delisted from the Mac App Store. It’s still functional, although it’s been increasingly buggy since the transition to X. It remains one of the last vestiges of Twitter iconography and terminology which I’ll memorialize in the grab below.

Based on the screenshot below from app researcher Nima Owji, the new checkmark would be in the same menu as other per-post options that let you limit replies. X employee Christopher Stanley confirmed the feature, Engadget spotted.

I nodded a lot at this Max Read piece about how we perceive the world now, particularly the current “vibe shift” in politics but also just... everything. I feel like we’ve been debating “is Twitter really the world?” for 15 years now, but the answer feels more slippery than ever.

The platform is promoting trending topics including “staged” and “#falseflag” — the kinds of conspiracy theories that other major social networks might moderate away.

That’s a whole lot easier than scrolling through several years worth of bookmarks just to find a particular post. The feature is only available on the web and iOS for now.

As reported by The Financial Times:

The best part of X’s post is this reply.