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Elon Musk must face fraud lawsuit for disclosing Twitter stake late

U.S. District Judge said shareholders in proposed class action could try to prove that Musk intended to defraud by waiting 11 days past US SEC deadline to reveal he had bought 5% of Twitter's shares

California man sues Musk for defamation on post that falsely identified him

A California man who says he was harassed after Elon Musk amplified posts on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that falsely placed the man at a confrontation involving far-right protesters sued the billionaire for defamation in a lawsuit filed Monday. Benjamin Brody, 22, is represented by Mark Bankston, a Texas attorney who won a defamation case last year against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a lawsuit brought by families of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Brody is seeking a jury trial in Austin, Texas, and unspecified damages of at least USD 1 million. Attorneys for Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment left through a spokesperson. In June, video posted to X showed a confrontation involving protesters near a Pride festival in Oregon. Some of those involved wore the same colours of the Proud Boys extremist group, according to The Oregonian. On X, some users falsely identified one of the participants as Brody, highlighting his ...

Upping WhatsApp's payload: How Meta is monetising users in India

Its might in India is at the forefront of Meta's drive to monetise messaging with payments

Elon Musk streams himself playing 'Diablo IV' to test X capacity

The broadcast on X, formerly Twitter, lasted 52 minutes, of which the first dozen were spent setting up the stream correctly, with a staffer helping Musk

X partners with Paris Hilton for video push in bid to revamp platform

X will work with Hilton to create original video content on fashion, beauty, travel and other topics, the company announced Monday

X has been losing daily active users since Musk takeover: CEO Yaccarino

Last year, Elon Musk posted a series of tweets which showed that Twitter had 254.5 million daily active users

Elon Musk, German govt spar on X over maritime migrant rescue operations

Germany's government rebuked X owner Elon Musk after he criticised the recent work of migrant rescue ships that German humanitarian groups operate in the Mediterranean Sea. Musk late Friday shared a video that showed migrants and aid workers on a boat. The right-wing account that first put the content on X, formerly known as Twitter, praised the populist far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has taken a hard line on migration issues. Is the German public aware of this? Musk wrote in his repost. The German Federal Foreign Office replied to Musk directly on X, writing: Yes. And it's called saving lives. Musk responded that he doubted the German public supports the actions of non-governmental organisations that take asylum-seekers from unseaworthy vessels in the Mediterranean. He also asserted it was surely a violation of Italy's sovereignty for German-operated ships to bring rescued migrants to Italian territory. So you're actually proud of it. Interesting, he wrote to th

Threads to allow account deletion without wiping out linked Instagram ID

The lack of an account delete option on Threads without having to delete the Instagram account has drawn criticism from users since the launch of the social media platform

Google, Facebook, X, Edtech Cos likely to pay up to 18% IGST from October 1

OIDAR service provider companies such as Google, X, and Facebook may have to pay integrated GST up to 18 per cent on services provided to the government and individuals in India

X CEO Yaccarino says Musk-owned platform could turn a profit next year

"The velocity of change and the scope of ambition at X really does not exist anywhere else," Yaccarino said

Humans of New York founder criticises Indian spinoff over copyright row

In a row that's gone viral on social media, Humans of New York founder Brandon Stanton criticized Humans of Bombay for "sueing people for what I've forgiven you for"

Musk's X is biggest purveyor of disinformation, EU official claims

A top European Union official said on Tuesday that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc's laws aimed at combating disinformation. Ahead of upcoming elections, Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Meta also have more to do to tackle disinformation, much of it coming from Russia, which is using social media to wage a war of ideas" against democracy, European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said. Moscow's disinformation operation is a multimillion-euro weapon of mass manipulation aimed both internally at the Russians as well as at Europeans and the rest of the world, she said at a press briefing in Brussels. With elections scheduled in Slovakia and Poland in the coming weeks and a bloc-wide vote next year, big online platforms must address the risk of online meddling, she said. The Kremlin and other malicious actors will try to use the design features of the platforms to manipulate, Jourov

Tesla AI can do Yoga and other activities, Musk reacts to video shared on X

Tesla shared a video of its Optimus humanoid robot, which can do a variety of tasks, including Yoga, sorting blocks, etc. Check the video below

Soon, Instagram's Threads to let users edit published posts: Details here

Unlike X, which offers this feature only to premium subscribers, the edit feature will be open to everybody on Instagram's Threads

TMS Ep527: Akasa Air trouble, Twitter paywall, markets, household savings

What's weighing down Akasa Air? Will you pay for Twitter? What next after JPMorgan index inclusion? What do household net financial savings mean? All answers here

X social media's India, South Asia policy head Samiran Gupta resigns

Gupta's tenure at X ended in September, according to Gupta's LinkedIn profile, which said he "enabled transition leadership for Twitter post acquisition by Elon Musk-led X-Corp"

Musk shares his plan to implement a paywall in interview with Israel's PM

Musk wanted to implement a paywall and shared his thoughts in his interview with Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu. One of the users wrote that he wants to kill the platform

Children addicted to social media, user age limit needed: Karnataka HC

The court noted that some content should not only be banned from the social media but from the internet

Musk says X may go behind paywall, charge users a 'small monthly payment'

The Tesla and SpaceX boss didn't specify what the new subscription payment would cost but described it as a "small amount of money"

Threads rolls out X-inspired quote post feature on web client: Details here

Users can now quote a post on Threads similar to the X (formerly Twitter) on its web client. It is yet another feature that brings Threads closer to X in terms of user experience