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Elon Musk to fund legal bill of people treated unfairly due to posting on X

Musk on Sunday tweeted, "If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know"

Ukraine proposed peace formula to restore int'l rules-based order: Zelensky

Zelenskyy posted a video message on Twitter, saying that a total of 42 countries are represented at the peace talks in Jeddah and everyone is united by the priority of international law

Elon Musk's X challenges Delhi court ruling on content blocking orders

If X's appeal is rejected, the government "will be emboldened to issue more blocking orders" that violate law, said X's 96 page filing submitted by local law firm Poovayya & Co

Twitter files appeal in Karnataka HC against order dismissing its plea

Microblogging site Twitter (now X Corp) has approached the High Court of Karnataka against the earlier order of a single judge bench which had dismissed its petition challenging the Centre's blocking orders. The single judge bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit had also imposed a cost of Rs 50 lakh on Twitter in its judgement on June 30. The appeal filed by Twitter will come up before a division bench of the High Court. Twitter's main contention was that Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) had issued blocking orders under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act without issuing notice to the account holders. The appeal filed on August 1 is yet to be listed for hearing by the High Court. The appeal challenges the imposition of the Rs 50 lakh cost as unjust and excessive and has sought an interim relief of keeping it in suspension. Twitter was ordered to pay the fine within August 14 by the single judge bench. The order had also specified that if Twitter fai

Elon Musk's X challenges India court ruling on content blocking orders

X, formerly known as Twitter, in July 2022 sought to overturn some government orders to remove content from its platform, without specifying which

X social media reveals reporting structure under Elon Musk: CEO Yaccarino

The company said both Musk and Yaccarino will oversee the trust and safety team, which is responsible for content moderation

We will not : X CEO Musk refuses incentives to move HQ from San Francisco

Taking to his official handle on X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk said he was being offered some rich incentives to move its headquarters out of San Francisco

Monthly users of X hits new high after organisational changes, claims Musk

Musk asserted the same by posting a graph of user statistics that indicated the most recent count to be above 540 million

X logo on Twitter building spurs officials to investigate permit violation

The city of San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation into a giant X sign that was installed Friday on top of the downtown building formerly known as Twitter headquarters as owner Elon Musk continues his rebrand of the social media platform. City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons. The X appeared after San Francisco police stopped workers on Monday from removing the brand's iconic bird and logo from the side of the building, saying they hadn't taped off the sidewalk to keep pedestrians safe if anything fell. Any replacement letters or symbols would require a permit to ensure consistency with the historic nature of the building and to make sure additions are safely attached to the sign, Patrick Hannan, spokesperson for the Department of Building Inspection said earlier this week. Erecting a sign on top of a building also requires a permit, Hannan said ...

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The X-factor in X

As Elon Musk rebrands Twitter and replaces its iconic bird logo with an X, here's unravelling the enigma of the 24th letter of the English alphabet

Meta plans retention 'hooks' for Threads as over half of users leave app

Zuckerberg said he considered the drop-off "normal" and expected retention to grow as the company adds more features to the app, including a desktop version and search functionality

Twitter Blue subscribers can now download videos posted by others on X

However, X users will not be able to download any videos posted before 25 July

TMS Ep486: IT return, Tweets turns X, Jio-BlackRock JV, gigafactory

Why do so few Indians pay income tax? Will the 'X' Factor help revive Twitter? Can the Jio-BlackRock JV stir the AMC pot? What is a gigafactory? All answers here

Meta has rare opportunity to seize momentum with Twitter rival 'Threads'

Threads could help bring the center of internet culture back to Meta, once again making it a place where things happen first

Musk wants to turn tweets into 'X's', changing language isn't quite simple

Elon Musk may want to send tweet back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay at least for now. For one, the word is still plastered all over the site formerly known as Twitter. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says tweet to publish it. To repost it, you still tap retweet. But it's more than that. With tweets, Twitter accomplished in just a few years something few companies have done in a lifetime: It became a verb and implanted itself into the lexicon of America and the world. Upending that takes more than a top-down declaration, even if it is from the owner of Twitter-turned-X, who also happens to be one of the world's richest men. Language has always come from the people that use it on a day-to-day basis. And it can't be controlled, it can't created, it can't be morphed. You don't get to decide it, said Nick Bilton, the author of Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

Beyond rebranding

Changes in Twitter are destroying value

Twitter starts cutting its ad prices after rebranding as 'X': Report

X is also warning brands that they will lose their verified status unless they reach certain spending thresholds

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Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally

X is so widely used and cited in trademarks that it is a candidate for legal challenges - and the company formerly known as Twitter could face its own issues defending its X brand in the future