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Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds

Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to...

Facebook now only stores live videos for 30 days, will delete old broadcasts

Facebook announced on Tuesday that live videos will now only be stored on the social network for 30 days, after which they will...

X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers

Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) is blocking links to Signal.me, a URL shortener used by the private messaging app Signal that allows users...

Meta CTO says staff should quit if they dont like Metas new policies

Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth has choice words for Meta employees frustrated with the tech giant’s latest policies: They are free to quit, Business...

Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for...

Elon Musk said hes not interested in acquiring TikTok

Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an interview at...

German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections

Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest...

Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and suggested that it could be used...

DeepSeek will get Silicon Valley speaking

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re DeepSeek’s major boost in the U.S.; Elon Musk admitting he was nasty about...

X expands lawsuit over advertiser boycott to encompass Lego, Nestl, Pinterest, and others

X is now suing extra advertisers in an antitrust lawsuit focusing on what the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has claimed is a “systematic...

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