Friends, the man is sleeping at the office of the DOGE
An email sent by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Twitter employees after Twitter was taken over by him states, “The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work.” Employees were told to return to work five days a week or resign and receive benefits and pay until September.
What a second Trump presidency means for tech
After US President-elect Donald Trump took to social media to congratulate him for winning the election, Google’s Sundar Pichai wrote on Twitter, “Thank you for the confidence in me and in the future of Google.” Amazon’s Andy Jassy said, “I’m looking forward to working with him as the FTC chair.” Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tweeted, “Excited to be working with Trump for a second term.”
The America PAC created an Election Denial Cesspool
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reinstated accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Andrew Tate, both of which were banned by Twitter years ago. Twitter had banned them for “engaging in targeted targeting of public figures” ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. Earlier, Musk had also reinstated accounts of Jones and Tate, who were banned several years ago.
Who is OpenAI’s new interim CEO?
Sam Altman, who was CEO of AI startup OpenAI, announced on Friday that he’s leaving the company. “I loved my time at openai. He predicted artificial intelligence will be ‘the greatest leap forward of any technological revolution we’ve had so far’,” Altman said. He had joined OpenAI in 2013 from Twitter, where he was the VP and Co-founder.
It is possible that Musk just signed X’s death warrant
IBM has pulled its advertising from Twitter’s ‘X’ after CEO Elon Musk said that it promoted far-right talking points. IBM had an ad next to “pro-Nazi and pro-Hitler content” on the platform, Media Matters and Financial Times pointed out. Earlier this week, Musk wrote on Twitter that he opposed any group that promoted racism and was against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The first election crisis happened a day after Musk freed the bird
Elon Musk has said Twitter’s advertising revenue was “still down” 60% in September, according to Reuters. This comes after Musk himself said that ad revenue on the platform has decreased year-over-year every month since he bought the platform. Visa spent only $10 on Twitter in weeks preceding Chris Yaccarino’s comments, down from $77,500 before Musk bought the company.
Police will not fine Musk for livestreaming while driving
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is in violation of his employer’s guidelines that advise drivers to keep their hands on steering yoke at all times, media reports said. This comes after Musk livestreamed his drive from the driver’s seat and also interacted with Twitter commenters during the drive. Musk was forced to take the steering wheel as the car tried to go through a red light.
A lot of scientists are cutting back on their social media activities
A study conducted by Nature has found that many scientists have stopped tweeting about their scientific papers on Twitter’s experimental platform, X, as a result of Elon Musk’s decision to shut it down. The study showed that approximately half of scientists who were identified through social-media research project as having tweeted about papers on which they were an author had reduced or stopped tweeting on X.
An anti-hate organization has been threatened with legal action by Twitter for reporting on hate speech
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said that its lawsuit against Microsoft and Twitter was an attempt to “silence” it for its independent research. CCDH said the lawsuit is an attempt to “silence” its research, adding, “The Center for Countering Digital Hate has no intention of stopping our independent research – Musk will not bully us into silence.”