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NPR Lost Only 1% of Its Web Traffic After Leaving X
The social media platform had provided a mere 2% of NPR’s traffic before a “state sponsored media” tag sent it packing
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EU Official Accuses Elon Musk of ‘False and Misleading’ X Posts About Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
“You are well aware of your users’ — and authorities’ — reports on fake content and glorification of violence,” Thierry Breton says
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino Will Skip WSJ Tech Live After Widely Panned Code Conference Interview
She attributes this to needing to “remain fully focused on X platform safety” during unspecified “global crisis”
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X Has Seen ‘At Least’ 55% Year-Over-Year Ad Revenue Decline Every Month Since Musk Takeover (Report)
The biggest decline was in December, when ad revenue plunged 78%; it remained down 60% in August
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Brian Kilmeade Calls Elon Musk the ‘Smartest Man in Our Country,’ Predicts He Could Solve the Migration Crisis (Video)
“He’s not hanging out at SpaceX touring rockets or Tesla finding out about the new electric car or his tunnel program or electrodes in his brain,” the Fox News host says
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Linda Yaccarino Predicts X Will Be Profitable in 2024
The CEO says “90% of the top 100 advertisers have returned” to the platform while usage time has risen
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X Cuts 4 Employees Tracking Election Disinformation From Europe (Report)
The elections integrity team is now about half the size it was when Elon Musk bought the platform formerly known as Twitter
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X Calls Itself ‘Formerly Twitter’ in App Store Shift
The description change may reflect consumer confusion over the social media platform’s rebrand
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Elon Musk Starts Pointless Fight With Ice Cube, Rapper Roasts Twitter’s Decline
The X CEO’s stolen meme led to the N.W.A wordsmith slamming the whole platform
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Former TNT, TBS, TruTV GM Brett Weitz Joins X as Head of Content, Talent and Brand Sales
Linda Yaccarino is also tapping former NBCUniversal, Dow Jones and Teads executives as part of the new leadership team
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Elon Musk Biographer Is ‘Too Close to His Subject,’ Reviewers Say
“It’s the book Musk would have written himself,” L.A. Times columnist Brian Merchant writes
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Elon Musk Blurs Lines of Authority With CEO Linda Yaccarino, Report Says
The X owner still makes content decisions that appear to override some of his CEO’s efforts to draw advertisers back to the platform, the Wall Street Journal says
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Elon Musk Threatens to Sue the Anti Defamation League, Blames Org for 60% Ad Revenue Drop
“To clear our platform’s name on the matter of antisemitism, it looks like we have no choice,” Musk says
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X to Start Collecting Users’ Biometric, Employment Data
The social-media platform’s updated privacy policy offers hints at the evolution owner Elon Musk is aiming for
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Facebook Takes Down Over 7,700 Accounts Linked to Chinese Misinformation Campaign
Parent company Meta says the campaign targeted more than 50 platforms, including X, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest and Medium