New Delhi: Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter (now called X), has quit the board of Bluesky, a decentralised social media platform he also helped co-founded. The company said in a post that it is now searching for a new board member. “With Jack’s departure, we are searching for a new board member for the Bluesky … Read more
New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, on Saturday, said that a new update on “improved image matching” will defeat deepfakes as well as shallowfakes on social media platform X. The new update will show notes on 30 per cent more posts that contain “similar or identical images.” “We just rolled out the update … Read more
New Delhi: Some people are running huge bot operations on the micro-blogging site X, which is reducing the content quality to a great extent, Elon Musk said on Saturday, as he defended his decision to act on spam accounts which resulted in many users losing followers. Earlier this month, the social media platform kicked off … Read more
New Delhi: Elon Musk-run X has added support for “passkeys” as a login option for iOS users in the US. “Today we’re excited to launch Passkeys as a login option for our US-based users on iOS,” the company announced on X on Tuesday. “A passkey is a new, easy-to-use, and secure way to log in … Read more
New Delhi: Cybercriminals are profiting from X “Gold” verification badge by selling compromised accounts for phishing and scams on the dark web marketplaces and forums, a new report revealed on Thursday. According to the cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, these accounts pose a huge risk for organisations and individuals alike, as they can be used to spread … Read more
San Francisco: Elon Musk-run X (formerly Twitter) has lost a bid to block a California law requiring social media companies to disclose how they handle content moderation on their platforms. In September, X sued California to undo the state’s content moderation law, saying it violated free speech rights under the US Constitution’s First Amendment and … Read more
New Delhi: Elon Musk-run X Corp. banned a record 3,33,036 accounts in India between October 26 and November 25, mostly for promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity. The micro-blogging platform, going through a churning under Musk, who has recently appointed a new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, also took down 2,233 accounts for promoting terrorism on … Read more
