Peter Kafka: You got it all. Lauren Goode: What’s your favorite part of the episode? Peter Kafka: Well, this is a very inside joke. Has anyone here heard of a Cheetah Girl? Anyone? No. Kate Knibbs: Aren’t they like a Disney Channel, yeah. Peter Kafka: Thank you, Kate. We’ve had a long-running debate about whether…
When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, experts warned that his proposed changes—including less content moderation and a subscription-based verification system—would lead to an exodus of users and advertisers. A year later, those predictions have largely borne out. Advertising revenue on the platform has declined 55 percent since Musk’s takeover, and the number…
X has banned the account of a prominent critic after he published data that he claims exposed the site’s embrace of the far-right after Elon Musk’s takeover last year. Travis Brown, a software developer based in Berlin, alleges his account was first suspended on July 1 this year, several months after his data formed the…
