X business model is changing, according to new financials
When Elon Musk bought the former Twitter, it was heavily reliant on ads from blue-chip companies
Bluesky to roll out verification for organisations and users
Social network to proactively verify authentic notable accounts, adding check mark next to their names
What if Mark Zuckerberg had not bought Instagram and WhatsApp?
The big ticket deals were derided at the time, but the apps are now two of the most important parts of Meta’s business
Ireland will ‘resist’ EU trade tax on US tech firms, says Taoiseach
Martin cites damage to ‘significant sector’ in Republic if union should impose levies as retaliation
Elon Musk’s X records Irish pre-tax loss of €753m in 2022
Data Protection Commission to investigate X over AI model training
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Musk’s xAI buys social media platform X for $45bn
Combined company valued at $80 billion, businessman announces
The Siren’s Call and Owned: Commodifying attention and journalistic guns for hire
Two books ask important questions about how our attention is manipulated and monetised
Elon Musk’s Irish friends and their influence on the powerful billionaire
Musk frequently shares or highlights posts complaining about immigration into Ireland by Michael O’Keeffe, one of a number of Irish people to have grabbed the world’s richest man’s attention
Musk’s X in talks to raise money at $44bn valuation
Valuation would match price Musk paid for site despite loss of users and advertisers
The Irish musical slammed by the White House as an ‘insane’ waste of $70,000
‘As an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,’ Donald Trump’s press secretary told reporters
SEC sues Elon Musk over Twitter-related share violations
Regulator alleges businessman’s failure to follow disclosure rules delivered $150m benefit on share purchases
YouTube chief Neal Mohan bets on AI and ‘creators’ to supercharge growth
Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals
Irish Quakers join ‘Twitter eXodus’, abandoning social network over misinformation and harmful content
Elon Musk’s social media network has been a source of ‘disquiet for many years’, says religious group
Elon Musk’s X accuses Ireland’s media watchdog of ‘regulatory overreach’
Twitter International takes issue with new Online Safety Code’s approach to “restricted” video content
Forget Bluesky and pre-Musk Twitter. Friendship is the only true antidote to polarisation
It is less easy to hate someone with baffling ideas when you know and like them as a person
Social media taps into a dark human need to be mean to other people
As people – even Stephen King – flee the platform, discussion of where to move to feels underpinned by a sadness that the kind of virtual space they crave may no longer be possible
Bluesky is starting to surge amid upheaval in the social media world
Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m
Sport Twitter, now X, deplorable, compelling and mindless ... but still, it’s hard to say goodbye
‘It can feel like this is the space where we all put our most toxic part, where the collective black dog lurks’
The Guardian leaves X, calling it a ‘toxic media platform’
News outlet cites 'often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform' and says US election 'underlined' its decision
High Court gives X six weeks to file defence to George Galloway’s defamation claim
Broadcaster and former MP suing social media platform over labelling his account ‘Russian state-affiliated’
New online safety code to protect children on social platforms including Facebook, YouTube and TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s code will affect all video-sharing platforms with EU headquarters in Ireland
George Galloway’s legal team to ask X to file defamation defence in High Court
Former British MP took action against the social media platform two years ago after it labelled his account ‘Russian state-affiliated media’
Is Twitter to blame for Tesla’s troubles?
Carmakers shares down 40% since Musk bought social media network
The silence of the ‘Shinnerbots’: How social media lost political credibility
So-called ‘slop’ is driving people and advertisers from social media. But platforms are also throttling political content
As X declines, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue
The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo at Bluesky
Twitter appeals WRC record payout ruling for unfair dismissal
Social media giant – now known as X – ordered to pay award of €550,131 to former executive Gary Rooney
Australia proposes legal minimum age for children to access social media
Restriction to apply between 14 and 16 with age verification technology trial to begin soon, says PM
Advertisers threaten to cut spending on Elon Musk’s X in record numbers
Trend follows widespread concern about companies appearing next to controversial material
Tesla’s brand takes another hit amid Musk controversies
The electric vehicle group’s founder is more likely to be in the news these days for his hard-right ramblings than for EVs
Mean to the fiddler: Band in unfair sacking case had more than €376,000 in earnings
Plus: Pizza man Brian MacGoey buys an upper-crust pad, Google eyes Boland’s Mills merch, and Young Fine Gael in a flap about proposed social media ban
Can tech executives be held responsible for what happens on their platforms?
Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content
Brazilian court orders ‘total suspension’ of X as row with Elon Musk deepens
Internet providers in Brazil will be told to block social media platform as Musk misses deadline to appoint legal representative in the country
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