Enlarge / Photo illustration shows the Discord logo and the suspect, national guardsman Jack Teixeira, reflected in an image of the Pentagon in Washington, DC. reader comments 85 with Share this story On Friday, Air Force National Guard airman Jack Teixeira was charged with two counts under the Espionage Act, alleging his unlawful gathering and ..
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Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado reader comments 183 with Share this story Parler, the self-described “uncancelable free speech platform,” has been sold and shut down while its new owner conducts a “strategic assessment.” The platform will be back eventually, new owner Starboard says. The Parler website is now a simple page containing only today’s press ..
Enlarge / Cars parked at the Tesla Fremont Factory in Fremont, California, on February 10, 2022. Getty Images | Josh Edelson reader comments 32 with Share this story Tesla was sued yesterday by a California state agency that says the Elon Musk-led carmaker is stonewalling an investigation into alleged discrimination and harassment. “Tesla’s failure to ..
reader comments 131 with Share this story Last month, Twitter CEO Elon Musk told employees that they’d be eligible to receive stocks in X Corporation—the new name for the holding company that he initially set up to purchase Twitter—telling them that soon Twitter could be worth $250 billion. More recently, an April court filing shows ..
Enlarge / FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at US District Court on March 30, 2023, in New York City after being hit with a new criminal charge for allegedly authorizing a bribe of at least $40 million to one or more Chinese government officials. Getty Images | Michael Santiago reader comments 40 with Share this ..
Enlarge / NPR’s Twitter profile as of April 9, 2023. reader comments 369 with Share this story When Elon Musk slapped NPR’s Twitter account with a “US state-affiliated media” label last week, it quickly became clear he didn’t know much about how NPR operates or how it’s funded. After admitting the state-affiliated label was wrong, ..
Enlarge / TikTok ad at a Metro station in Washington, DC on March 30, 2023. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 56 with Share this story Banning TikTok has been a hot topic in Congress lately. But if lawmakers go through with a ban on the social network owned by Chinese company ByteDance, the US ..
reader comments 189 with Share this story After the Federal Trade Commission launched a probe into Twitter over privacy concerns, Twitter’s negotiations with the FTC do not seem to be going very well. Last week, it was revealed that Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s request last year for a meeting with FTC Chair Lina Khan was ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 182 with Share this story Twitter users on Friday began noticing that they could not retweet or reply to tweets containing links to the Substack.com domain. This behavior seems to have started less than 48 hours after the popular newsletter platform announced a new product called Notes that will ..
Enlarge / Tesla Model X SUV at the European Motor Show on January 9, 2020, in Brussels, Belgium. Getty Images | Sjoerd van der Wal reader comments 245 with Share this story From 2019 to at least mid-2022, Tesla employees used an internal messaging system to share “sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by ..
