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X under Elon Musk continues to decline, both as a real-time news feed, and a free speech app, with the platform continuing to selectively restrict and block certain users and businesses, seemingly all based on the whims of its billionaire…

This is a bit morbid, and a little onerous of X, considering the circumstances. Over the weekend, X updated its Violent Content policy to include a new clause called “Moment of Death”, which includes a form that people can fill…

As it continues to evolve its business offerings, Reddit has announced a new partnership with Intercontinental Exchange to facilitate the development of advanced data and analytics products for the financial industry. The new collaboration will see the creation of systems…

YouTube has announced an expanded release of its text-for-speech feature for Shorts, while it’s also launching a new series to help promote safer internet use among teens for Safer Internet Day as part of its latest feature update. First off,…

As it continues to gain momentum, and add more users, Threads is now also moving its own realms in regards to posting functionality, as opposed to replicating the features of other apps. Which isn’t really Meta’s strong suit anymore, considering…

Honestly, it’s hard to work out what X is trying to achieve by sharing vague, non-contextualized performance figures, many of which are tracked in seconds, outside of trying to dupe people with ridiculously high surface-level figures. X has quickly established…

Of all of his political targets, and criticisms of the leadership of different nations, Elon Musk’s recent criticism of Germany’s government may be the strangest. Or maybe “riskiest” is a more apt term. In recent weeks, Musk has loudly broadcast…

After testing them out over the last few weeks, X has now officially launched its new “Parody” account labels, which aim to reduce confusion around what’s being shared, and by whom, in the app. As you can see in this…

X could be facing new penalties in Europe, with EU investigators now exploring whether the Elon Musk-owned platform may have violated EU rules, due to its change in approach to allow more speech, including more harmful content, under Musk’s more…

UPDATE: An X user claims that this report is based on false information that they shared with Fortune. I’m not really sure why Elon Musk is so annoyed by clutter in the main X feed, but for some reason, he…