The Deep state....this company went out of business WASHINGTON (TND) — A newly published report by the GOP-lead House Judiciary Committee alleges a powerful group of advertisers colluded to silence conservative media. Republican lawmakers are now accusing the World Federation of Advertisers of intentionally steering their clients away from buying ads on conservative media sites.
Why would advertisers buy ads on websites where their ads appear next to white supremacist hate posts? The GOP-lead House Judiciary Committee led by Jim Jordan is a joke. This has been well documented in other threads.
Another day, another outage. Another blow for Elon Musk after his $44 billion prized possession crashed https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...lon-musk-prize-possession-crashes-x-down.html Elon Musk's X, formally known as Twitter, was hit by another major outage that plagued users nationwide Friday. The platform, which Musk purchased for $44 billion, went down around 2:30pm ET as users noticed the app and website were not working. Downdetector, a site that monitors online outages, revealed the outage was largely hitting the eastern half of the US. By 3pm, over 50,000 X users had reported a problem to the outage-monitoring website. Although the problems appeared to start in the east, the biggest trouble zones centered in major Midwest cities like Dallas, Chicago, and Minneapolis. X users on Downdetector also reported being unable to use the social platform in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. (More at above url.)
Musk said a mere couple weeks ago that he was going to make the U.S. government IT systems just as safe as X/Twitter. Now X/Twitter has suffered the largest social media data breech in history.
Massive Data Breach At Elon Musk's X Reportedly Exposes Data Of Millions Of Accounts: 'By Far The Largest Social Media Breach Ever' https://www.benzinga.com/markets/25...of-millions-of-accounts-by-far-the-largest-so
X/Twitter is a financial cluster worldwide. X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover Social media platform formerly known as Twitter says 66.3% revenue drop was down to fall in advertising income https://www.theguardian.com/technol...s-uk-collapsed-year-after-elon-musk-took-over
It took the banks many years to get rid of this junk. Wall Street banks finally rid themselves of Elon Musk's X debt https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall...hemselves-of-elon-musks-x-debt-121843658.html "But those loans lost value as X struggled, and the banks weren’t able to get them off their books without taking significant losses."
This actually fits on the Elon Musk is a moron thread as well. Musk has been taking money from known terrorists to have blue check marks on their accounts so they can spread hate on X/Twitter. Over 200 accounts. Musk finds it easy to ban accounts who somehow offend him but somehow seems to be unable to suspend accounts of terrorists and takes money from people who are affiliated with groups under US economic sanctions, including ones imposed by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. To put mildly, it is illegal for Musk to take their payments. Elon Musk Is Doing Business With Actual Terrorists, Nonprofit Finds "There is clear evidence of these groups profiting and fundraising through X." https://futurism.com/elon-musk-twitter-subscription-terrorists Who's paying for a blue checkmark on X-formerly-Twitter these days? According to a new report by the big tech accountability nonprofit Tech Transparency Project (TTP), the answer is: a bunch of terrorists. The TTP investigation found that more than 200 X users including individuals who appear to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Syrian and Iraqi militia groups — all deemed foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) by the US government — are paying for subscriptions to Elon Musk's X. Put simply, Musk is doing business with actual terrorists, highlighting major flaws in his social media company's content moderation practices. These paid subscriptions are granting apparent terrorists blue verification badges, which can offer the accounts an added air of legitimacy. Most importantly, though, the subscriptions are granting the users access to premium X features and perks like content monetization tools, the ability to publish longer posts and videos, and greater platform reach — which the TTP says allows for terrorism-linked users to more effectively distribute and monetize propaganda, as well as promote their fundraising efforts. "They rely on the premium services for the amplification of long propaganda posts and extended videos," TTP director Katie Paul told The New York Times. "They are not just subscribing for the blue check notoriety, they are subscribing for the premium services." As the TTP points out, X's terms of use forbid users from paying for premium services if they're affiliated with groups under US economic sanctions, including ones imposed by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Neither X nor the Treasury Department responded to a NYT request for comment. Though X says it reviews subscribed accounts to ensure they "meet all eligibility criteria" for verification, the feature has been pretty broken since Musk took over the platform and made the feature pay-to-play. What's more, last year, a similar TTP report found that over two dozen users with apparent terror links were paying X subscribers with blue badges. Several of those accounts were banned or stripped of their verification status following the release of the report, but as the NYT points out, several have since been able to regain access to premium features. The TTP investigation raises serious questions about X's due diligence around content moderation and platform safety. After all, if X can suppress users that Musk doesn't like, and speech that authoritarian governments don't like, can't it keep US-designated terrorists — whether they're the real deal or impersonators — from nabbing blue checks and using X perks to spread and cash in on propaganda? "There is clear evidence of these groups profiting and fundraising through X," Paul told the NYT. "They are sanctioned for a reason, and the fact that somebody who has such influence and power in the federal government is at the same time profiting from these designated terrorist groups and individuals is extremely concerning."
Another day, another outage. Major setback for Elon Musk as his $44 billion pride and joy crashes https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14740699/Elon-Musk-x-twitter-crashes.html Elon Musk has encountered a series of setbacks in recent months, and the latest came as X has crashed in a widespread outage. X has become Musk's primary platform for sharing his often controversial and unconventional views. The outage largely affected users along the East Coast, with reports also coming in from Dallas, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Downdetector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, confirmed connection issues. The crash comes amid a string of blows for Musk, including a political defeat in Wisconsin, a sharp decline in Tesla's stock value and growing criticism over his government role and the so-called 'DOGE' initiative. Users have shared their frustrations on Downdetector, saying X's 'servers are as slow as a snail.' Other users cannot even open the website or access the app. 'This is Why Discord and Youtube is Way better Platform than Twitter. There Hardly any Random outages on those Sites. #ElonMuskResign,' one person shared on Downdetector. Downdetector began logging reports of issues with X around 11am ET, but the number of complaints spiked about two hours later. Roughly 56 percent of users cited problems with the website, 35 percent with the mobile app, and 9 percent reported server connection issues. A failed server connection means a device or application cannot communicate with its server, potentially leading to service disruptions, data loss, or even security vulnerabilities. The outage is yet another setback for Elon Musk, who recently claimed victory over a new voter ID law in Wisconsin, despite Republican candidate Brad Schimel losing to Democrat Susan Crawford in April’s Supreme Court election. Reports show Musk and his allies spent more than $20 million supporting Schimel, the former Wisconsin attorney general, in an effort to shift the court’s ideological balance. Crawford received significant backing from billionaires George Soros and J.B. Pritzker. To make matters worse, Tesla sales plummeted 13 percent that same month. Some experts linked the drop to Musk’s polarizing posts on X and intensifying competition in China from domestic electric vehicle manufacturers. Musk has also faced international criticism over his social media behavior, including unproven allegations of making a Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration -an accusation he denies. The backlash has fueled anti-Tesla protests and vandalism, with several incidents targeting the company's vehicles such as the Model 3, Model X, and the polarizing Cybertruck. And about three weeks ago, President Donald Trump's chief of staff has revealed Musk was no longer working at the White House after spending the first 100 Days by the president's side. After months of dominating the West Wing, attending Cabinet meetings, riding shotgun on Air Force One, and even bringing his toddler son 'X' into high-level budget briefings, Musk has been notably absent from the White House campus.
An outage nearly every day -- Let's see how Saturday went. Welcome to Musk's X/Twitter. Remember Elon fired all the competent people who could actually keep the platform up & running without continuous failures. Elon's laughable solution -- you all need to come into the building and work 24/7 to fix it. Elon Musk Changes Everything After X (Twitter) Outage After an X outage disrupted thousands of users, Musk pledges to refocus on his business empire, including Tesla, X, xAI, and more. https://www.mensjournal.com/news/elon-musk-changes-everything-after-x-twitter-outage