6 posts tagged ‘truth social’
Neil Young is boycotting Twitter/X
AV Club,
Neil Young just wants to keep rockin’ in a free world. Last year, the prolific folk artist made headlines for pulling his music off Spotify in protest of the streamer platforming Joe Rogan and his anti-vaccination rhetoric. Now, Young is also retracting his business from Twitter/X in protest of (who else) Elon Musk. Read more...
Disney, Apple, and more suspend Twitter ads amid Elon Musk antisemitism scandal
Several of the biggest companies on the planet—including Disney and Apple, plus Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes studio Lionsgate—have suspended ads on the social networking service we’ll just go ahead and keep calling Twitter today. This comes after the company’s owner, Elon Musk, made a post on Wednesday in which he… Read more...
Tesla Investors Call for Elon Musk to Be Suspended, Apple Pulls Ads on X
Gizmodo,
Tesla shareholders condemned Elon Musk’s antisemitic behavior, on his own social media platform, X, and other media outlets Thursday. Some investors are publicly saying he should be suspended, according to a Bloomberg report Friday. Apple also took action over Musk’s tweets by pausing ads on X, Axios reported Friday. Read more...
Elon Musk Shares His Thoughts on Jews
For years, some people with the unlucky habit of paying too much attention to Elon Musk have complained the man is a racist. He’s posted countless dog whistles, liked disturbing tweets, and used his platform to boost white nationalists, but he’s always managed to walk right up to the line of plausible deniability. But… Read more...
So Far, Trump's Truth Social Has Set $73 Million on Fire
Less than two years after it launched, Donald Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, might be headed for the internet graveyard. New federal filings show that Truth, like a lot of Trump businesses, has lost massive amounts of money ($73 million, in this case) and is drifting, inevitably, toward insolvency. The… Read more...
Building a conservative internet is an expensive proposition
TechCrunch,
New data from TMTG and Rumble can help us understand how right-leaning social media services with long-term goals of building less restricted digital infrastructure are faring. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.