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    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Israel conflict lets loose a deluge of falsehoods on social media

      Platforms are again under scrutiny for failing to curb misinformation

      A montage of logos of Tiktok, Telegram and Meta
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      Work & Careers
      Influencers and CEOs take their brands to LinkedIn

      Once purely a jobs board, users say the platform is now more valuable than rivals

      A montage image of the LinkedIn logo with headshots, of Craig Mullaney, Zain Kahn, Sahil Bloom, Jason Mayden and Gretchen Rubin
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      X Corp
      EU opens probe into Musk’s X over Israel-Hamas war misinformation

      Investigation is first under bloc’s Digital Services Act and follows letter raising concerns about platform

      Thierry Breton
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Disrupted Times
      Global regulators scramble to address threat of fake news

      Also in this newsletter: international tax treaty, IMF warns on deficits, ExxonMobil strikes a mega-deal

      Elon Musk
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      OutlookChloe Cornish
      India has embraced WhatsApp, but Meta now needs to make it pay

      The country has become a Petri dish for examining how business messaging can work — and bring in revenue

      A WhatsApp ambassador dressed in a green shirt with the WhatsApp logo talks to a woman on her motorbike
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Musk’s vision for free speech on X tested by Israel-Hamas war misinformation

      Platform’s owner contends with wave of false or misleading content that has alarmed EU officials and advertisers

      Elon Musk and the X logo
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Facebook video of Biden prompts probe into Meta content policy

      Investigation will review social media giant’s guidelines after ‘manipulated’ clip wrongfully calls US president a paedophile

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    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      LexElon Musk
      Elon Musk/SEC: fair and efficient markets depend on timely disclosure Premium content

      Entrepreneur may have bigger problem than US regulator’s probe into his purchase of X shares

      Elon Musk attends a meeting in Washington last month
    • Saturday, 7 October, 2023
      The Long ViewJennifer Hughes
      ‘T-bill and chill’ strategy challenges stock investors

      Rise in bond yields means there are more alternatives to betting on the fortunes of the Magnificent Seven tech giants

      Jeffrey Gundlach
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      X Corp
      A primer on Elon Musk’s latest dumb fight with the SEC

      We’ll stop writing these stories when you stop clicking on them

    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Elon Musk
      SEC seeks to force Musk to testify in probe of Twitter stock purchases

      US securities regulator’s court filing signals yet another fight with billionaire

      Elon Musk
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Explainer3 min
      The data security concerns around TikTok | FT Tech

      It’s got a billion active users and it’s the number one search engine in the world - yet its fate hangs in the balance

      FT Tech Time running out for TikTok
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta to charge users in EU for ad-free Instagram and Facebook

      Tech group plans a $14 monthly subscription fee for access via mobile

      Social media apps on a phone, including Instagram
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Nilanjana Roy
      Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and me — was AI right to use our books?

      Many authors are discovering that their writing has been fed into the AI blender — and I am among them

      A smiling man and woman, part of a crowd, hold up banners saying ‘Leave AI to sci-fi’ and ‘The pen is mightier than the algorithm’
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      X Corp
      X signs live shopping deal with Paris Hilton in bid to revive its fortunes

      Celebrity will create four original videos per year and other content for the platform

      Paris Hilton will work with X to create four original video programmes a year as well as other content for other X mediums
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      US Supreme Court to hear cases over free speech and social media

      A decision could help define the legal authority that platforms like Meta and TikTok have to police content

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    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      X Corp
      Linda Yaccarino set to present new plan to long-suffering X bankers

      Social media CEO will meet seven lenders on October 5

      Linda Yacarrino inside X’s offices
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      The AI rush for the iPhone moment

      Companies are throwing whatever new ideas they can think of at the wall to see what sticks for the new technology

      Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      BBC
      BBC overhauls social media rules for presenters after Gary Lineker row

      Star hosts at UK national broadcaster will be banned from party political campaigning or endorsements

      Gary Lineker
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Meta Platforms
      Meta launches AI chatbots for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

      Facebook parent unveils ‘mixed-reality’ Quest 3 headset to rival Apple’s Vision Pro

      Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech at the Meta Connect event
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      TikTok Inc
      Indonesian ban on social media transactions deals TikTok major blow

      Video app can no longer facilitate ecommerce sales on its platform in what had been its largest market

      Zulkifli Hasan, Indonesia’s minister of trade, said the rules, which apply to all social networks, were to ensure fair competition
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Can Linda Yaccarino survive working for Elon Musk?

      Can the chief of the company formerly known as Twitter survive Musk’s chaos and win back advertisers?

    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Commercial property
      Meta pays £149mn to break London office lease

      Facebook owner scales back space as more employees work from home

      Meta’s office at 1 Triton Square
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      FT SeriesThe Henry Mance Interview
      The activist sued by Elon Musk: ‘We have to show we will not be cowed’

      Imran Ahmed uses his Center for Countering Digital Hate to campaign against social media abuses

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