Bluesky is a real alternative to Twitter
As far-right agitators Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson return to the platform, many users are seeking a new social media…
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Elon Musk is a businessman, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of Twitter, and has been estimated to be the world’s richest man. He was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, and after studying at University of Pennsylvania embarked on a career as an entrepreneur, co-founding Zip2, a software company that was bought for $300m in 1999.
Rishi Sunak’s softball interview with Elon Musk was embarrassing to watch
The Prime Minister acted almost as if he was interviewing for a job with the billionaire.
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Elon Musk owns Donald Trump now
The former president has returned to a platform that is little more than a circus.
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Losing Twitter’s block function would be a disaster
Elon Musk’s number-one goal is to make “X” the home of “free speech”, a concept he wrongly equates to harmful…
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Only snobbery can stop Elon Musk
Class prejudice is the last weapon we have against tech titans.
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Elon Musk is trying to silence his critics
X is threatening to sue an anti-hate group – the consequences could be catastrophic.
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The risible origin story of “X”
Elon Musk tried to rebrand a company “X” before – and lost his job.
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Why Elon Musk killed the Twitter bird
The tech billionaire wants “X” to become the centre of the internet.
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Big Tech can’t erase politics from social media
To become a permanent alternative to Twitter, Threads will need to embrace politics.
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Why social media has become tedious
The launch of Twitter rivals should feel exciting – but it no longer does.
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We are heading for social media burnout
With Meta’s Twitter rival Threads comes yet another online profile to maintain. Exhaustion will ensue.
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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and our new age of hyper-masculinity
The embarrassing rise of the “anti-woke” alpha male shows how a crisis of masculinity makes one seek to aggressively perform…
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Whoever wins, we lose
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s cage fight is a neo-feudal nightmare.
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The dark reality of Ron DeSantis’s disastrous campaign launch
It was embarrassing for the Florida governor and Elon Musk. It could be a tragedy for American democracy.
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Can Linda Yaccarino save Twitter?
However competent the new CEO is, the biggest obstacle in her efforts to turn Twitter around will be Elon Musk’s…
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Elon Musk and MrBeast are building sinister company towns
We should be extremely wary of the super-rich building “utopias” for their workers
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Twitter should charge us
Under Elon Musk, the platform is approaching pay up or shut up time.
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Farewell, blue tick
Strangely, I am still breathing without it.
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Elon Musk has laid bare the devil’s bargain we all make with the internet
It really is quite something to realise that you are, effectively, a website’s bait.
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If Elon Musk thinks running Twitter has been painful, he should try using it
The billionaire’s woe-is-me interview with the BBC is fooling no one.
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