Communicating With Elon Musk’s X Is Like Traversing a Scorched Hellscape
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Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism
Alex Gallardo/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology…
Millions of Americans Will Soon Lose Internet Access. That’s a Disaster for Rural Health.
Mother Jones Illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On New Year’s Eve 2021, the federal government launched the Affordable Connectivity Program, which has helped over 20 million American households afford internet access with monthly subsidies of $30 (or up to $75 on some…
Meta Wants to Make it Harder to See Political Content On Threads. What Does that Even Mean?
AP/Jaap Arriens Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this week, Meta decided to create the grandest of Gordian knots for itself when Adam Mosseri, its executive in charge of Instagram and Threads, announced that the company doesn’t want Threads to “proactively amplify political content…
Is It Illegal For the White House to Fight COVID Misinfo? Up to SCOTUS.
Modeling of Omicron strain of the virus (blue) and red blood cells National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 18, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the federal government overstepped its bounds by asking social…
About to Break Down? You Might Be a Cybertruck.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands in front of the damaged Cybertruck after it fails a demonstration of its durability.Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a live delivery event this November, where Elon Musk awkwardly opened the door for about a…