NEWS: 𝕏/Twitter is threatening legal action against the campaign group Center for Countering Digital Hate, over what it says are the group's false claims of rising hate speech on the platform.
In response, the group has accused X Corp of intimidation and said the threat is an… https://t.co/goiOiNkYcttwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The letter by Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro accused the group of making "“inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter”. X Corp is considering whether the CCDH may be liable under the Lanham Act.
The CCDH's lawyer responded: "Simply put, there is no bona fide legal grievance here. Your effort to wield that threat anyway, on a law firm’s letterhead, is a transparent attempt to silence honest criticism. Obviously, such conduct could hardly… https://t.co/TN81dRsYEVtheguardian.com/technology/202… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
in 2020, conservative commentator Katie Hopkins was suspended from Twitter following a meeting by the CCDH with Twitter executives, in which the group called for a review of her account
NEWS: San Francisco police interrupted the dismantling of the iconic Twitter sign, but concluded that no crime was committed
San Francisco Police Department said at approximately 12:39 P.M., officers assigned to Tenderloin Station responded to Twitter HQ regarding a report of a possible unpermitted street closure
“Through their investigation officers were able to determine that no crime was committed, and this incident was not a police matter,” an SFPD spokesperson wrote.
NEWS: xAI is passionate about releasing tools and products to the public as early as possible, and wants these tools to help people understand the universe, the @xAI team has announced on Twitter Spaces.
Elon: goal of xAI is to build a 'good AGI'.
Best way is to build an AI that is maximally curious and interested in humanity.
Elon: Questions for xAI to answer - the nature of gravity, Fermi paradox (where are the aliens?). To call something AGI it will need to solve atleast one fundamental problem.
Greg Yang adds the AI could give another perspective to existing theories aswell.
NEWS: Twitter has filed a lawsuit against 4 entitities located in Dallas, Texas, accusing them of scraping large amounts of data.
"These requests have severely burdened X Corp’s servers. and degraded the user experience for millions of X Corp.’s customers,” the suit says.
The volume of automated logging requests from the four defendants, the lawsuit alleges, far exceeds what any person can send to an individual, and shows that the requests were aimed at scrubbing data from Twitter.
NEWS: Twitter has sued Watchell, the law firm that represented the company in the Delaware case that sought to force Elon to complete his purchase.
"“Wachtell exploited a corporate client left unprotected by lame duck fiduciaries", Twitter said in a statement.
Twitter is accusing Wachell of breaching its fiduciary duty ("fiducaries who had lost their motivation to act in Twitter’s best interest pending its imminent sale to Elon Musk") and seeking restitution for a $90 million payment.
NEWS: More than 75% of Twitter's top 100 advertisers have now returned to spending on Twitter!
The Twitter team continues to make progress here. In November around half of the top 100 paused advertising, and the WSJ reported that in Q1 of this year 37 of the 100 stayed away.
Measurements by Twitter's partners has also found that over 99% of ad placements are next to content deemed brand-safe by industry standards.