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- Kanye West
Kanye West deletes X account after Swift, antisemitic rants
Ye’s account has been deleted following days of controversy.
- Thomas Seal
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PSA: You don’t need a professional photo shoot for every occasion
The ones that I find most irritating are the family photographs. They are always the same.
- Mali Waugh
SEN boss’s Nazi image claim ‘disappointing’, says Lalor
Peter Lalor has described SEN chief Craig Hutchison’s references to the journalist’s reposting of memes featuring “Nazi-related imagery” in explaining his axing from the station as “misleading” and “disappointing”.
- Andrew Wu
- Opinion
- Billionaires
Musk v Altman: Watch the billionaires’ faux fight for humanity
If billionaire biffo is your entertainment weakness, the latest outbreak in the war between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman will have you glued to your X feed.
- Elizabeth Knight
On USAID criticism, Republican views converge with Kremlin propaganda
The dismantling of the agency has been accompanied by a torrent of anger online from right-wing influencers and accounts promoting false claims and conspiratorial thinking.
- Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson
‘Don’t mess with DOGE’: Musk uses X as weapon in cost-cutting crusade
As Elon Musk slashes US government spending, he has a tool no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own social media platform to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone standing in his way.
- Kate Conger
Australian neo-Nazis suspended from X
White supremacists Thomas Sewell and Blair Cottrell had their accounts suspended on Tuesday, two days after this masthead reported neo-Nazism was thriving on the platform.
- Paul Sakkal
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- Australian cricket
‘Standing up for the people of Gaza is not antisemitic’: Usman backs dumped cricket journalist
Cricket reporter Peter Lalor has received support from the Australian opener Usman Khawaja after the journalist was told he could not cover cricket for SEN any more due to his social media support of Palestinians.
- Daniel Brettig and Tom Decent
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- Extremism
Musk’s X enables Australia’s neo-Nazis, warn Coalition and online watchdog
White supremacists and leaders of Australia’s National Socialist Network (NSN) were previously banned or censored on X before returning in the past year or so.
- Paul Sakkal
‘Knife-at-your-throat feeling’: How Elon Musk is shaking up Washington
The world’s richest person has brought the same tactics used in his takeover of Twitter to the US government
- Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
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