- Analysis
- Social media
‘MechaHitler’: Why Elon Musk’s chatbot is at the centre of an Australian legal dispute
Elon Musk’s X and Australia’s online safety watchdog are back in court. Here’s what to know.
- David Swan
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Elmo’s X account gets hacked, posts antisemitic and racist messages
Sesame Workshop described the messages as “disgusting”, and said the red Muppet’s account had since been secured.
Linda Yaccarino, CEO of Elon Musk’s X, resigns after two years at the helm
The veteran ad executive’s future at company became unclear this year after Musk merged the social media platform with his artificial intelligence company, xAI.
- Matt O'Brien
Elon Musk’s X wins ‘free speech’ fight against eSafety Commissioner
A court has overruled the eSafety Commissioner’s order to Elon Musk to remove a post on his app X, which attacked an Australian trans rights activist.
- Alexander Darling and Erin Pearson
- Opinion
- ABC
I loved confronting the left-wing mob on the Q+A panel. I’ll miss it dearly
It wasn’t Q+A’s makers who killed the show; it was the online group think and outrage that attempted to silence any voices of dissent.
- Parnell Palme McGuinness
Master of outrage: The ‘nobody’ who became a leading right-wing influencer
Dominick McGee was walking into the White House in April and couldn’t believe his luck.
- Stuart A. Thompson
The one Musk business that’s winning from the Trump bust-up
The war of words between the US president and the world’s richest man has been playing out in real time, and there’s one place where people are tuning in to catch the soap opera.
- Barbara Ortutay
Musk used X to boost Trump. Now he’s wielding it against him
On Thursday, as the two men publicly fought in a flurry of furious online posts, Musk revealed X to be a double-edged sword.
- Will Oremus
Bromance over: Musk says Trump should be impeached in social media brawl
The US president suggested the Tesla chief is suffering “Trump derangement syndrome”. The tech billionaire said that “without me, Trump would have lost”.
- Michael Koziol
Fake Niki Savva account hastily rebadges itself after CBD reveals identity theft
The political journalist had trouble convincing Elon Musk’s Twitter that she didn’t even have a social media account.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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