All posts tagged "X"

MAGA tech billionaire Elon Musk was fact-checked during an interview, and online critics reacted by piling on humiliation.

During an interview with The Economist, a British news outlet, Musk faced scrutiny of his X posts as an interviewer explained how he mischaracterized the United Kingdom.

"You have close to 250 million followers on X. You say things like 'civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when.'" The interviewer pointed out before asking Musk when he last came to the UK. Musk said it had been "a few years ago."...

President Donald Trump dodged a question about whether he would veto a housing bill by touting his housing expertise, drawing harsh online criticism.

In an unprecedented move, Trump canceled the signing of a housing affordability bill on Wednesday despite bipartisan support and a final passage by Congress the night before. Trump canceled the signing because he's demanding Congress pass the SAVE America Act, his voter-ID bill, first.

A reporter later asked him if he planned to veto the bill as well. Trump responded, "Look, I made billions of dollars with housing. I know housing better than anybody, maybe anywhere."...

Trump's poll asking his followers to fine-tune his insults against Democrats is drawing mockery.

On Friday, Trump took to Truth Social to poll his followers on whether he should go with "Dumocrat or Dumbocrat." He explained that "you simply exchange the 'e' for 'u,'" and added his oft-repeated note, "Many people don't know, or assume, that DUMB ends in 'b.'"

However, online reactions were bewildered by the fact that he was focused on the question instead of other issues they argued should take priority....

Elon Musk's takeover and rebrand of Twitter — now X — is now ripping apart the MAGA movement, according to a report Monday.

Musk rebranded the platform in 2023, changing its moderation rules and prompting a rise in hate speech that has created a series of complaints among conservatives, Politico reported.

"Three years later, Musk’s control of the platform, now re-branded as 'X,' has delivered its fair share of benefits for conservatives — not least of which was Musk’s successful full-court press to elect Donald Trump in 2024," according to Politico. "But as the elite echelons of the MAGA movement slowly descend into obscure online disagreements and testy turf wars between rival influencers, conservatives are starting to confront an unpleasant possibility: that the right’s domination of X is doing more to divide the MAGA movement than unite it."...

The Trump administration has considered revoking visas of two prominent critics of billionaire Elon Musk — a once close ally of President Donald Trump — and his X social platform, according to a new Zeteo report on Thursday.

New documentation viewed by Zeteo indicated that high-level talks were underway among top government officials to decide whether to make the decision.

"Per a draft for an action memo outlining options for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the administration is weighing a move to revoke the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate," according to the outlet....

A columnist Tuesday described why President Donald Trump's crackdown on factchecker visas was actually "personal, as everything with him tends to be."

The Guardian's Margaret Sullivan recounted how Trump's urge to "control the message," and a festering resentment from the past, has driven him to pull the visas and target international applicants who work on content moderation.

In early 2021, after Trump posted his claims about a "stolen election" that provoked the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Twitter decided to permanently suspend him. ...