US President Trump’s war escalation warning pushes Asian stocks down aand oil prices sharply higher
rump again urged US allies to “build up some delayed courage” and take the lead in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting Washington may end the US-Israeli war with Iran without reopening the crucial global energy waterway, whose prolonged closure has fuelled a global energy shock and sent oil and gas prices sharply higher.
Meta-terrorism: When the algorithm fails you, social media platforms are quick to punish you ‘for being a victim’
Meta’s customer service apparatus effectively does not exist for the non-elite user. There is no direct phone number. No accountable human being. No real-time support. No escalation pathway that actually works.
Elon Musk’s X under fire for turning AI chatbot Grok that generates sexualised images of women and children into premium service
The apparent change comes after days of growing outrage against and scrutiny of Musk’s X and xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot. The companies face an increasing number of investigations from regulators around the world over the creation of non-consensual explicit imagery and alleged sexual images of children.
Trump advised to deport ‘illegal alien’ Musk as row with world’s powerful and wealthiest man threatens US defence systems
Bannon urged the president to immediately invoke the Defence Production Act to take control of Musk’s rocket company in response to the billionaire entrepreneur’s declaration that he would decommission the SpaceX craft used to shuttle astronauts back and forth from the International Space Station (ISS).
Revenue starved Elon Musk’s X goes after advertisers over alleged ‘massive advertiser boycott’
In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
