xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by tsimionescu on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:18AM (#43513228)

Anti-democrat journalists were given extensive access by Musk to internal files at Twitter and the best they could come up with is finding that the Biden campaign was sending emails with links to posts they believed were against Twitter terms of service, and Twitter employees then checked the posts, discussed internally, and usually agreed they should take those down. Some of the examples of tweets taken down by this process by the anti-Biden journalist were investigated by others and found to be pictures of Biden's son naked from his laptop. And the Trump presidency was also sending similar reports doing with the same results.

So the worse that Musk's personally selected journalists could find was a special process that political figures from both parties had where their abuse reports were getting prioritized.

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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by bdangubic on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:23AM (#43513250)

this won’t help with people who comment “did you hear what zuck said…” :)

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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by NitpickLawyer on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:33AM (#43513291)

I'm talking about zuck and meta's products.

edit since I can't reply:

The thread went

> It was state-sponsored media when the Biden administration colluded with Twitter and Facebook to censor Americans. reply

> debunked

> didn't zuck literally say that

...

It's so sad that people want their take to be correct that they can't even follow a thread 2 ideas deep...

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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by Jare on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:49AM (#43513621)

You should probably have clarified this when you originally replied to a comment about X, on a thread about X, on a post about X.

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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by throwawaythekey on Saturday March 29, 2025 @04:40AM (#43513851)

It was a fair bit more than that. From the left-leaning guardian

> The most worrying issue the Twitter Files have exposed is the level of contact between the social media company and state security organisations. The FBI regularly holds meetings with Twitter executives, pressuring them to take action against “misinformation”, even when this amounted to little more than a satirical tweet, and demanding the personal data of users.

Take note of the "pressuring", in line with what was reported by Zuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...

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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by acdha on Saturday March 29, 2025 @09:07AM (#43515229)

I’d recommend reading the source claim. Those “FBI meetings” were an email asking if Twitter would reconsider allowing their commercial data provider to access the bulk firehose feed:

https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1604888013422485505

Whether or not you think that’s reasonable from a surveillance perspective it’s nothing even remotely like the “state-sponsored media” claim.

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