Are Social Media Websites like Facebook and Twitter becoming too powerful?

[gabe]

What a soap opera

Elon Musk fired most of Twitter's staff and said their talents will be of 'great use elsewhere.' Twitter's now threatening to sue Meta, accusing the company of hiring former employees to create a 'copycat' app.

Elon Musk fired most of Twitter's staff and said their talents will be of 'great use elsewhere.' Twitter's now threatening to sue Meta, accusing the company of hiring former employees to create a 'copycat' app.

Elon Musk fired thousands of Twitter employees shortly after he purchased the company and said their talents will "be of great use elsewhere."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

The social media fratricide between these two fundamentally flawed beings is rather delightful to watch.

AoD

 

[gabe]

Musk explains why he's rebranding Twitter to X:

“Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the everything app. This is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing,” Musk explained in a post Monday night.

Musk explains why he's rebranding Twitter to X: It's not just a name change

Musk plans for X to expand to "add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world."

www.cnbc.com

 

[gabe]

US House passes bill that could lead to total TikTok ban

Bill – with updated language that extends deadline to a year for ByteDance to divest of TikTok – to go before Senate next week

www.theguardian.com

 

[Admiral Beez]

US House passes bill that could lead to total TikTok ban

Bill – with updated language that extends deadline to a year for ByteDance to divest of TikTok – to go before Senate next week

www.theguardian.com

I've never used TikTok. I understand it's popular for both entertainment, books and influencer/ecom, but surely there's nothing special here that some other app can do once TikTok is banned.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91114796/tiktok-ban-instagram-snapchat-youtube-rival-apps-users