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Musk and Twitter are stuck in a stupid stalemate about bots So how many bots are there on Twitter? Elon, Twitter, and robots Last week, Musk saidthe Twitter acquisition deal is on holduntil the company can prove that less than 5% of its users are bots. This was in response to the company’s SEC filing, which cited the figure. Since the Tesla CEO first showed interest in acquiring the company in April, removing spam bots has been his key transformation point for the platform....

Musk claims his Neuralink brain chip could ‘cure’ tinnitus — but don’t hold your breath He also promised self-driving cars in 2019 and we all know how that worked out What is Neuralink? The coin-sized Neuralink device, called a Link, isimplantedflush with the skull by a precision surgical robot. The robot connects a thousand miniature threads from the Link to certain neurons. Each thread is a quarter the diameter of a human hair....

Musk claims moderation stifles free speech on Twitter. He’s wrong Research shows content rules help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation Political bias Manyconservative politiciansandpunditshaveallegedfor yearsthat major social media platforms, including Twitter, have aliberal political biasamounting tocensorship of conservative opinions. These claims are based on anecdotal evidence. For example, many partisans whose tweets were labeled as misleading and downranked, or whose accounts were suspended for violating the platform’s terms of service, claim that Twitter targeted them because of their political views....

Musk says Twitter is a digital town square — but unfettered free speech is a fantasy Does it make sense to think of Twitter as a town square? What is a town square for? As my coauthor Nancy Baym and I have detailed in our bookTwitter: A Biography, Twitter’s culture emerged from the interactions between a fledgling platform with shaky infrastructure, an avid community of users who made it work for them, and the media who found in it an endless source of news and other content....

Musk’s tragedy: I ‘hate’ being Tesla’s CEO but the company will ‘die’ without me Musk is standing trial for the $2.6B all-stock deal with SolarCity Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. She covers the full spectrum of the European tech ecosystem, with a particular interest in startups, sustainabili(show all)Ioanna is a writer at TNW. She covers the full spectrum of the European tech ecosystem, with a particular interest in startups, sustainability, green tech, AI, and EU policy....