Twitter

• Governments are confronting the reality of dealing with AI-generated deepfake porn
• What would happen if you could talk directly to the recommendation algorithm? X is about to find out

  Since being bought by Elon Musk, X--formerly Twitter--has seen its main feed algorithm deteriorate. It's been (allegedly) tweaked to push posts from Musk and amplify right-wing views, and many users report a deluge of hate speech and violent videos showing gruesome fights and animal deaths.

  
• X isn’t as ad-hungry as it was before Trump’s re-election, so it’s playing nice with Twitch

  X has come to a deal with Twitch that will remove the Amazon-owned hub from among the defendants in an ad collusion lawsuit.

  
• As X fumbles, Bluesky announces $15 million raise and plans for creator monetization

  Elon Musk's dumpster fire of a site has seen yet another mass exodus this month after introducing two much-hated changes: first, it's nuking the block feature by allowing users you've blocked to see your posts anyway, for some reason; and second, it changed its TOS so all material uploaded to X—videos, posts, photos, art, writing samples, anything—is now automatically licensed "for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type."

  
• Advertisers don’t want to give X money, so it’s finding another way to pay creators
• X might be making its own video app for smart TVs
• X is introducing its own version of YouTube Select
• Paris Hilton just signed a 2-year content deal with X
• Twitter says its first creator payouts total $5 million
• Elon Musk says Twitter is now sharing revenue with creators. How does that work? No one knows.
• Twitter’s new policy will kill beloved content bots
• Twitter’s new view counts show the gap between eyeballs and engagement