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  • Elon Musk's Twitter is caving to government censorship, just like he promised

    1 day ago - By The Verge

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Getty Images
    Tech companies - including Twitter - are following the Indian government's demands to suppress a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As reported by The Intercept and TechCrunch , Twitter and YouTube both locally blocked The Modi Question , which investigates claims of Modi's involvement in India's deadly 2002 Gujarat riots. It's one of Twitter's first tangles with India under the ownership of billionaire Elon Musk, but contrary to some writing , the documentary's ban isn't an example of Musk violating a vocal “free speech...
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  • Tesla's volatile Q4 couldn't dampen its record setting year

    Tesla's volatile Q4 couldn't dampen its record setting year

    1 day ago - By Engadget

    Between its ongoing supply chain constraints, brutal rounds of layoffs and a plummeting stock price , the past year has been a glass case of emotion for Tesla and its embattled CEO, Elon Musk. Still, the company managed to produce nearly 440,000 vehicles and delivered over 405,000 of them - year over year increases of 47 and 40 percent, respectively - Tesla announced on Wednesday during the Q4 2022 earnings call. Those are both records for Tesla, as was the full-year deliveries of 1.31 million. Profits for the year totaled $12.6 billion. The final quarter of 2022 was especially volatile...
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  • Twitter will soon remember which feed you like to browse on

    Twitter will soon remember which feed you like to browse on

    1 day ago - By MobileSyrup

    Twitter has been adamant about pushing its algorithmic Home Feed since Elon Musk took over the company. The 'For You' timeline, which shows your feed as an algorithmic timeline of accounts you follow with other accounts mixed in, rolled out to Anroid last week , while it has been available on iOS and Twitter web for the most part of January.
    However, Twitter users have been pushing back, and the company has been forced to make changes to its platform.
    Currently, all devices Twitter runs on feature two tabs on the homepage - 'For you' and 'Following.' The 'Following' Tab shows your feed in...
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  • Tesla made more money in 2022 than ever before, but its future still looks rocky

    Tesla made more money in 2022 than ever before, but its future still looks rocky

    2 days ago - By The Verge

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
    Amid flagging demand, steep price cuts, and ongoing drama surrounding Elon Musk's stewardship of Twitter, Tesla published its fourth quarter earnings report in which the company said it earned $3.7 billion in net income on $24.3 billion in revenue. That represents a 59 percent increase year over year compared to $2.8 billion in revenue in Q4 2021 .
    It was also Tesla's third year ending in the black, with $14.1 billion in net income for 2022, compared to $5.5 billion in profit in 2021 and a mere $721 million in 2020. Tesla turned that profit on over...
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  • Tesla Is Hurting From Elon Musk's Twitter Meltdowns. The Question Is: How Much? - CNET

    2 days ago - By CNET

    Since Musk took over at Twitter, his spreading of conspiracy theories and his banning of journalists has eroded much of the goodwill toward him - and Tesla.
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  • Tesla's Hurting From Elon Musk's Twitter Meltdowns. The Question Is: How Much? - CNET

    2 days ago - By CNET

    Since taking over at Twitter, Musk's spreading of conspiracies and banning journalists has eroded much of his - and Tesla's - goodwill.
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