- Imran Ahmed told staffers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate to “double down” on probing X despite facing a lawsuit from the company.
- “I’ve never, ever, ever walked away from a fight,” Ahmed told CNBC.
- House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter this week to the CCDH and Ahmed as part of a broader “censorship investigation.”
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- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post on Friday that search and web features will be “coming in the next few weeks.”
- “The community here is on the trajectory I expect to build a vibrant long term app,” he wrote.
- Advertisers and creators have told CNBC that Threads needs additional features to become an important service.
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- Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Vision Fund II filed suit against a former portfolio company, alleging massive fraud by the founding coterie, all of whom were relatives.
- Buzzy social network startup IRL was valued at $1 billion and raised $150 million from SoftBank.
- SoftBank alleged that the founders pumped up user numbers and engagement.
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- TikTok users can now post 1,000-character text-based updates in addition to videos and series of photos.
- Text posts appear similar to Instagram Stories visually: users can add a background color, edit how text appears, and add music and stickers to the post.
- Other users can also engage with the post similar to how they interact with video — by stitching, dueting, and commenting.
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- Twitter owner Elon Musk officially changed the company’s famous bird logo to an “X” on Monday as part of a sweeping rebrand.
- Musk, who acquired the platform for $44 billion late last year, wrote in a post Sunday that the company would soon “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
- As of Monday, the domain X.com directs users to Twitter’s homepage, though Twitter.com also remains live.
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