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  • Elon Musk Pivots to Pizzagate as Advertisers Flee

    Elon Musk Pivots to Pizzagate as Advertisers Flee

    If Elon Musk is actively trying to drive advertisers away from his floundering social media site X, then he’s doing a really fantastic job of it. Fresh off spurring a maelstrom of criticism over a tweet that was broadly decried as antisemitic (and which led to an outflux of advertisers), Musk has now decided to…


  • YouTube Cracks Down on Cancer Quacks

    YouTube Cracks Down on Cancer Quacks

    YouTube announced it’s taking on the miracle cures, bogus disease prevention tips, and other health myths that litter the video-sharing site with a new assault on medical misinformation. The effort starts with a mass take-down of videos about “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures, according to a Tuesday press release from the company. It’s a move…


  • How the Facebook Papers Exposed Meta’s Moderation Disaster

    How the Facebook Papers Exposed Meta’s Moderation Disaster

    In Gizmodo’s third release of documents from the Facebook Papers, we learned how decisions at Facebook over whether to improve a product can depend on how many conservatives in the press are likely to get pissed. We also learned that when Facebook claimed it wasn’t doing something, it was doing exactly that. Here’s a broader look…