Our polluted information environment is creating an absolute blowtorch of lies being spread by the richest man in the world on the platform he owns to spread them and the incoming president of the United States,

The world’s richest man claims he’s playing the game at the highest level. But that’s only true if you have no idea what’s going on.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is preparing to host a live-streamed chat on his social media platform X with a leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.

Having established power over Republican politics in the US, the industrialist is now intervening in European politics—and is himself becoming a leader of the international far right.

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Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

Musk tested the boundaries of foreign election interference, hosting AfD co-leader Alice Weidel for a livestream interview on his X social media platform.

Musk said in a social media post “DEI means people DIE” without elaborating on how diversity commitments would impede the Los Angeles Fire Department’s ability to fight fires.

The change under consideration, which Musk says is for aesthetics, would remove vital information from the X timeline and potentially exacerbate the site's issues with misinformation.