Twitter is struggling to wrestle the beast of human speech into a box that makes any sense whatsoever. There's this account called Elan's Jets, which automatically posts where Elon's private jet is based on public data from transponder in all airplanes. And then it's not yet clear whether as a direct consequence of the publication of the jet location information or coincidental to that, some stalker did track him down while he was out in California with his son and jumped on the bonnet of his car. So some big back and forth on policy, some new turns.
Elon Musk may be stepping down as chief executive, but he has already changed the firm’s fortunes—and shown that social media’s free-speech struggle is far from over. A bit of fried dough in Kenya reveals how cost-of-living concerns in Africa manifest as shrinkflation. And why members of South Korea’s pop behemoth BTS are headed into the armed forces.
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