new video loaded: The Web of Companies Owned by Elon Musk In mapping out Elon Musk’s wealth, our investigation found that Mr. Musk is behind more than 90…
Read more Video: The Web of Companies Owned by Elon MuskPhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images After buying Twitter, Elon Musk rebuilt it to his own specifications and preferences. This resulted in an environment we may gently call friendlier…
Read more X Really Is Pulling Users to the RightParis, France — French authorities have asked Elon Musk to appear to answer questions as part of a probe into his social media platform X, the Paris prosecutor’s…
Read more X office in France searched as Paris prosecutor summons Elon Musk for questioningShare French police have raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform, X. The search, conducted on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, marks a major escalation in…
Read more Police raid Elon Musk’s X office in Paris – Tech DigestIndonesia has followed Malaysia and the Philippines in lifting a ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok. The Southeast Asian countries banned Grok after it was used to create a…
Read more Indonesia ‘conditionally’ lifts ban on Grok | TechCrunchNewsom announced he is investigating reports that TikTok is suppressing anti-Trump content days after the platform averted a nationwide ban by finalizing a U.S. ownership deal backed by…
Read more ‘It’s time to investigate’: Newsom slams alleged suppression of anti-Trump TikTok contentWASHINGTON — The killing of a second U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minneapolis is deeply complicating efforts to avert another government shutdown in Washington as Democrats — and some…
Read more Another shutdown likely after ICE killings in Minnesota prompt revolt by DemocratsTop Los Angeles federal prosecutor Bill Essayli faced blistering criticism from gun rights groups, including the NRA, after he posted on X Saturday about the fatal shooting of…
Read more Gun rights groups fiercely criticize top L.A. federal prosecutor for response to Minneapolis shootingVictoria Beckham is having a bittersweet number one! Amid all the drama with her and David Beckham’s son, Brooklyn Beckham, and his wife Nicola Peltz — Posh Spice…
Read more Victoria Beckham Fans React To 23 Year Old Song Hitting Number 1 Amid Brooklyn Beckham Drama! – Perez Hilton[Sketchiest Guy in the World Voice] Hey kid, wanna see the X algorithm? It’s right over here. No really, Elon Musk appears to be partly making good on…
Read more Elon Musk Makes Part of X Algorithm Open Source, Says It ‘Sucks’Say what you will about the social media platform Threads—for instance that its rushed rollout in 2023 felt like a rather cynical ploy by Meta to exploit the…
Read more Threads Is Now Clearly More Popular Than X (in Mobile App Form), Report SaysA report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta’s Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk’s X on mobile devices. While X still dominates…
Read more Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunchShare The UK’s media watchdog has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform, X. Ofcom is examining whether the site failed in its legal duty…
Read more Ofcom launches formal investigation into X over Grok AI deepfakes – Tech DigestShare Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked Elon Musk’s AI chatbot. The two countries are the first in the world to ban Grok following reports that the tool is…
Read more Malaysia and Indonesia ban Musk’s Grok over sexually explicit deepfakes – Tech DigestOver the past few days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors. The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s…
Read more French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes | TechCrunchIndia has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content,…
Read more India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over ‘obscene’ AI content | TechCrunchThe fiery debate about a proposed ballot measure to tax California’s billionaires has sparked some soul-searching across the state. While the idea of a one-time tax on more…
Read more Billionaire tax proposal sparks soul-searching for CaliforniansSocial media in 2025 was absolutely swamped with fakes. AI tools have made it easy for anyone to make fake photos and videos that can fool many people…
Read more Viral Tweets That Were Completely Fake in 2025We can debate the worthiness of Elon Musk’s accomplishments—building up Tesla, hollowing out the government, shooting for Mars—but we can all agree that his insistence on being seen…
Read more Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My CoworkersX recently began rolling out a new feature that seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. Except the data might not…
Read more X’s new About This Account feature is going great | TechCrunch