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What happened when Sesame Street's Elmo asked an innocent question?

Elmo takes the world’s temperature... Yep, it’s still burning.

Business

All the Elon Musk controversies we've seen this year

From disinformation to rows with Ukraine, Euronews Business looks at all the controversies that billionaire Elon Musk has been caught up in this year.

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X, formerly Twitter, sees massive outage as thousands report issues

Elon Musk's X suffered one of its biggest outages on Thursday, with users losing access to their posts and timelines.

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Elon Musk urges people in developed countries to have more children

Musk urged Italians and the people of other industrialised countries to have more children "or the culture of Italy, Japan and France will disappear."

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Meta's Threads is finally available to users in the EU

The EU's Digital Markets Act is reportedly the reason why it took five months longer for the platform to launch in Europe.

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Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

The controversial far-right host was previously 'permanently banned' from the platform in 2018 after repeatedly claiming the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.

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Grok, Elon Musk’s 'rebellious' AI chatbot, is being rolled out on X

One of the features of Grok is to "roast" yourself based on your recent posts on X. Here’s what else we know about it.

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'We need to talk, Elon,' says Argentina's president amid Musk support

X owner Elon Musk had previously expressed support for Javier Milei, Argentina's new president, following his election in November.

World News

Europe confronts an increasingly transnational far-right threat

Movements that could once be tackled one government at a time are more and more able to connect with each other across borders – and Elon Musk's Twitter has given them a gift.

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Musk uses expletive to blast advertisers who left X over hate speech

In a deepening crisis for X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk used a swear word in front of an audience when talking about advertisers fleeing the site.

Climate

‘Information crisis’: Four ways climate lies are spreading in 2023

We’re grappling with a climate ‘information crisis’ on X, Facebook and Instagram, disinformation experts say.

Tech News

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo says she's leaving Musk's 'global sewer' X

"I refuse to endorse this evil scheme," Hidalgo said of the social media platform X. She is currently helping Paris gear up for the 2024 Olympics.

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Elon Musk in Israel visit to meet leaders as X antisemitism row grows

Billionaire Elon Musk is visiting Israel on Monday to meet with the country's leaders as accusations mount of antisemitism on X (formerly Twitter).

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Elon Musk's X sues media watchdog group over hate speech row

Media Matters has called the lawsuit "frivolous".

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Advertisers flee Elon Musk's X over antisemitism concerns

Advertisers have voiced concern that their ads are appearing next to pro-Nazi content on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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EU Commission advises services to stop advertising on Elon Musk's X

The social media platform X was formerly called Twitter and was acquired by Elon Musk last year.

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IBM pulls ads from X over placement next to pro-Nazi content

The IT giant pulled the advertisements following a report by the left-leaning non-profit, Media Matters, that showed advert placement next to content promoting Nazi ideology.

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X fails to remove antisemitic and islamophobic hate speech - report

The non-profit organisation analysed 200 examples of reported hate speech on the platform and found that 96 per cent of the posts remained online a week later.

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Elon Musk biopic on the way with Darren Aronofsky set to direct

Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography released this year will serve as a basis for the screenplay of the upcoming Elon Musk film.

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How Twitter has transformed into X under Elon Musk, one year on

Elon Musk’s upheaval of Twitter’s verification system has been just one of a number of controversial changes to the social media platform in a year.