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U.S. President Donald Trump at the Oval Office in Washington

Trump Rescinds Biden’s Executive Order on AI Safety in Attempt To Diverge From His Predecessor

His campaign platform described it as imposing “Radical Leftwing ideas on the development of this technology,” tying it to broader concerns about ”woke AI” chatbots reflecting liberal biases.

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Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

Meta Replaces Fact-Checking With X-Style Community Notes

The company said it plans to allow “more speech” by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion such as immigration and gender.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures during a conversation at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles

Musk Offers Voters $1 Million a Day to Sign PAC Petition. Is That Legal?

The giveaway is raising questions and alarms among some election experts who say it is a violation of the law to link a cash handout to voter registration.

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Republican presidential nominee Trump returns to the site of the July assassination attempt against him, in Butler

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Appeal From Elon Musk’s X Platform Over Warrant in Trump Case

The company says a nondisclosure order that blocked it from telling Trump about the warrant obtained by special counsel Jack Smith’s team violated its First Amendment rights.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures during a conversation at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles

Supreme Court Rejects Musk Appeal Over Social Posts That Must Be Approved by Tesla

Musk, who acquired Twitter in 2022, complained that the requirement amounts to “prior restraint” on his speech in violation of the First Amendment.

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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit by Musk’s X Against Nonprofit Researchers Tracking Hate Speech

U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer dismissed the suit, writing in his order that it was “unabashedly and vociferously about one thing” — punishing the nonprofit for its speech.

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Musk’s X Asks Judge To Penalize Researchers Tracking Rise of Hate Speech on Platform

The social media platform sued the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate for documenting the increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased by Elon Musk.

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Infowars host Alex Jones testifies during his defamation trial in Austin, Texas, Aug. 2, 2022

Elon Musk Restores X Account of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones

It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, who have fled X, formerly Twitter, over concerns about hate speech appearing alongside their ads.

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