Elon Musk has voiced his love for video games like Elden Ring in the past. But there’s one extremely popular game that Musk isn’t a fan of: Grand Theft Auto. “Tried, but didn’t like doing crime,” Musk said in a reply to an X employee who said they had never played a GTA game before.…

It’s been over a decade since the last Grand Theft Auto game came out so the Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023 trailer release date for GTA 6 was a big deal. That is, until an anonymous leaker dropped the trailer on Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, a day early. Being that the leaked trailer…

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Walmart decided to stop advertising on Elon Musk’s X, joining a slew of other major companies that have fled the social media platform in recent weeks. “We aren’t advertising on X as we’ve found other platforms to better reach our customers,” a Walmart spokesperson told Reuters, which…

When Elon Musk took over X, formerly known as Twitter, one of his first moves was to overhaul the company’s content moderation policies. When it comes to misinformation, Musk depends on X’s users to deal with the problem in the form of Community Notes, a program that allows approved users to add context to posts…

Gary Barker believes parents are inadvertently ceding too much ground to digital culture influencers who may not have their sons’ best interests at heart. As the president and CEO of the nonprofit think tank Equimundo, which promotes gender equality, Barker spends much of his time thinking about this problem. Some of what young boys encounter…

When Drake released For All The Dogs in October, it was clear that the multi-time Grammy winner was choosing “homies over hoes.” The album — a critical dud — was viewed by critics and fans alike as Drake’s mediocre attempt at courting the Andrew Tate alpha male crowd. Yet what came out of an album…

Elon Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy — and a report showing big brands’ ads on pro-Nazi content — has resulted in lost ad revenue dollars for X from Apple, Disney, and now celebrity socialite Paris Hilton. Just last month, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced a partnership with Hilton. According to Yaccarino, Hilton and her…

Apple. Disney. IBM. NBCUniversal. Sony. These are just some of the big companies that have suspended their advertising campaigns on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, over the past few days. Since then, numerous right-wing media companies and influencers have come together and pledged support for Elon Musk, promising to advertise on X in…

Elon Musk’s most recent endorsement of a far-right conspiracy theory may have caused the biggest blow to the social media company yet. Apple announced on Friday that it is suspending ads on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to a new report from Axios.  What does this mean for X? This is a…

X rival and social media platform Bluesky now boasts over 2 million users, as announced by the team on Thursday. A year after its creation, the Jack Dorsey-backed app marked the milestone while detailing its pending plan of creating a “a truly open social network” — and adding a major feature from Twitter. Bluesky, a…