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Show Notes
Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X
https://www.engadget.com/elon-musk-is-rebranding-twitter-to-x-and-killing-the-bird-logo-165944573.html
Twitter’s rebrand to X could worsen its legal and financial problems
https://www.engadget.com/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-worsen-its-legal-and-financial-problems-233914973.html
Twitter becomes X
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x
“The everything app”: why Elon Musk wants X to be the WeChat of the west
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/29/elon-musk-wechat-twitter-rebranding-everything-app-for-west
Is decentralization the future of social media?
https://www.engadget.com/is-decentralization-the-future-of-social-media-194554192.html
Inside Twitter rival’s Bluesky first major crisis
https://fortune.com/2023/07/31/inside-bluesky-moderation-crisis-investor-pushback-user-backlash-ceo-apology/
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network
Threads adds chronological feed
https://www.engadget.com/threads-adds-a-chronological-feed-as-twitter-burns-to-the-ground-152817251.html
“Attenzione pickpocket” vigilante found to have far-right links
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/italys-attenzione-pickpocket-social-media-monica-poli-found-to-have-far-right-links
A woman on TikTok started talking like a robot for money. Then came the imitators
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/07/25/npc-streaming-trend-robots-orig-js-sc.cnn