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 “Threads, the Twitter rival launched last Wednesday by Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has achieved 100 million sign-ups,” Marketwatch reports.

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Elon Musk asked for a “literal dick measuring contest” with Mark Zuckerberg as the two tech titans battle over their social media empires.

“For the first time in years, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is riding a wave of good press for going after a competitor,” Axios reports.

“The perfectly-timed launch of Meta’s Twitter copycat app, Threads, is being celebrated as a win by many users who have grown tired of the drama surrounding Twitter under its new owner Elon Musk or who dislike changes Musk has made.”

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Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application, Semafor reports.

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Meta has officially released Threads — a text-based Twitter competitor based on Instagram.

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“A federal judge on Tuesday blocked key Biden administration agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies, in an extraordinary injunction in an ongoing case that could have profound effects on the First Amendment,” the Washington Post reports.

“The injunction came in response to a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who allege that government officials went too far in their efforts to encourage social media companies to address posts that they worried could contribute to vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic or upend elections. The Trump-appointed judge’s move could upend years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.”

“President Biden on Monday is set to announce more than $42 billion to expand high-speed internet access nationwide, commencing the federal push to help an estimated 8.5 million families and small businesses finally take advantage of modern-day connectivity,” the Washington Post report.

New York Times: “What began a few months ago as a slow drip of fund-raising emails and promotional images composed by A.I. for political campaigns has turned into a steady stream of campaign materials created by the technology, rewriting the political playbook for democratic elections around the world.”

“Increasingly, political consultants, election researchers and lawmakers say setting up new guardrails, such as legislation reining in synthetically generated ads, should be an urgent priority.”

The Washington Post has obtained internal Twitter records, including a copy of a Jan. 5, 2021, video call, that show Twitter leaders discouraged the platform’s trust and safety staff members from removing tweets they felt were calls for violence in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.

The video and the other documents, which were collected by the Jan. 6 committee but not released, undermine current Republican efforts in Congress to build a case that the tech companies were “weaponized” against conservative ideas.

Elon Musk announced that the words “cis” and “cisgender” are now “considered slurs” on Twitter.

“Several U.S. federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software,” CNN reports.

“It was not immediately clear if the hackers responsible for breaching the federal agencies were a Russian-speaking ransomware group that has claimed credit for numerous other victims in the hacking campaign.”

“Elon Musk said Monday that Twitter revenue has been cut in half since he took ownership of the company,” the Daily Beast reports.

“More than half of Twitter’s top advertisers suspended ads this winter, but this is the first time Musk has publicly acknowledged the extent of the damage.”

“Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier,” the New York Times reports.

“Twitter’s ad sales staff is concerned that advertisers may be spooked by a rise in hate speech and pornography on the social network, as well as more ads featuring online gambling and marijuana products.”

“In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud, errors or glitches occurred in the 2020 presidential election and other U.S. elections,” Axios reports.

Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, “has resigned from the social media company, which has faced criticism for lax protections against harmful content since billionaire Elon Musk acquired it in October,” Reuters reports.

“An email to Twitter returned an automated reply with a poop emoji.”

“SpaceX’s Starlink, the satellite communications service started by billionaire Elon Musk, now has a Department of Defense contract to buy those satellite services for Ukraine,” Reuters reports.