ALT Screenshot of Financial Times headline: Elon Musk gave biographer top Ukrainian official’s private messages without permission
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ALT Screenshot of headline from linked article: Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.
ALT Screenshot of Slate headline: Twitter Was for News. Elon Musk keeps finding inventive ways to ruin the one thing his social network was great for.
ALT Screenshot of one of many tweets now using new headline free tweets to make up fake headlines about Musk. This one says he died in an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident.
ALT Screenshot of tweet that reads, "Elon Musk endorses Joe Biden for re-election" and an image from a fortune.com article. There's a community note underneath explaining that the linked news story doesn't say that and that the tweet is satire pointing out the flaws in the new no-headline implementation.
ALT Screenshot from linked article: Elon Musk gave his biographer private messages from a top Ukraine official without seeking permission, revealing exchanges over the entrepreneur restricting the Starlink internet service to thwart Kyiv’s military. Ukrainian deputy prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov told the Financial Times on Friday that he was unaware that Walter Isaacson had obtained and published the messages in a forthcoming biography of Musk written with the billionaire’s full collaboration. “It’s not very pretty,” Fedorov said in an interview in his office in Kyiv. “I’ve never shown or talked about our correspondence publicly.”
ALT Screenshot from linked article: Isaacson relates in his book how Musk intervened to cut Ukrainian military access for Starlink close to Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces in late September. The intervention scuppered a secret Ukrainian naval drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol, in occupied Crimea. Musk defended the temporary cut in Starlink access for some Ukrainian forces with a post on his X social media platform on Thursday, hours before the Washington Post published Isaacson’s excerpt. “There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor,” he wrote. “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”