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My Word: Dangerous global gambling games - opinion

Prediction markets claim to reveal the future, but when wars, elections, and disasters are used for gambling, the consequences can be dangerous.

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An antisemitism hashtag, illustrating online antisemitic hate speech.

Online antisemitism grows smarter, faster, and harder to stop, CyberWell report shows

 The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites is seen over Sebastian Inlet after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 26, 2025.

SpaceX acquires xAI for $250 billions, positioning itself for potential IPO worth $1.5 trillion

An illustration of Elon Musk and the Grok logo.

French police raid X offices as prosecutors summon Elon Musk for questioning


The Deep Dive: Assassination conspiracy, Muslim Brotherhood, and regional flare-ups - podcast

On this week’s episode of “The Deep Dive,” Jacob Laznik tackles a whirlwind of headline-grabbing developments, from Gaza to Tel Aviv to Washington, D.C.

Episode three of The Deep Dive discusses mass conspiracy on X, Trump desginating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and whether Israel is going back to war in the North.

X location feature is a wake-up call about the media landscape - analysis

X’s new location tool reveals the global origins of fake accounts, shaking trust in social media.

(Illustrative) A bugged X login screen.

X location feature reveals origin of anti-Israel, antisemitic, and Gaza scam accounts

Concerns have been raised by some X users about the presence of foreign actors involving themselves in political movements, either for manipulation or monetization.

 A visual illustration depicts a phone with X/Twitter open with a Palestinian flag in the background.

Paris prosecutors investigate Musk’s Grok AI over antisemitic, Holocaust denial posts - POLITICO

French prosecutors have launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok AI after it published alleged antisemitic and Holocaust denial comments, following complaints filed by human rights groups.

An illustration of Elon Musk and the Grok logo.

X is down for thousands of users in US according to Downdetector

There were more than 19,500 reports of issues with the social media platform, as of 10:51 a.m. ET, according to specialized Downdetector.

 'X' logo is seen on the top of the headquarters of the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 30, 2023.

Cloudflare, Amazon, Meta: The biggest tech outages of recent years - explainer

This was the second major internet disruption of 2025, following the October malfunction of Amazon's cloud services unit, AWS.

A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company's house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025.

Cloudflare outage cuts access to X, ChatGPT and other web platforms for thousands

A major, widespread outage impacting Cloudflare's Global Network is reportedly causing downtime for X (Twitter) and other platforms, affecting thousands of users across the US.

Person holding mobile phone with logo of American ICT company Cloudflare (illustrative)

'Jews run society, women need to shut up': MAGA supporters clash over Nick Fuentes's extremism

Fuentes’s online rehabilitation began when Musk reinstated his account on X/Twitter in May.

NICK FUENTES told Tucker Carlson (right) that ‘organized Jewry’ represents the ‘big challenge’ to American unity, and he invoked ‘blood-and-soil’ to describe Zionism, the terminology that underpinned Nazi Germany, says the writer.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry names two UNRWA employees as Hamas terrorists, citing new evidence

Madhoun’s supposed ID card named him as “Director of UNRWA Operations, Gaza.”

Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against job cuts by UNRWA, in Gaza City September 19, 2018.

'Full Nazi clown mode': Yair Netanyahu, Piers Morgan trade barbs over BBC Gaza report

Netanyahu responded sharply, calling the BBC's reporting “medieval-style blood libel” and accusing Morgan of bias. “You guys went full Nazi Mode. I hope Qatar is paying well,” he wrote.

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018, where he testified in a NIS 140,000 libel suit he filed last year against Abie Binyamin, a social activist.