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fortune.com
X ordered to pay €550,000 to Irish employee fired for not replying to Elon Musk's yes-or-resign 'extremely hardcore' ultimatum
Olivia Fletcher,Bloomberg
3–4 minutes

Elon Musk’s X has been ordered to pay compensation to a former staff member of its Irish unit in an unfair dismissal case.

The social network platform formerly known as Twitter was ordered to pay out over €550,000 ($602,640) to the former employee, Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission, the state body responsible for adjudicating employment disputes, said on Tuesday. It is the largest sum the agency has ever awarded, according to Irish broadcaster RTE.

Gary Rooney, who held a senior procurement role at the time of his dismissal in December 2022, had been employed by the company since September 2013. The Commission heard that the social media platform maintained that the employee had resigned voluntarily after he failed to tick a box committing to new unspecified working arrangements in an email from the company’s new owner Musk.

Rooney was one of thousands of Twitter employees sent an email by Musk requiring them to pledge to stay with the company, working long hours at “high intensity” during its transformation, or to accept a buyout. Staff were given a day to click “yes” to agree to unspecified employment terms.

The commission rejected X’s argument that Rooney quit voluntarily and ruled that not clicking “yes” in response to the email did not constitute an act of resignation.

“It is not OK for Mr. Musk, or indeed any large company to treat employees in such a manner in this country or jurisdiction. The record award reflects the seriousness and the gravity of the case,” the complainant’s solicitor Barry Kenny told Bloomberg.

It’s one in a string of cases that have sprung up since Musk purchased the platform. Multiple lawsuits have already alleged that Twitter employees didn’t receive their promised severance benefits, while the site has come under more intense scrutiny since he acquired it.

The dispute arose in Dublin after billionaire Musk took ownership of the platform in late 2022. The Irish capital had about 500 employees before the takeover, but has since been impacted by the global staff exodus from the firm.

The WRC in its 73-page ruling stated the emails had been sent “at a time of rapid change in Twitter and in the context of inconsistent, contradictory and confusing communications from the Respondent in connection with the takeover of the Company by Mr. Musk.”

X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The company can lodge an appeal to the Labour Court within 42 days.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/08/14/x ... ultimatum/

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apnews.com
Strategist who ran DeSantis' ill-fated bid is working with Musk to help organize voters for Trump
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
8–10 minutes

Ron DeSantis’ senior political aides were gathered last year at the Florida governor’s campaign headquarters, an office across the street from a Red Lobster on Tallahassee’s north side, planning the announcement of his candidacy for president.

Some wanted the Republican to go a baseball stadium in Tampa, near where he grew up and starred in Little League, for what they hoped would be a photogenic rally with his young family. Campaign manager Generra Peck supported a different idea, according to people familiar with the matter — one she had quietly been working on for weeks with Elon Musk, the then-new owner of the platform still known at the time as Twitter. The people spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose internal deliberations.

DeSantis opted for an audio-only conversation with Musk on Twitter Spaces. Initially drawing interest and curiosity, the call was a disaster. The feed crashed due to technical glitches, creating an inauspicious opening for what would ultimately be DeSantis’ ill-fated campaign.

Peck, who was demoted three months into DeSantis’ candidacy, and Musk are now working together again, this time on a super political action committee, America PAC, dedicated to electing Donald Trump, who beat DeSantis on his way to winning this year’s Republican nomination.

Trump’s campaign is largely leaving paid canvassing and get-out-the-vote efforts to outside groups such as America PAC, relying on new guidance from the Federal Election Commission that allows campaigns to coordinate with outside groups in ways that were previously not allowed. But in doing so, the campaign has outsourced a core function to a coterie of untested groups that operate independently. Indeed, DeSantis’ decision to have an outside group canvass for him was attributed as one of the reasons his presidential bid failed.

The small margins that an effective turnout program can achieve could be especially important in a tight presidential race with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, drawing more enthusiasm than when President Joe Biden was seeking reelection.
America PAC works to identify likely Trump supporters

America PAC has a charge of identifying likely Trump supporters in key states through door-to-door canvassing and digital outreach. It is among a handful of organizations to which Trump’s team has ceded most of the organizational effort, including Turning Point Action and Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Its work — and Musk’s role — have drawn an unusual level of interest.

“America PAC is utilizing the data it collects to register voters and encourage them to vote,” lawyers for the group wrote in an Aug. 7 letter sent to a staffer for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, whose office was cited in an Aug. 4 CNBC story as investigating the group’s efforts. “Admittedly, not all our plans or strategies are public at this time, but any investigation into our efforts will prove premature and imprudent.”

Benson’s office, which released the letter, responded two days later by saying it announced a review “in response to concerns that potential Michigan voters were being misled by an America PAC website into believing they were registering to vote when they were, in fact, not.”

Musk has denied reports that he would fund pro-Trump efforts this year to the tune of $45 million a month. But he has been vocal both in his support of Trump and his boosting of conservative voices on the platform he renamed from Twitter to X.

“The key values of the PAC are supporting a meritocracy & individual freedom,” Musk wrote in a July post. “Republicans are mostly, but not entirely, on the side of merit & freedom.”

A year after Trump repeatedly mocked DeSantis’ botched rollout, he appeared on the same platform this week to speak with Musk. But their call was also plagued by glitches and delayed for 40 minutes, followed by a long conversation in which Trump’s audio often sounded slurred.

“Based on that two-hour X mess, if you get Musk as a client, that’s good, I guess. But if you don’t, you can see how that’s also good,” said Mark Campbell, who managed the winning campaign of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., in 2021. “Because as far as Elon Musk’s foray into politics goes, he’s 0 for 2.”

A spokesman for America PAC declined to comment. Peck did not respond to messages seeking comment.
America PAC brings in DeSantis alumni

In mid-July, America PAC dumped the vendors it had hired for digital strategy, polling, canvassing and advertising. It replaced those vendors with companies linked to Phil Cox, another former DeSantis campaign aide and former executive director of the Republican Governors Association who is a business partner of Peck’s in a firm called P2.

Peck is not the sole leader of the PAC. In addition to Peck and Cox, Dave Rexrode, another top aide on the Youngkin campaign, is also a senior adviser.

People familiar with the matter say Peck — and DeSantis — have cultivated close ties with Musk.

About a month before DeSantis launched his campaign on Twitter Spaces, Peck held a late-night Zoom meeting with Musk, who was overseas, as well as Musk’s friend and fellow tech billionaire David Sacks and pro-DeSantis super PAC chairman Adam Laxalt, about Musk’s interest in contributing to DeSantis’ looming presidential campaign.

After that meeting, Peck told members of DeSantis’ political team that she expected Musk to be the biggest player in the 20-year history of super PACs, groups that can take unlimited sums and advocate for a candidate as long as they do not coordinate with campaigns.

From that point on, Peck guarded Musk carefully, the people familiar with the operations said.

Where typically senior political operatives in contact with major donors hand off those relationships to a campaign’s finance director, Peck did not in Musk’s case, maintaining her role as the single DeSantis campaign conduit to Musk. “It was all her,” one person said.

Likewise, Peck typically did not involve senior advisers to Never Back Down, the super PAC that DeSantis had entrusted with his organizational efforts in early states, to participate in calls with Musk. Though there are rules that bar coordination between campaigns and super PACs, those can be accommodated in conference calls by asking PAC officials to drop off the call during strategy discussions.

Peck kept communications with Musk to herself, to the point that top aides were barred from discussing Musk’s interest in the campaign.

“Nobody was able to talk to engage with the Elon stuff,” the source said. “It was clear during and immediately after the rollout that Generra was the one talking to them, exclusively so.”

Others in DeSantis’ political orbit said there was no need for Musk to be in contact with the Florida governor’s campaign, that the billionaire defies the profile of even the biggest political donors. Those who say Musk wasn’t in touch with key staff could be voicing bitterness that they didn’t have more access to him, they say.
Others question how much America PAC will matter

Ultimately, Musk is not listed in Federal Election Commission records as having donated either to DeSantis’ campaign or Never Back Down.

Peck served as campaign policy director on Youngkin’s campaign. Campbell, the campaign manager then, described Peck as “brilliant in the policy area” but said he wasn’t sure about her experience setting up a canvassing operation.

“If she’s also trying to develop Elon Musk, I’m not sure that’s that different than what a lot of political consultants do, which is put two different sides of their business together, the political and the corporate sides,” Campbell said.

Canvassing and voter outreach are some of the most visible parts of a campaign, even though some strategists say observers put too much importance on the so-called “ground game.” Campbell argued that both candidates — and not outsiders — would determine the fate of the race.

“Anything having to do with Musk is all collateral noise,” he said.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-d ... 2d43c4186a

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X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders

2024-08-17 15:48 - Luana Maria Benedito

Media platform X said on Saturday it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to what it called "censorship orders" by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.

X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, claims Moraes secretly threatened one of the company's legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform.

The social media giant published pictures of a document allegedly signed by Moraes which says a daily fine of 20,000 reais ($3,653) and an arrest decree would be imposed against X representative Rachel Nova Conceicao if the platform did not fully comply to Moraes' orders.

"To protect the safety of our staff, we have made the decision to close our operation in Brazil, effective immediately," X said.

Brazil's Supreme Court, where Moraes has a seat, told Reuters it would not speak on the matter and would not confirm nor deny the authenticity of the document shared by X.

The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, the platform said on Saturday.

Earlier this year, Moraes ordered X to block certain accounts, as he investigates so-called "digital militias" that have been accused of spreading fake news and hate messages during the government of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Moraes opened an inquiry earlier this year into the billionaire after Musk said he would reactivate accounts on X that the judge had ordered blocked. Musk has called the Moraes' decisions regarding X "unconstitutional."

After Musk's challenges, X representatives reversed course and told Brazil's Supreme Court that the social media giant would comply with the legal rulings.

Lawyers representing X in Brazil in April told the Supreme Court that "operational faults" have allowed users who were ordered blocked to stay active on the social media platform, after Moraes had asked X to explain why it allegedly had not fully complied with his decisions.

Musk, in posts on X on Saturday, called Moraes an "utter disgrace to justice" and said the company could not have agreed to the judge's "secret censorship and private information handover demands."

https://neuters.de/technology/x-close-o ... 024-08-17/

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... lon-musk-x

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hs.fi
Elon Musk rinnasti lain­oppineen ”Voldemortiin”, kun Brasilia ja viesti­palvelu X riitaantuivat
Esa Juntunen HS
2–3 minutes

Sosiaalinen media|X:n toiminnot suljettiin Brasiliassa, vaikka itse palveluun pääsee yhä. Taustalla on kiista laitaoikeistolaisista tileistä, jotka paikallinen tuomari haluaa sulkea.

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Tiivistelmä on tekoälyn tekemä ja ihmisen tarkistama.

Sosiaalisen median pikaviestipalvelu X sulkee toimintonsa Brasiliassa.

Maan korkeimman oikeuden tuomari vaati suljettavaksi tilejä, jotka levittivät valeuutisia Bolsonaron valtakaudella.

X:n omistaja Elon Musk hyökkäsi tuomaria vastaan viestipalvelussa.

Sosiaalisen median pikaviestipalvelu X, eli entinen Twitter, sulkee toimintonsa Brasiliassa.

Viestipalvelu väittää, että taustalla ovat maan korkeimman oikeuden tuomarin ”sensurointikäskyt”. X toimii yhä Brasiliassa, mutta ensitietojen mukaan sen henkilökunta lopetti työt.

Asiasta kertovat uutistoimisto Reuters ja Britannian yleisradioyhtiö BBC.

Riitelyn taustalla on tuomari Alexandre de Moraesin esittämät vaatimukset sulkea tiettyjä tilejä palvelusta.

BBC:n mukaan monessa niistä tuetaan maan edellistä presidenttiä, laitaoikeistolaista Jair Bolsonaroa. Tuomarin mukaan tilit levittivät valeuutisia Bolsonaron valtakaudella.

Bolsonaro hävisi vaalit vuonna 2022, mutta hänen kannattajansa eivät nielleet sitä helpolla. He ovat muun muassa mellakoineet pääkaupunki Brasíliassa.

Moraesin väitetään uhanneen X:n paikallisedustajaa 20 000 realin eli noin 3 300 euron päivittäisellä sanktiolla, ellei viestipalvelu noudata vaatimuksia. X vastasi, että se sulkee toimintonsa ”suojellakseen henkilökuntaansa”.

Brasilian korkein oikeus ei kommentoinut asiaa Reutersille.

X:n omistaja, miljardööri Elon Musk, hyökkäsi välittömästi Moraesia vastaan viestipalvelussaan.

Musk kirjoitti lauantaina, että Moraesin ”pitää lähteä”, koska hän itse rikkoo lakia. Sen jälkeen hän julkaisi kuvan, jossa tuomaria verrataan Harry Potter -sarjan pääpahikseen velho Voldemortiin.

Lisäksi hän lausui, että päätös sulkea Brasilian-toimisto oli vaikea. Hän viesti, että Moraesin toiminta on ”laitonta ja salaista sensuuria”.

Moraes, jolla on myös 1,1 miljoonan seuraajan X-tili, ei ole kommentoinut asiaa. Kotimaassaan tuomari on uutistoimisto AFP:n mukaan kiistelty hahmo: toisille hän näyttäytyy demokratian sankarina ja toisille vallan vääränkäyttäjänä.

Musk ja X olivat viimeksi otsikoissa alkuviikosta, kun miljardööri haastatteli palvelussa uudelleen Yhdysvaltain presidentiksi pyrkivää Donald Trumpia.

https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000010638147.html

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theguardian.com
Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
Carole Cadwalladr
6–7 minutes

Just over four years ago, an insurrectionist mob found each other online, descended on Washington, stormed the Capitol and threatened the vice-president with a noose. But that was the good old days. We’re living in a different reality now. One in which the billionaires have been unchained.

Because back in the golden days of 2020, tech platforms, still reeling from a public backlash, had at least to look as if they gave a shit. Twitter employed 4,000-plus people in “trust and safety”, tasked with getting dangerous content off its platform and sniffing out foreign influence operations. Facebook tried to ignore public pressure but eventually banned political ads that sought to “delegitimise voting” and scores of academics and researchers in “election integrity” units worked to identify and flag dangerous disinformation.

But still, vast swathes of the American population became convinced the vote had been stolen and a violent mob almost pulled off a coup. Fast forward four years, and we’re now in a very different – and significantly worse – place.

Because while Kamala Harris is enjoying her hot girl summer and liberal America is sighing with relief, it’s to Britain that the US needs to look. To rioters in the streets and burning cars and contagious, uncontained racism spreading like wildfire across multiple platforms. To lies amplified and spread by algorithms long before the facts have been reported, laundered and whitewashed by politicians and professional media grifters.

Because just as Brexit prefigured Donald Trump’s election in 2016, there are signs that we are again the canary in the coalmine. The same transatlantic patterns, the same playbook, the same figures. But this time with a whole new set of dangerous, unchecked technological vulnerabilities to be exploited.

The streets are – for now – quiet. The violence has been crushed. But this is Britain, where extremist political violence is someone carrying a brick and throwing a chair leg. In America, there aren’t just automatic weapons and rights to openly carry firearms, there are actual militias. Regardless of how well Harris is doing in the polls, America is facing a singularly dangerous moment, whoever wins the election.

Because as Trump has already showed us and as Jair Bolsonaro learned, it’s not even necessarily about winning any more. Or even about a single day. The entire period between the result and the inauguration is an anything-can-happen moment not just for America but for the world.

In Britain, the canary has sung. This summer we have witnessed something new and unprecedented. The billionaire owner of a tech platform publicly confronting an elected leader and using his platform to undermine his authority and incite violence. Britain’s 2024 summer riots were Elon Musk’s trial balloon.

He got away with it. And if you’re not terrified by both the extraordinary supranational power of that and the potential consequences, you should be. If Musk chooses to “predict” a civil war in the States, what will that look like? If he chooses to contest an election result? If he decides that democracy is over-rated? This isn’t sci-fi. It’s literally three months away.

None of this is happening in a vacuum. For a brief minute after 2016, there was an attempt to understand how these tech platforms had been used to spread lies and falsehoods – or mis- and disinformation – as we came to know them and to try to prevent it. But that moment has passed. A years-long effort by Republican operatives to politicise the entire subject of “misinformation” has won. It barely even now exists in US tech circles. Anyone who suggests it does – researchers, academics, “trust and safety” teams – are now all part of the “censorship industrial complex”.

A US congressional committee headed by Republican Jim Jordan, convinced that big tech was silencing conservative voices, went on the warpath. It subpoenaed the email history of dozens of academics and has chilled an entire field of research. Whole university departments have collapsed, including the Stanford Internet Observatory whose election integrity unit provided rapid detection and analysis in 2020.

Even the FBI has been prevented from communicating with tech companies about what officials have warned is a coming onslaught of foreign disinformation and influence operations after a lawsuit brought by two attorneys general went all the way to the supreme court. The New York Times reported that it has only just now quietly resumed.
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All this has provided the perfect cover for the platforms to step back. Twitter, now X, has sacked at least half its trust and safety team. But then so has every tech company we know about. Thousands of workers previously employed to sniff out misinformation have been laid off by Meta, TikTok, Snap and Discord.

Just last week, Facebook killed off one of its last remaining transparency tools, CrowdTangle, a tool that was crucial in understanding what was happening online during the dark days before and after the 2020 inauguration. It did this despite the pleas of researchers and academics, just because it could.

In 2020, these efforts seemed pathetic, paltry, inadequate to the scale of the threat. Now they’re gone, just as the tools are becoming even more dangerous. Last week, OpenAI crowed about finding an Iranian group that used ChatGPT to run a US election influence campaign, which would have been more impressive if the last that was heard from its trust and safety team was when it was dissolved back in May after its co-founders resigned.

But what Musk – the new self-appointed Lord of Misrule – has done is to rip off the mask. He’s shown that you don’t even have to pretend to care. In Musk’s world, trust is mistrust and safety is censorship. His goal is chaos. And it’s coming.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... or-america

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