Ross Nordeen, the last remaining cofounder at xAI, left the company on Friday; Nordeen reported directly to Elon Musk as his right-hand operator

https://lemmy.world/post/44888945

Jane Fonda led a Kennedy Center rally Friday with ~100 invited guests, including journalists Jim Acosta and Joy Reid, to protest free speech threats under Trump

https://lemmy.world/post/44888850

At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted “Trump is winning”, citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others

https://lemmy.world/post/44888780

The Trump administration launches the White House app, promising news “straight from the source, no filter”, with news, live, social, and gallery sections

https://lemmy.world/post/44844875

A look at Clickout, which has bought hundreds of websites to harvest their reputations and pack them with casino links; in 2024, it had ~$46M in revenue

https://lemmy.world/post/44844820

A profile of Fortune editor Nick Lichtenberg, who uses AI to research and write articles; AI-assisted stories made up ~20% of Fortune's web traffic in H2 2025

https://lemmy.world/post/44844732

A federal judge has approved a class-action privacy settlement requiring Google to offer a new control that gives users the ability to limit the information transmitted about them in real-time bidding

https://lemmy.world/post/44844584

The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs

https://lemmy.world/post/44843667

UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough

https://lemmy.world/post/44843484

Influencers promoting prescription drugs on social media pose public health risks

https://lemmy.world/post/44843270