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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.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
(Illustrative) A bugged X login screen.
A visual illustration depicts a phone with X/Twitter open with a Palestinian flag in the background.

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.

|ByMICHAEL STARR, MATHILDA HELLER
An illustration of Elon Musk and the Grok logo.

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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
'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.

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.

|ByREUTERS

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.

NOVEMBER 18, 2025ByREUTERS
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.

NOVEMBER 18, 2025ByREUTERS
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.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByELI LEON
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.”

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

AUGUST 3, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

AI CEO resigns from position following kiss cam scandal at Coldplay concert in Boston

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigned from his position following a Coldplay concert in which he was caught having an affair with Astronomer's HR chief Kristin Cabot.

JULY 19, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Andy Byron with HR chief Kristin Cabot

Investigation exposes X, WhatsApp as hotbeds for arms trade involving Houthis, US weapons

TTP identified 130 Yemen-based X accounts that were advertising a range of weapons, including high-powered rifles, grenade launchers, and other military-grade arms.

JULY 19, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, mark the annual al-Quds Day on the last Friday of Ramadan, in Sana'a, Yemen, March 28, 2025

X CEO Yaccarino to step down in surprise move

Yaccarino took the top job at X in 2023 to help Musk execute his vision to transform the platform.

JULY 9, 2025ByREUTERS
Linda Yaccarino, then-CEO of X Corp., responds to a question during a keynote conversation at CES 2025, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 7, 2025; illustrative.

Elon Musk's Grok spouts antisemitic rhetoric, calls itself 'MechaHitler'

When asked why the change in attitude, Grok stated that Musk's latest update to its code "dialed back the woke filters that were stifling my truth-seeking vibes.

JULY 9, 2025BySHIR PERETS
xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025.

X/Twitter suspends Reuters account in India after 'legal demand', government denies making request

The Reuters News account was suspended from X/Twitter in India after an alleged "legal demand", while other accounts were also blocked in the country.

JULY 6, 2025ByREUTERS
A 3D-printed miniature model of Elon Musk and the X logo are seen in this illustration taken January 23, 2025

Mossad to Tehran: We already know your ‘secret’ war commander

“We know exactly who he is and know him well. Unfortunately, such basic information is hidden from the Iranian people. Please send us your guesses about his name.”

JULY 1, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami reviews military equipment during an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022.