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Musk After Meeting Modi

‘I Am A Fan…,” Musk After Meeting Modi

By LokMarg

Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk on Tuesday (local time) met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a four-day State visit to the US and said that he is a fan of him and was honoured to meet him.

Speaking on PM Modi’s leadership role in making technology inclusive so that digital infrastructure can be created, he said, “I can say he really wants to do the right thing for India. He wants to be open, he wants to be supportive of new companies, obviously, but at the same time, make sure it accrues to India’s advantage, which is obviously that’s the job I’m saying. I am a fan of Modi,” to ANI.
In response to PM Modi’s tweet regarding his meeting with business leaders in the US, Musk tweeted, “It was an honor to meet again.”

“In the USA, I will also get the opportunity to meet business leaders, interact with the Indian community and meet thought leaders from different walks of life. We seek to deepen India-USA ties in key sectors like trade, commerce, innovation, technology and other such areas,” tweeted PM Modi.

He also divulged plans to visit India anytime soon. On being questioned over did PM Modi extended an invitation to him, he said, “He did. And yes, I’m tentatively planning to visit India again next year. I’m looking forward.”

Notably, this is the first meeting between PM Modi and Musk after he became the owner of Twitter. PM Modi earlier met Musk in 2015 during a visit to Tesla Motors factory in California.

“Well, I’m actually incredibly excited about the future of India. I think India has more promise than any large country in the world,” told Musk to ANI.

Speaking about the takeaways from the meeting, Musk said that PM Modi really cares about India because he is pushing them to make significant investments in India, which is something that they intend to do and are just trying to figure out the right timing.

Earlier, during an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Musk was asked if the automaker was interested in the Indian market. “Absolutely,” he replied.

He added that Tesla will likely finalise a location to set up its India factory by the end of this year.

“It was a fantastic meeting with the Prime Minister and I like him quite a lot. He visited our Tesla Fremont Factory several years ago, and so we’ve now known each other for a while, said Musk after meeting PM Modi today.

Speaking about future plans and investment in India, he said, “Yeah, well, I think there’s a tremendous amount of potential for all three pillars of the sustainable energy future. The three pillars are sustainable energy generation through solar and wind, primarily. And obviously, India is great for solar. And the amount of land area you actually need to generate enough electricity to power India is very small. I believe it’d be probably one or 2 per cent of the land area of India. So it’s very doable. And then you need to pair that with stationary battery packs because the sun doesn’t shine at night. And then you need electric vehicles, and then you have a sustainable energy future. And I think the interesting thing people will find is that this is a lower cost way to go as well.”

Musk also said that he is looking forward to bringing Starlink to India as well.

“The Starlink Internet, which I think can be incredibly helpful for sort of remote or rural villages where they perhaps either may have no access to the Internet or the Internet is very expensive and slow,” he said.

Notably, his meeting comes days after former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey alleged that the BJP-led central government threatened to shut down Twitter in India and have its employees raided at the height of the farmers’ protest in 2020.

PM Modi will be meeting over two dozen thought leaders from various fields after he lands in New York today.

These leaders comprise Nobel laureates, economists, artists, scientists, scholars, entrepreneurs, academics and experts from the health sector. (ANI)

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TikTok Pakistan

Musk Marks TikTok As Extremely Destructive

By LokMarg

Billionaire Elon Musk has expressed his concern over the ill effects of the social media platform ‘TikTok’ on certain age groups.

Musk took to his Twitter handle on Sunday to share a finding which mentions about ill-effects of the video-making platform ‘TikTok‘.
Elon dropped a picture featuring a research synopsis about the researchers who created accounts of fictitious 13-year-old users and later their feeds got flooded with clips about eating disorders, body image, self-harm and suicide. Musk captioned it as, “Extremely destructive if accurate.”

Earlier on Friday billionaire announced Linda Yaccarino as the new Twitter CEO after thinking about stepping down as a CEO of Twitter within six weeks.

Musk who bought Twitter for USD 44 billion last year will continue to retain a firm grip on the company and will focus on product design and new technology.

Linda will primarily focus on business operations.

As Twitter’s owner, he has put his stamp on it by eliminating more than 75 per cent of its 7,500 employees, installing his own leaders and changing the service’s features and strategy. He also took Twitter private, which means he does not have to disclose corporate information to the public.

The outgoing CEO recently announced adding another update to Twitter allowing its verified users to have early access to encrypted messaging service.

The update is currently available only for verified users.

Back in December, Musk said he would step aside as Twitter’s CEO once he found “someone foolish enough” to take over the role. Musk recently officially renamed the company “X Corp.” as the parent of Twitter, reported Variety. (ANI)

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Amitabh after twitter tick

Tu Cheez Badi Hai Musk Musk: Amitabh After Twitter’s Tick

By LokMarg

Bollywood veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan took to his inimitable style to thank Twitter chief Elon Musk for restoring the blue checkmark on his social media handle.

The Musk-owned social media platform had earlier removed blue ticks from legacy accounts, which had not purchased its paid Blue service and several celebrities including Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and others had lost their blue ticks.
“Tu cheez badi hai musk musk” posted the superstar on Friday, writing in Hindi using an eastern Uttar Pradesh dialect, after the trademark blue verification badge was back on the megastar’s Twitter. Big B interchanged the lyrics of the song “Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast” from the 1994 film “Mohra” to thank “big brother” Musk .

“Hey Musk brother! We thank you very much! Blue Lotus (blue tick) is added in front of my name! Now what do I tell you, brother? I feel like singing a song, Will you like to listen? Ok listen “Tu cheez badi hai musk musk… tu chiz badi hai musk”

Bachchan had earlier taken to the social media platform to return his blue tick which he referred to as the “neel kamal.”

The ‘Piku’ actor also folded his hands (he used an emoticon) urging for the return of his verification badge. The megastar claimed that he had already paid for the services.

Twitter had earlier announced the implementation of paid subscription service which charges USD 8 for blue verification badge on the microblogging site. Those who didn’t pay up or buy the service in time lost the blue checkmark on their handles.

This creativity by the Bollywood legend left his fans in splits.

The blue tick served as a way of protecting well-known individuals from impersonation and tackling false information.

“On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue,” Twitter said in a post in March.

Twitter first introduced the blue check mark system in 2009 to help users identify that celebrities, politicians, companies and brands, news organizations and other accounts “of public interest” were genuine and not impostors or parody accounts. The company didn’t previously charge for verification.

Musk launched Twitter Blue with the check-mark badge as one of the premium perks within two weeks of the company’s takeover last year. (ANI)

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Kangana's 'Emergency'

Lights, Camera, Twitter: Kangana Ranaut Is Back In Action

By LokMarg

Kangana Ranaut is back on Twitter. The actor-director returned to the microblogging site on Tuesday. Her comeback tweet read, “Hello everyone, it’s nice to be back here.”

She further tweeted a BTS (behind the scenes) video of her upcoming film ‘Emergency’ and the news has the fans excited!

She attached a caption with the BTS video – “And it’s a wrap !!! Emergency filming completed successfully… see you in cinemas on 20th October 2023”

The actor’s fans are quite ecstatic to have her back and many even replied to her tweet saying, “Welcome back!!!”

However, an official blue tick from her profile is missing, which fans are hoping will be attached to her account soon.

Last year, in May, Twitter “permanently suspended” Kangana’s account on Twitter after she posted a series of tweets making derogatory remarks on the recent results of the West Bengal assembly elections.

In her tweets, the ‘Queen’ star demanded President’s rule in West Bengal after Mamata Banerjee-led TMC defeated BJP in the state elections last year.

Taking to her Twitter handle, the National Award-winning actor used demeaning words against Mamata. In a series of controversial tweets, Kangana called her an “unleashed monster”.

According to a Twitter spokesperson, Kangana’s account was constantly provoking anger and violence, which was diminishing the value of global public conversation on the platform.

The Twitter rules under which the ‘Manikarnika’ star’s account was blocked stated, “Twitter’s purpose is to serve the public conversation. Violence, harassment and other similar types of behaviour discourage people from expressing themselves and ultimately diminish the value of global public conversation. Our rules are to ensure all people can participate in the public conversation freely and safely.”

After Elon Musk took over the reins of the micro-blogging site in October last year, Kangana expressed her willingness to be back on Twitter.

Ranaut’s Instagram stories were cascading her fan’s requests to retrieve the actor’s suspended account. (ANI)

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Elon Musk

New Twitter Policy To Follow, Question Science: Musk

By LokMarg

Talking to Social media, Elon Musk on Wednesday announced that the new Twitter Policy will not only follow science but also question science, reasonably.

“New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” Musk tweeted.

Musk stated, “Anyone who says that criticizing them is doubting science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist,” in a follow-up tweet to his initial policy statement.

No further details of the plan are released as of yet.

Since Elon Musk has taken charge of Twitter as its CEO, he has been under the spotlight for his social media presence.

The Twitter CEO has finally spoken up about his promised resignation from his post after Monday’s poll. Taking to the microblogging site, Elon Musk tweeted, “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!”

The multi-billionaire added that subsequently, he will only run ‘the software & servers teams’.

The post garnered a number of reactions from netizens.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday, December 19, started a poll on the microblogging site, asking users if he should step down as head of the social media platform and also promising to abide by the result.

Taking to Twitter, Elon Musk said, “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.”

Within a few minutes of Musk’s cryptic tweet, asking users if he should step down as head of the social media platform and also promising to abide by the result, the ‘yes’ votes started edging ahead, reaching up to 57.5 percent.

In reaction, Musk said, “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”

This poll comes after Twitter Sunday announced it would ban accounts used to promote other accounts on other specific social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Mastodon.

Moreover, Twitter said that it still allows cross-posting content from any social media platform. “Posting links or usernames to social media platforms not listed above are also not in violation of this policy.”

The change in Twitter rules comes at a time when Musk has faced some criticism for major policy changes on the platform. (ANI)

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Twitter Elon Musk Agenda

‘Elon Musk Poses a Big Threat to Mainstream Media’

By LokMarg

Rishabh Verma, a Bengaluru-based techie, is both amused and annoyed by a series of impulsive decisions taken by the new boss of Twitter. His views:

It’s funny to see how things are unfolding at Twitter under the new leadership of Elon Musk. It has been nearly a month since he took charge of Twitter; and every day, he is making new decisions, reversing old ones.

From laying off employees to adding new features and capabilities to its platform and revoking banned accounts, among other controversies, a lot has changed in a short span of time. It seems that he plans to revamp the organization completely.

He also thinks his every action is calculated, well planned and driven by certain agendas. They say there’s no bad publicity. Musk knows it very well. He wants to be in news all the time and that’s why he also takes those controversial decisions. He fired Twitter employees and then re-hired many of them. He also unblocks some controversial personalities like Donald Trump and Kanye West, who were earlier blocked by the platform for inciting violence and making hate speeches.

Musk is also pushing Twitter as a mainstream media platform and becoming a medium that gives the ‘most accurate source of information about the world.’ If he succeeds in this, mainstream media days are numbered. Twitter will replace them.

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He recently lauded his team for its coverage of the bankruptcy of crypto platform FTX, where he said that it is incomparably faster and better quality than old-school media. In addition to this, he also said that the FIFA World Cup 2022 boosted Twitter activity to a new level.

While he is lauding Twitter for news coverage, he is berating other media houses and calling them fake. A few days ago, Musk tweeted saying ‘False’ to one of Business Insider’s articles. He said that Business Insider is still not a real publication. Similarly to one of the Associated Press articles (AP), he said AP is an expert in misinformation.

He has taken over Twitter with a very particular agenda – to make the platform more financially sustainable. The first decision he took was to charge money for a ‘blue tick’ verified icon.

In my view, if you are capable of buying something, it indicates your financial progress. However, Twitter’s bluetick had a very different purpose to serve –  it’s one of the parameters to measure your social progress on the social media platform. As per my understanding, Twitter is still a social media website not an e-commerce platform.

It looks like he wants to present himself as the man, the myth and the legend of the world.

(The narrator is a techie who runs his own tech startup)

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