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Taylor Swift AI Porn Forces Changes at Twitter and Microsoft

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Elon Musk’s X halted searches for Taylor Swift this weekend after AI-generated, sexually explicit photosof the international pop superstar went viral on the platform. This is one of the few times X has meaningfully blocked controversial content on the platform, which has largely hidden behind claims of being a “free speech” platform to let its content run wild since Musk’s takeover. —Maxwell Zeff Read More

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