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Jon Weeks and Rachelle Abbott

Inside Elon Musk's ‘damaging’ first year at X - Tech & Science Daily podcast

Social media expert Matt Navarra has called Elon Musk’s first full year in charge of X ‘hugely damaging’.

On the anniversary of the billionaire taking over the social media platform formerly called Twitter, Matt tells Tech & Science Daily why he believes it’s been such a tough year for X, and why he decided to stop using the social site.

Plus, our Business and Technology Correspondent Simon Hunt discusses whether X can survive in the long term.

Consumer group Which? says the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard AI can be manipulated into writing realistic scam emails and text messages.

Harry Kind, a Consumer Expert at Which? tells Tech & Science Daily how easy it was to create a convincing spam email from PayPal using ChatGPT.

Meta is now giving Threads users the ability to use GIFs and polls.

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has also revealed that they’re trying out view counts on posts and pinned posts on profiles and in replies.

Charities and campaign groups have been celebrating the UK’s Online Safety Bill finally becoming law.

The bill received Royal Assent on Thursday, and the NSPCC has called it a “watershed moment” that means children across the UK are “fundamentally safer in their everyday lives.”

However, concerns remain about the risks of a so-called back-door to encrypted messages.

Also in this episode

Ford hits the brakes on $12 billion in EV spending, rocket company given £3.5m ahead of Shetland space launch, and Intel reveals new hip-hop hold music.

Listen above, find us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you stream your podcasts.

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