Gori Lankesh, a former reporter turned activist, translator of the Gujarat Files for Canada, was shot dead by several shooters on a street in Bengaluru (India) in September 2017. She had just mocked, on social networks, the umpteenth trolls who were attacking Rana Ayyub. The investigation has not progressed to date.Stray Links – What is Elon Musk doing at Twitter? wandering links April 09, 2022 Reading time: 8 min Share TO REMEMBER THIS WEEK: Elon Musk moves to Twitter – On March 25, Elon Musk published a tweet asking his followers if the creation of a new social platform was necessary to make the principle of “freedom of expression” heard .
Twitter’s capital, the equivalent of 73.5 million shares for shareholder database $2.9 billion . The billionaire, who has more than 80 million subscribers on the social network, thus became its largest shareholder, an announcement that caused the stock to jump by more than 25% in pre-market trading . Elon Musk was thus appointed to Twitter's board of directors, promising to make improvements to the platform. He was quick to make his voice heard by asking his followers if they wanted an edit button to be added to the site .
Twitter has however confirmed that it is already working on it, while denying that the idea came from their new shareholder. It is therefore still too early to confirm what Elon Musk's arrival will mean for the platform, but we are already hearing talk of a decentralized social network . Artificial Intelligence Advances – Our ability to generate and modify “real language” and “real images” took a major leap this week. Google unveiled PaLM , a new language model that performs amazingly well across the board (even explaining jokes).
A few days later, the latter created a surprise by acquiring 9.2%
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