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In the two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he managed to kill its value, hemorrhage huge swaths of revenue, alienated its advertisers, and triggered a user exodus to alternative platforms. Today, users on X — the artist formerly known as Twitter — can expect to encounter a right-wing sinkhole of artificially boosted content, gratuitous AI slop, and something akin to the experience of a foie gras goose being force fed Musk’s cringiest memes at the top of their feeds.

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Millions of Twitter users have voted 'Yes' to Elon Musk's Twitter poll on whether he should step down as the CEO of the micro-blogging platform. The results come a few days after Musk deleted an earlier poll where the majority of respondents voted for him to immediately restore the Twitter accounts of several journalists who were suspended from the platform for allegedly revealing his location — an allegation the suspended journalists denied.

Late on Sunday, Musk started a poll asking Twitter users whether he should step down as the CEO. When the poll closed on Monday, more than 17.5 million people had voted, with 57.5 percent of respondents voting 'Yes' and 42.5 percent voting 'No.' Musk also promised to abide by the results of the poll, but with the vote not going his way, he is already insisting that there's no apparent successor in sight to take over the job. Replying to one user,...

Elon Musk is summoning the masses to decide: Should he stay or should he go? On Sunday, the controversial Twitter CEO conducted a poll posing this question: “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” By early Monday morning, more than 57 percent of voters had weighed in with a “Yes.”

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Terminator star and ex-governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has donated $1 million to a GoFundMe campaign called Frontline Responders Fund.

Frontline Responders Fund was created to assist overwhelmed medical professionals with critical supplies like gowns, surgical masks, thermometers, and gloves that they’ll require as they fight the war against the rapidly spreading Covid-19 coronavirus. The campaign, which is aiming to raise $10 million, has already reached $3.5 million in about 24 hours.

Only Schwarzenegger and computer scientist Paul Graham have donated $1 million, but some other major donations have come in from such famous names as actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Oculus Vr Inc. co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe.

I never believed in sitting on the couch and complaining about how bad things are, I always believed we should all do our part to make things better. This is a simple way to protect our real action heroes on the frontlines in our hospitals,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to do his part during the coronavirus pandemic.

The former California governor and actor, 72, shared a screenshot of a GoFundMe page he helped co-create called “Frontline Responders Fund,” meant to provide medical professionals with critical supplies such as masks, gowns and gloves.

Schwarzenegger revealed he had donated $1 million to the fund in his Instagram post on Tuesday.

“I never believed in sitting on the couch and complaining about how bad things are, I always believed we should all do our part to make things better,” the Terminator star wrote in the caption.

He continued, “This is...

Imagine Impact is a Silicon Valley-inspired film and TV writers’ accelerator programme.

Imagine Impact – the Silicon Valley-inspired film and TV writers’ accelerator programme – yesterday announced a new programme in Australia, in partnership with Gentle Giant Media Group, Screen Australia and Film Victoria.

This deal could signal more international expansion to come.

“There are a few different exciting ways that Impact is going to be working going forward,” Tyler Mitchell, head of impact at the offshoot of Imagine Entertainment, told Screen. “We plan on having an international presence and we’re in active conversations with multiple international companies and countries about doing that.

Exclusive: On a day when director Ron Howard introduces Solo: A Star Wars Story to Cannes, Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Howard are launching another major initiative, one designed to transform good ideas into successes in narrative and documentary film, TV, Vr and other platforms. Imagine Impact is a fully funded global content accelerator program that will start in Los Angeles this fall, and branch out to Latin America, United Kingdom, the Middle East and China. It core is an eight-week creative boot camp that will discover new voices and empower content creators and narrative storytellers from around the world.

While Hollywood has shown anxiety over the growing infiltration of Silicon Valley into the entertainment business, Grazer and Howard and their exec Tyler Mitchell modeled the new program after Y Combinator, which grooms aspiring entrepreneurs by incubating their ideas in a boot camp before placing them in front of...