Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: After relaxing political ad rules in January, X begins aggressively pitching political advertisers; AdImpact estimates 2023-24 US election spending at $10.2B  —  Musk’s volatile leadership of the social-media platform has pushed down its prices—which might give it an edge Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Conger / New York Times: Australia fined X ~$384K and warned Google after the companies did not give enough info on their efforts to fight CSAM, despite a law requiring such disclosures  —  The service formerly known as Twitter told Australian regulators that its automated detection of abusive material had declined after Elon Musk bought it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Giulio Piovaccari / Reuters: Ferrari begins accepting crypto payments for its cars in the US and plans to add the option for European customers in Q1 2024; Ferrari sold 13,200 cars in 2022  —  Ferrari (RACE.MI) has started to accept payment in cryptocurrency for its luxury sports cars in the U.S. and will extend the scheme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: TikTok confirms appealing a €345M teen privacy fine by EU regulators from September in the EU General Court and is also locally challenging an order by Ireland  —  – Chinese-owned platform contests EU-level, Irish decisions  — Unit faces intense scrutiny of child safeguarding practices Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Analysts: iPhone 15 sales in China are down compared to the iPhone 14; Counterpoint estimates a 4.5% drop after 17 days and Jefferies says Huawei outsold Apple  —  – IPhone 15 selling worse in China than its predecessor in 2022  — Sales of Apple’s flagship device are down 4.5% in comparison Lees verder op Tech Meme