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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk made headlines pretty much daily in 2023.</li><li>Musk has used his ownership of X to broadcast opinions on politics, culture, and the economy.</li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> may have ended last year as the world's richest man, but he looks set to end this year as its most famous.After spending $44 billion in 2022 to take control of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/history-behind-elon-musk-x-brand-that-may-replace-twitter-2023-7">X, formerly known as Twitter</a>, the 52-year-old billionaire has been seemingly everywhere in 2023.His non-stop posting habit means there'll be an Elon take for every hot-button issue. Since he now owns <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-splintering-new-less-toxic-era-meta-bluesky-twitter-2023-10">the digital town square</a> most popular with newsmakers, there's been little to check him.Musk has always been outspoken. But his huge following on X and his near-constant stream of consciousness posting mean he has opined on: the Russia-Ukraine war; the Israel-Hamas conflict, the next US presidential election; the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ackman-harvard-upenn-antisemitism-elon-musk-x-2023-12">debate over antisemitism at Harvard</a>; and many other issues. Almost every topic is a contentious one.Though Musk is not an expert in any of these subjects, he has often won the attention of global leaders. His remarks are often reported without much further analysis.This is all while continuing to run <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-recalls-2-million-cars-as-regulators-say-autopilot-insufficent-2023-12">Tesla</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-valuation-175-billion-more-disney-comcast-2023-12">SpaceX</a> too. Few corporate leaders can boast this kind of crossover influence.Here's how he got there.<h2>Welcome to X</h2><div type="image" title="X owner Elon Musk (left) said last month that he might be rolling out a paywall to all users." height="768" width="1024" msid="106207671" hostid="261" sizebytes="38466"></div>When <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-reach-agreement-to-close-acquisition-deal-2022-10">Musk took Twitter private in 2022</a>, his ambitions for the social media app were anyone's guess. We have a clearer picture now.Step one in his reign at Twitter has been cost-cutting, and Musk immediately <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-laid-off-twitter-workers-value-tech-jobs-work-2023-5">cut almost 90% of the company's workers</a>.The bruising move set a trend for the rest of Silicon Valley. CEOs making tough decisions about how to navigate a high-interest rate economy followed suit, and made <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-year-of-efficiency-working-meta-ai-2023-7">drastic layoffs in the name of efficiency</a>.Then, Musk appeared to try and remake Twitter, or X, in his own image.Presenting himself as an anti-elitiest, free-speech-for-everyone populist, Musk binned Twitter's verification system, which had prioritized journalists, politicians, academics, and celebrities. Anyone can now pay for verification.Having axed most of Twitter's trust and safety team, Twitter's "Community Notes" feature became more responsible for regulating harmful or incorrect posts. Finally, Twitter disappeared altogether as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/history-behind-elon-musk-x-brand-that-may-replace-twitter-2023-7">Musk rebranded the company to X</a>.<h2>A political tool against the 'woke mind virus'</h2><div type="image" title="Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) takes Elon Musk (L) on a tour of Kibbutz Kfar Aza." height="2000" width="3000" msid="106207673" hostid="261" sizebytes="230366"></div>The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/european-commission-x-launched-investigation-elon-musk-social-media-2023-12">billionaire's control of X</a> has made Musk a hugely influential person in shaping the way millions digest news on everything from conflicts to elections. At the end of November, Musk went to Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog and visit sites devastated by Hamas' October 7 terrorist attacks. The trip followed his amplification of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-faces-consequences-for-calling-antisemitic-tweet-actual-truth-2023-11?r=US&amp;IR=T">an antisemitic tweet, which he described as "the actual truth."</a>Earlier in November, at the end of an AI summit hosted by the UK, Musk shared a stage with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. During the discussion, he <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-rishi-sunak-interview-best-quotes-ai-robots-2023-11">described AI as a "magic genie problem."</a>Heads of state of countries including South Korea, India, Turkey, and France have all met Musk this year. In May, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-china-trip-feast-restaurant-beijing-2023-5">he completed a whirlwind tour of China</a>. The trip included meetings with ministers from various departments of the Chinese Communist Party.At home in the US, Musk has been inviting presidential hopefuls like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-furious-after-ron-desantis-event-saw-app-crash-2023-5">Ron DeSantis to launch their campaigns</a> via broadcasts on Spaces.His reasons?In 2022, Musk said he was going to wade further into politics to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-wading-into-politics-stop-woke-mind-virus-2022-5">put an end to the "woke mind virus."</a><h2>More intra-CEO beef</h2><div type="image" title="Elon Musk (left) and Mark Zuckerberg (right)." height="768" width="1024" msid="106207675" hostid="261" sizebytes="41872"></div>Musk has never been one to shy away from conflict. Remember the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-talks-about-his-wealth-pedo-guy-defamation-trial-2019-12">diver in Thailand he called, without evidence, a "pedo guy?"</a>Musk kicked off a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-vs-mark-zuckerberg-feud-history-2021-1">whole summer of beef with Mark Zuckerberg </a>after the Meta launched a rival to X, called Threads. In response, Musk challenged Zuckerberg to an MMA fight, that he may or may not have wanted to take place in from of a live audience at the colosseum in Rome. In keeping with some Musk bombast, the fight never happened.He's also fired shots at Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales over the site's requests for donations. He's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-thinks-openai-sam-altman-made-dangerous-ai-discovery-2023-11">expressed "mixed feelings" about Sam Altman</a>, the ChatGPT boss who he cofounded OpenAI with.Musk also claimed Disney boss Bob Iger should be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-disney-ceo-bob-iger-comments-should-be-fired-2023-12?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=business-sf&amp;utm_source=twitter">"fired immediately" </a>after the House of Mouse stopped advertising on his platform.Evidently, Musk enjoys having millions of followers at his disposal. But are X's days numbered? The site's revenue is widely thought to have tanked as advertisers fled the platform. One theory: Musk is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-looks-like-he-is-destroying-x-intentionally-2023-11?r=US&amp;IR=T">deliberately destroying the platform</a> to reduce interest payments on the debt he owes the banks who financed his takeover. There may not be an X to post on come 2024.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>ICYMI, YouTube is introducing rounded corners.</li><li>Meanwhile, X and Meta have brought a dizzying array of controversial changes and feature roll-outs, all in 2023 alone.</li></ul>You certainly can't fault YouTube for doing too much.In stark contrast to Meta's and Twitter's headline-grabbing changes, YouTube quietly unveiled a very subtle one: rounded corners, as seen in the screenshot below. <div type="image" title="YouTube videos now have rounded corners instead of sharp edges." height="1284" width="1966" msid="102977580" hostid="261"></div>A YouTube spokesperson <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23841737/youtube-rounded-corners-desktop">confirmed the change to the Verge on Tuesday</a>, saying that rounded corners on its videos will soon be coming to all users.In 2023 alone, X — formerly known as Twitter — has undergone a storm of changes and controversy under Elon Musk.To recap: The platform <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-google-tech-companies-that-changed-names-like-twitter-x-2023-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed its iconic blue bird</a> (RIP, 2010-2023), introduced <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/yoel-roth-twitter-rate-limit-bumbling-around-google-cloud-storage-2023-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rate limits</a>, faced <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-went-down-because-employee-accidentally-deleted-data-report-2023-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple outages because of inadequate staff on key teams</a>, changed its verification system <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-elon-musk-remove-legacy-blue-checkmark-program-april-2023-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for blue check marks that users can pay for</a>, gave users the ability to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/x-twitter-letting-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-checks-users-mock-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hide the blue check marks</a> they paid for, deactivated <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grieving-relatives-blast-elon-musk-for-removing-dormant-twitter-accounts-2023-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the accounts of dead loved ones</a>, temporarily <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-x-glitch-temporarily-wiped-images-links-2014-ellen-oscars-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost access to images from 2014 and before</a>, and sued a non-profit which <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-x-twitter-sues-hate-speech-nonprofit-response-authoritarian-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused the platform of not doing enough against hate speech</a>.That's not all — the company could <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-plans-remove-block-feature-x-twitter-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soon be removing users' ability to block others</a> and plans to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-to-remove-news-headlines-from-x-posts-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remove news headlines</a> from posts.Meta isn't that far off either with its news-making moves. The platform <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-launch-meta-instagram-twitter-rival-mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-2023-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced its "Twitter-killer" rival</a> before quickly losing the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-meta-app-decrease-daily-active-users-mark-zuckerberg-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">majority of its active users in a month</a>. The company also blocked users from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-google-block-news-canada-online-news-act-australia-2023-6">viewing or sharing news on its platforms in Canada</a>, which some said<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/canadians-struggle-to-share-wildfire-information-after-meta-news-ban-2023-8"> prevented users from accessing information about wildfires</a>. And, it seems to have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-zuckerberg-stopped-pitching-advertisers-metaverse-focus-reels-ai-report-2023-4">stopped pitching the metaverse to advertisers</a>, the technology that drove the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-plans-rebrand-change-new-name-focus-metaverse-2021-10">company's rebrand from Facebook</a>.In the same time frame, YouTube <a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/5-premium-features-to-up-your-youtube-game/">added five features to YouTube Premium</a>, added a new <a href="https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/taking-music-discovery-to-the-next-level-with-samples/">music discovery feature to YouTube Music</a>, removed <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23736246/youtube-ending-stories-shorts-community-posts">YouTube Stories</a>, and — I can't stress this enough, because you might not notice otherwise — introduced rounded corners for its videos.Of course, YouTube isn't known for rocking the boat with big changes.I, for one, love that the last noteworthy YouTube change I can remember was when they introduced <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10332730?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"clips," or the ability to share tiny snippets of videos</a> all the way <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22254528/youtube-clips-alpha-twitch-mixer-facebook-livestreaming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">back in 2021</a>.I still <a href="https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxzC43qcXLIxnJ2sgmRY2IL0QYKk9mAyLA">deploy this clip on a weekly basis</a> in my group chats, as what is basically a long-form reaction .gif. It's nice to know that there's a platform that's committed to not doing too much.YouTube did not respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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The developing Asia's economy will grow 4.2 per cent this year and 4.6 per cent next year, ADB said in a regular supplement to the <keyword id="1006845" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="asian-development-outlook" source="Orion">Asian Development Outlook</keyword> (<keyword id="199985" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="ado" source="Orion">ADO</keyword>) 2022, released on Wednesday. ADB estimated in September that the economy of the region would grow 4.3 per cent in 2022 and 4.9 per cent in 2023. Monetary policy tightening by central banks globally and in the region, the protracted Russian invasion of Ukraine, and recurring lockdowns in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are slowing down developing Asia's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, ADB said. Restrictions under the "zero-Covid" approach, along with a struggling property market, have led to another downgrade of the PRC's growth outlook. 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The forecast for next year was cut to 4.3 per cent from 4.5 per cent, due to the global slowdown, according to the Bank. Gross domestic product growth projections for India were maintained at 7 per cent this fiscal year and 7.2 per cent next fiscal year, according to the ADB. Even with the downgraded forecasts, the ADB expects developing Asia will still do better than other regions globally, both in terms of growth and inflation. ADB's growth forecast for <keyword id="53564" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="southeast-asia" source="Orion">Southeast Asia</keyword> this year was raised to 5.5 per cent from 5.1 per cent, amid robust consumption and tourism recovery in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Projections for next year, however, were lowered to 4.7 per cent from 5 per cent due to weakening global demand. 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