Two Twitter leaders are leaving the company after Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s successful bid to buy the social media platform. A memo obtained by the New York Times also indicates that the company is establishing a hiring freeze and cutting back on spending after poor performance in recent quarters.
Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins has suggested that Elon Musk loosening speech restrictions on Twitter would be “incredible and dangerous narcissism”.
Recent reports state that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expected to serve as temporary CEO of Twitter following his $44 billion takeover of the social media firm.
Twitter’s board of directors is deploying defensive measures to prevent Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a declared free speech absolutist, from taking over the company.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal reportedly held an all-staff meeting on Thursday to assuage employees’ fears following Elon Musk’s $43 billion offer to purchase Twitter. After one frantic employee compared the company’s position to a hostage situation, Agrawal reportedly said, “I don’t believe we are being held hostage.”
Elon Musk has made a public offer to buy 100 percent of Twitter stock and transform it into a public company, in what the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO says will unlock the company’s potential to be “the platform for free speech around the globe.”
According to a recent report, Twitter employees were scheduled to take Monday off work this week for the company’s monthly “day of rest,” but the recent controversy over Elon Musk becoming the company’s largest shareholder and almost joining the board of directors left many workers “super stressed.”
Conservative pundit Jack Posobiec was briefly suspended by Twitter over the weekend after sharing a link to buy T-shirts identifying Disney as “groomers,” due to the woke entertainment giant’s opposition to Florida’s bill protecting kids from sexual predators and groomers in the education system.
Juanita Broaddrick, the former nursing administrator who accused former President Bill Clinton of rape, has been banned from Twitter after tweeting about the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. Although Elon Musk has made news by becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder, it is clear that censorship still runs amok on the platform.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has reportedly decided not to join Twitter’s board of directors after becoming the company’s largest shareholder.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to address panicked Twitter employees following his purchase of a large portion of Twitter stock and appointment to the censor-happy company’s board of directors. One employee of the far-left company asked on an internal message board: “We know that he has caused harm to workers, the trans community, women, and others with less power in the world,” the employee asked. “How are we going to reconcile this decision with our values? Does innovation trump humanity?”
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and the world’s wealthiest person, bought a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, after conservatives on the platform urged him to use his wealth to fix the platform’s free speech problem.
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) submitted document preservation notices to twelve individuals from the intelligence community, White House, Facebook, and Twitter in regard to the suppression of the “Laptop From Hell” series in October 2020.
The editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, the popular conservative-run satirical website, has been locked out of his Twitter account after mocking the platform for allowing Chinese officials involved in abuses against the country’s Uighur minority on the platform while conservatives are censored.
Turning Point USA founder and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk has been locked out of his Twitter account until he deletes a tweet about male-to-female transgender Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine.
Social media giant Twitter recently banned a number of accounts sharing Russian military activity during the Ukraine invasion — then promptly had a change of heart and unsuspended the accounts.
Twitter has reportedly removed hundreds of fake Chinese accounts and bots that were promoting the Genocide Games while sweeping China’s human rights abuses under the rug.
Twitter remains silent on the sharing of material from the hack of Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo across its platform, despite the far-left tech company’s strict rules against sharing hacked materials.
Twitter posted its first earnings report since appointing its new censorship-happy CEO, Parag Agrawal, and missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue, and user growth.
Social media giant Twitter has expanded the test of its “downvote” system worldwide. The company claims that downvotes will be used to “surface the most relevant replies within Tweets.”
Twitter required account holders to delete 4.7 million tweets that allegedly violated the platform’s rules in the first half of 2021, according to the far-left Silicon Valley platform’s latest transparency report — while simultaneously complaining that the “open internet” is “under threat: from authoritarian governments.
Twitter has restructured its internal security team this week, terminating its head of security. The social media platform’s chief information security officer is also exiting the company in the coming weeks. New CEO Parag Agrawal continues to make his mark on the Silicon Valley company.
Joe Kent, a retired Green Beret who is running for Congress as a Republican in Washington State’s third district, has been locked out of Twitter for several hours with no reason given.
Twitter has banned @ExposeFauci, an account set up by Project Veritas to promote the organization’s latest bombshell, a drop of documents regarding U.S. government involvement in gain of function research on bat-borne coronaviruses in China.
Twitter banned the accounts @NewsForAll, @FootballForAll and @PoliticsForAll, popular accounts that aggregated news, sports, and politics stories from across the British media.
Twitter permanently blacklisted the personal account of a sitting member of Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), over the New Year’s weekend. “Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth,” Greene said in a statement responding to the ban. “That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies.”
Dr. Robert W. Malone, a virologist who worked on mRNA technology in the 1980s, and a critic of the technology’s use in coronavirus vaccines, has been suspended from Twitter.
Author and independent journalist Alex Berenson is suing Twitter in federal court for permanently blacklisting his account over a tweet questioning the effectiveness of existing coronavirus vaccines.
Following his acquittal, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have permitted teenager Kyle Rittenhouse to return to their platforms, after previously banning him and any support for him — despite the fact that publicly available video evidence pointed to his innocence.
Twitter has blacklisted an account posting courtroom updates from the trial of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of sex trafficking minors. The popular account’s suspension comes amid a wide-ranging purge of anonymous accounts from new CEO Parag Agrawal’s platform.
The new Twitter CEO has a difficult job ahead of him, trying to keep the platform free of dangerous misinformation spewed by powerful Democrats, establishment news organizations, and influential celebrities.
Just days after participating in a charity event for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Jeopardy! champion Matt Amodio lost his Twitter verification checkmark on the platform. The popular contestant fired back, “We now know how Twitter feels about helping children in need, apparently.”
On the first day of Parag Agrawal’s tenure as Twitter CEO, the company banned the sharing of private photos or videos without consent. Sounds like a good policy, doesn’t it? Except the details are so vague, the ultimate outcome will be the banning of anyone who exposes individuals the establishment likes, while corporate media will be free to dox at will.
Supporters of the violent, extremist Antifa movement are already attempting to exploit Twitter’s new ban on the sharing of private photos to stop people sharing mugshots of far-left activists who have been arrested for engaging in violence, looting, and other acts of thuggery.
Wired explains in a recent article why Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey was the “soul of Twitter” and appeared to be truly dedicated to his vision for the platform.
Just one day after Jack Dorsey was replaced as the CEO of Twitter by the company’s former CTO, Parag Agrawal, the platform has banned the sharing of any images or videos of people without their explicit consent. The far-left company stated: “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities.”
In an interview last year, the incoming CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, made it clear that free speech is not a priority for the company, and that his platform would not be “bound” by the First Amendment. Agrawal said: “The kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.”
Incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who will shortly replace Jack Dorsey as head of the far-left social media company, uncritically repeated a quote in 2010 suggesting that there should be no need to “distinguish between white people and racists.”
Twitter stock jumped by as much as 10 percent in pre-market trading before being halted following news that CEO Jack Dorsey is resigning from the company, to be replaced by Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal
