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CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Thursday during his network’s coverage of Donald Trump’s arrest in Fulton County, GA that the former president likely returned to Twitter, recently rebranded as X, with his first post since January 2021, to fundraise.

In lieu of attending the first Republican primary debate, former President Donald Trump released an interview with Tucker Carlson that reached 90 million views in three hours after it was posted on Twitter. 

Former President Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson during their interview released moments before Wednesday night’s debate that he did not attend the event because he is dominating the polls and Fox News “isn’t particularly friendly to” him and worked to prop up Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in his eyes.

A recent report has cast doubt on the authenticity of Elon Musk’s 153 million followers on Twitter, now rebranded as X. According to researchers, 42 percent of Musk’s followers have zero followers of their own, and 25 percent created their accounts since his October 2022 acquisition of the platform.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads social media platform, which saw a rapid rise in popularity upon its launch as a “sanely run” Twitter alternative, is gearing up to release a web version in an effort to revitalize its user base amid crashing engagement figures.

Following Elon Musk’s announcement that the “block” feature would be removed from X (formerly Twitter), actor James Woods pointed out why he believed this was a bad idea. Musk, the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” responded, “then delete your account.” Musk then blocked Woods, popular conservative pundit and author Catturd, and other prominent users  who dared to make their opinion on his intensely unpopular idea known.

Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), has announced plans to remove the blocking feature from the platform, a move that the platform’s own “community notes” fact check feature claims may violate the policies of the Apple and Google app stores.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy predicts a recession in 2024, telling Tucker Carlson on his eponymously named show, “Tucker on Twitter,” that it will lead to frustration among Americans, which he says could trigger either a positive and “creative” revolution for having endured the hardships or a negative and “destructive” one. 

A now-deleted post on X from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s account appears to have been meant for Joe Biden’s account.

Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has been intentionally slowing down the speed at which users can access links to certain news organizations and online competitors, including the New York Times and Facebook, a move that appears to be targeted at companies that Musk has a personal grudge against.

The Washington Post alleged that X, formerly known as Twitter, has throttled traffic to websites he reportedly dislikes, which has reignited the debate over net neutrality.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of Twitter (now known as X), recently announced his intention to show up at Mark Zuckerberg’s doorstep ready to fight. This comes after months of trash talk between the two tech giants over a proposed cage fight that has seen Musk swing from planning a gladiator battle in Rome to calling for a “noble” debate instead.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk “isn’t serious” about his proposed fight between the two after Musk proposed a “practice round” in Zuckerberg’s backyard and revealed he may need back surgery. Zuckerberg blasted Musk’s “antics,” saying, “We can all agree Elon isn’t serious.”

Just days after appearing to wimp out of a physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg, calling for a “noble” debate as he claimed he may require back surgery, Elon Musk is suddenly talking about a fight again. Musk provided fresh details about the “fight” in a series of tweets, claiming an “epic location” in Italy, adding that “Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy.”

In a recent interview with CNBC, Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of the newly rebranded X (formerly Twitter), has come forward to explain the platform’s transformation and its increasingly stringent approach to censorship content it judges to be “lawful but awful.”

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) reportedly reached out to Twitter in 2020 to censor users who criticized her 2017 posts uncovered by Breitbart News, in which she claimed former President Donald Trump had a “neo-nazi base.”

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has shifted from challenging Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight to now proposing a “noble” debate instead.

Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk claims he may require surgery on his neck and upper back, casting uncertainty over his professional commitments to his many companies and potentially “delaying” his highly anticipated cage fight with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.

Elon Musk, owner of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has made a broad promise: that his company will fund the lawsuits of anyone who faces unfair treatment at work due to their activity on his platform.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have been engaging in a public exchange over a proposed cage fight, leaving the public to wonder whether this is a serious challenge or mere online jousting between two tech giants. Zuckerberg says he is “not holding my breath” in a comment to his Threads platform, while Musk commented that he may require surgery before a fight can occur.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that his cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg still appears to be going ahead, with the event to be livestreamed on Musk’s social media platform, Twitter (now known as X).

Elon Musk has announced his intention to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company’s 30 percent commission on in-app purchases, commonly referred to as the “Apple tax.” The issue was raised to Musk based on the massive slice of Twitter content creators’ revenue claimed by Apple.

Twitter’s subscription service, Twitter Blue, is undergoing a transformation into X Blue, and with this change comes a new feature that allows subscribers to hide the notorious blue checkmark on their profiles. Although Elon Musk’s plan for profitability was initially based on the masses of Twitter users paying for to have a verification badge, it quickly become the subject of mockery.

Elon Musk’s Twitter (now known as X Corp.) has taken down the giant glowing X sign from its headquarters in San Francisco after facing criticism from neighbors and city officials.

Elon Musk, the South African-born CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter (now X Corp) called on the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, to condemn a racist chant used by one of the country’s political leaders, that encourages the murder of white Boer farmers.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a British nonprofit that took a central role in the post-2016 censorship industrial complex, is targeting Twitter, now rebranded as X by Elon Musk.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill is joining the call for a one-day Twitter, or “X,”  boycott that is designed to hurt Elon Musk financially — presumably by dampening advertising revenue generated by user activity.

Elon Musk’s giant “X” sign, installed on the roof of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters as part of his rebranding effort, is under investigation by city officials for lacking the necessary permits. City inspectors attempted to access the roof to inspect the sign, but Twitter denied them access.

Kanye West’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, has been reinstated after an eight-month ban over offensive and anti-Semitic tweets.

Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform, Threads, has suffered a massive setback as the Facebook-owned platform hoping to be a “sanely run” Twitter alternative has lost at least half its users. Zuckerberg said, “If you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We’re not there yet.”

Elon Musk has snatched the “@x” Twitter handle without offering financial compensation to the original owner, his latest move that symbolizes the chaotic nature of his rebranding of Twitter into an “everything app” named X.

On Mon., LeBron James’s son, Bronny, suffered a cardiac arrest and had to be revived at a hospital. On Tues., Elon Musk piled on.

Analysts believe that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is risking killing billions of dollars in brand value by turning Twitter into “X,” given that Twitter is one of the rare brands that has become so popular it turned into a verb as it is intertwined with everyday conversation. One marketing expert calls the rebrand “completely irrational from a business and brand point of view.”

Elon Musk suggested that the coronavirus vaccine may have played a part in Bronny James’ recent cardiac arrest.

A recent study by Stanford’s Internet Observatory has unveiled a disturbing prevalence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), otherwise known as child pornography, on Mastodon. The decentralized social media platform has been a popular destination for leftists fleeing from Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the platform.

Threads, the Twitter clone launched by Facebook (now known as Meta), has suffered a massive drop in user engagement. One of Silicon Valley’s key metrics, daily active users, has plummeted by 70 percent since its initial launch.