Officials at the U.S. Treasury Department are now determining if they have the legal authority to start an investigation into Elon Musk buying Twitter, due to the Tesla CEO’s ties to foreign investors and governments.
The New York Times grudgingly admits that former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social has “managed to outpace its rivals,” and is a “vibrant” social media platform that is “increasingly brimming with activity.”
CBS’ late-night funnyman James Corden acknowledged that a joke about Elon Musk taking over Twitter he told on his “Late Late Show,” came from comedian Ricky Gervais.
Interpublic Group, also known as IPG, one of the world’s top advertising firms, has advised a pause on Twitter ads, in an early signal of the corporate blacklisting Elon Musk is likely to face if he restores free speech on the platform.
Elon Musk is to meet the EU’s internal market chief after the bloc demanded that Twitter keeps censoring free speech.
Since his takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has reportedly enlisted more than 50 of his most trusted Tesla employees to help in his restructuring of the social media platform.
Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s Board of Directors and named himself as the sole director of the company, in a widely expected move following his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform last week.
Multimillionaire author Stephen King has complained about the prospect of paying $20 a month to maintain his blue-check verification on Twitter, threatening to quit the platform if he is forced to pay the apparently exorbitant amount.
Elon Musk has limited Twitter employees’ access to content moderation tools in his first week of ownership, as he promises a radical change in course on censorship. The media, predictably, is claiming that the sky is falling.
Executives from Facebook and Twitter, including the recently-fired head of trust & safety Vijaya Gadde, held regular meetings with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discuss censorship on a wide range of topics, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, coronavirus, and “racial justice,” according to leaked documents.
According to recent reports, members of Elon Musk’s inner circle worked alongside Twitter’s remaining senior executives through the weekend to discuss the site’s approach to content moderation and plans to lay off 25 percent of the workforce in a first round of staff cuts.
Hollywood screenwriter Shonda Rhimes says she is leaving Twitter following Elon Musk completing his takeover of the company on Thursday.
Elon Musk has reportedly given Twitter employees their first major task — introducing a $20 per month subscription for users to gain a verification badge by November 7 or leave the company.
According to a recent report from the Information, Tesla CEO and Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal and censorship queen Vijaya Gadde “for cause” to avoid paying out millions in severance packages, commonly referred to as “golden parachutes.”
Elon Musk has reportedly ordered massive job cuts across Twitter immediately after his official takeover of the company on Thursday. The Tesla CEO is also requesting that managers review employees of the social media company.
NBA superstar LeBron James says he hopes that billionaire and new Twitter Owner Elon Musk, takes the amount of hate speech on the platform “very seriously.”
The much-derided Facebook Oversight Board, which upheld the politically-motivated blacklisting of Donald Trump last year, has offered to “help” Twitter decide on new content moderation rules. The so-called Supreme Court of Facebook is packed with leftists that hate free speech.
Two pranksters carrying boxes near Twitter’s San Francisco building successfully fooled a number of members of the media at the HQ into believing they were Twitter engineers fired by Elon Musk. One gave his name as Rahul Ligma in reference to a common internet joke, and the other ended the interview by saying he had to “touch base with my husband and wife.” Elon Musk commented on the tricksters calling it “one of the best trolls ever.”
Elon Musk has been told that Twitter must continue censoring “digital hate” by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the EU’s Thierry Breton.
Left-wing Hollywood elites are vowing to quit Twitter after Elon Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of the social media giant this week. But their righteous fury is already being called phony by those who believe, as one put it,
Twitter users flooded the social media platform with memes celebrating Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially completing his takeover of the company. “If you don’t like Twitter, get your own platform,” one meme reads, referring to a common talking point that leftists would utter in response to people calling out Twitter censoring conservative accounts.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, is convening a “content moderation council” to consider major content decisions and account reinstatements on the platform. Musk promises the notoriously left-wing platform will include “widely diverse viewpoints” on the council.
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, has launched a beta version of BlueSky, powered by his long-teased decentralized social media protocol, on the same day that Elon Musk completed his takeover of Dorsey’s old company.
Left-wing Twitter users had a collective meltdown on Thursday and Friday after Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially completed his takeover of the social media platform and promptly fired top left-wing executives at the company.
Twitter restored the account of rapper and fashion mogul Kanye West as of Friday morning, less than one day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk completed his takeover of the company.
Former President Donald Trump touted his social media platform Truth Social amid Twitter’s ownership change to Elon Musk, although he struck an optimistic tone at the idea of Twitter no longer being controlled by “Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country.”
Following his takeover of Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly had Tesla engineers review Twitter’s software code and prevented Twitter engineers from making further changes.
According to recent reports, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is considering taking on the CEO role at Twitter with plans to reverse many of the lifetime bans for users that have been blacklisted from the — including former President Donald Trump.
Elon Musk officially became Twitter’s owner late on Thursday as his $44 billion deal to take over the firm closed. Musk promptly fired top executives at the company, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CEO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, the “trust and safety” lead notorious for her fanatical left-wing censorship campaign.
The New York Post claims that it was hacked on Thursday after multiple offensive articles and tweets were posted to the publication’s website and Twitter account, which the newspaper called “vile and reprehensible.” The outlet moved quickly to delete the offending content and is investigating the hack.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts that the tech giant plans to slow the pace of hiring after reporting the company’s fifth consecutive quarter of declining sales growth. Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. have dropped by more than 9 percent in intraday trading.
Employees of far-left Twitter are protesting Elon Musk’s plans to fire 75 percent of the company’s workforce, in an open letter obtained by Time magazine.
Twitter employees are suffering from “exhaustion” due to a combination of the drawn-out acquisition effort of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, combined with the wider economic downturn threatening to cause headcount cuts at the company, according to an employee of the tech giant who spoke to Axios.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other White House officials must testify under oath in a lawsuit alleging the Biden administration colluded with Facebook and Twitter to suppress free speech regarding coronavirus, a federal court ordered on Friday.
Massive layoffs could be on the horizon for the far-left social platform Twitter in the coming months, no matter who owns the company, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post. In one presentation to potential investors in his takeover bid, Elon Musk reportedly states that he plans to lay off 75% of the company’s 7,500 workers.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly on Wednesday that he is “obviously overpaying” for Twitter, but claims that he is nonetheless still “excited” about his $44 billion buyout deal, which he continues to drag his feet on closing. Meanwhile, Tesla missed analyst expectations due to high material costs and production problems at multiple factories.
The social media account for Germany’s Ministry for Economics mocked the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss with a Public Enemy song.
Australian-American conservative political commentator Dr. Sydney Watson took to the Twitters to complain about American Airlines seating her between two obese people during a three-hour flight.
Kanye West will buy out free speech-friendly social media platform Parler in the wake of his Twitter and Instagram accounts being suspended, according to multiple reports Monday.
Bank of America recently shut down a new account associated created for the In the Litter Bos podcast hosted by Jewels Jones and conservative pundit and best-selling author “Catturd.” Jones described the situation as the left exerting control through any means necessary: “They are going to control you at any means or any methods that they possibly can. They’re going to exert their control over you.”
