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Musk is under investigation by the federal government.
Twitter in a regulatory filing alleged that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his legal team failed to produce draft communications with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a slide presentation to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Twitter said it wasn’t told to burn notebooks as claimed by Musk’s team earlier this month. It added,…
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A day of chaos raises the prospect of a collapse on social media.
Several Twitter employees spoke out against the company’s new microblogging service Twitter Blue, saying that it’s discriminatory for people with verification checkmarks and could lead to abuse of social media. “Twitter’s current lords and Peasant system for who has or doesn’t have a Blue Checkmark is bullshit,” an employee said. Another employee said, “I don’t…
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The ex-Election Chief of TWc is concerned about the upcoming US elections.
Twitter’s public policy head Vijaya Gadde said she was the subject of racist and misogynistic abuse during her 11-year tenure at the company, according to Washington Post. Gadde, who also heads public policy and safety, said she was asked to fire Musk after he told prospective investors that he planned to cut 70% of Twitter’s…
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Immediately after taking control of the micro-Blogging service, Musk immediately ousted the top executives.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has asked CEO Elon Musk to stop damaging the company’s image, following a series of tweets criticising Twitter’s efforts to address a surge in hateful rhetoric. “I’m not going to stand for it any longer,” he said. “We’re trying to protect people, but you can’t damage a company that’s protecting you,”…
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Mastodon is on fire, because of all the chaos on social media.
Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey said he’s “very sceptical” about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s claims that he plans to take Twitter private. Dorsey added that his company is “not willing to go that route”. He added, “I think [Musk] is being disingenuous by saying that we’re planning to take Twitter private.” Musk claimed he’s planning to…
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The free speech of people on the social media platform is in danger.
Elon Musk’s goal of building a billion-plus user base may affect his willingness to battle foreign governments to keep content on Twitter, Global Network Initiative Executive Director Christoph Pielemeier said. He added that countries like Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia are all attractive markets for Twitter as it looks to grow its revenue and increase its…
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Employees are bracing for layoffs as Musk’s takeover continues.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded to a user who said, “It’s free money for Twitter. Advertising makes up the majority of Twitter’s revenue. It’s free money for Twitter.” Musk also responded to the user with a bullseye emoji, a smiley face wearing sunglasses and a bag of money emoji. Notably, Twitter’s revenue has fallen since…
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The person suspended from the social network for imitating an electric car manufacturer was Kathy Griffin.
Twitter has delayed account verifications for paid version of CNN Live until after the elections, CNN reported citing a source. Earlier, Twitter announced that account verifications for the paid version of the service wouldn’t be available until after the elections. A fresh Twitter account created by CNN that opted for the paid feature did not…
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Musk said that a lot of brands have paused ads, which has seen a drop in revenue.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the platform is a safe platform for all legal speech and information consumption in the European Digital Services Act, as proposed by Musk in a Twitter post. This comes after Musk announced that he would charge a monthly fee of $8 for a service called “Twitter Blue” that would allow…
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If Musk buys it, he will probably do some things with it.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday said there’s no choice except to cut jobs “when the company’s losing over $4 million/day”. He didn’t give any information on the day-to-day losses or the amount of pay offered to employees who were fired. This comes after Twitter announced it had fired around 80 employees, including some of…
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Mastodon is on fire.
A Twitter-like social networking platform, Mastodon is not accepting new users despite being launched in November. Mastodon’s new sign-up includes Twitter users like Kathy Griffin, who joined in early November, and journalist Molly Jong-Fast, who joined in late October. In contrast to Twitter, which categorizes conversations around hashtags much more frequently, Mastodon categorizes conversations around…
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Musk wants people to stop mimicking his accounts on the social network.
Twitter has fired three people, including the company’s SVP of Global Public Policy and Safety, Vijaya Gadde, after it announced a “major restructuring” on Friday. Twitter CEO Elon Musk had earlier tweeted that the company was “losing over $4 million/day” and that there was no choice to cut jobs “when the company is losing over…
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The woman doesn’t want to talk about the scandal, but she has to.
Responding to the controversy over ‘Arizona State Gamergate’, Anita Sarkeesian, a journalist and feminist, said, “It’s important to realise there is no one silver bullet.” Sarkeesian shared two screenshots of a Twitter user threatening her with a gun. Sarkeesian, who appeared on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ in 2018, said she was “heartbroken” as it was…
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The verification plan was going to be delayed until after the elections.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said he’s “absolutely” considering bringing back Vine. The comment came in response to a user’s suggestion to rethink the platform’s character limits. Earlier, Musk had vowed to restore accounts of former US President Donald Trump and others, who were previously banned from the platform. Musk has also said he’ll restrict…
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Musk is filling the void on his account that Trump left.
Two Twitter employees have said the company’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is “bullshit”. This comes after Twitter CEO Elon Musk said, “Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit.” Twitter’s former consumer teams lead said they…
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As Musk’s takeover continues, employees at the social network are bracing for layoffs.
Several Twitter employees have said Elon Musk has brought over 50 Tesla employees into the company to help with the transition after he abruptly fired four top executives on Thursday. A former employee said the health team had been told to listen to Musk adviser David Sacks’ podcast for insights into why they had just…
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When he takes control of the micro-networking website, Musk immediately removed top executives.
Twitter has postponed the introduction of a blue checkmark on users’ profiles to avoid confusion over whether it would be available for all users. Earlier, CEO Elon Musk had said that the feature was going to be made available to all users and he would be reversing the ban if he becomes the company’s owner.
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As the takeover continues, employees are bracing for layoffs.
Ex- Twitter employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the microblogging platform for not giving them enough notice of mass firings. The lawsuit alleged that Twitter violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to give employees at least 60 days’ notice before mass firings. It also alleged that the workers…
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Here’s hoping that Musk does not have a following on the micro-blogging site.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has reportedly completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. Musk had announced the deal on Wednesday, saying that he would take Twitter private in a deal valuing the social media platform at around $50 billion. Earlier this month, Musk had said that he would take Twitter private if he became…
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Employees await the fate of Mr. Musk.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been “completely absent” for weeks, a Twitter employee said. He has been encouraging people to follow him on social media for a more accurate understanding of trust and safety on the platform. Investors Jason Calacanis and Sriram Krishnan, Andreessen Horowitz’s General Partner focused on cryptocurrency and Twitter’s former consumer teams…
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Here is hoping that Musk destroys his follower base.
After Elon Musk announced his decision to step down from Twitter’s board, the company’s chief customer officer Sarah Personette tweeted she had a “great discussion” with Musk on Wednesday. Personette also shared a screenshot of a conversation between Musk and Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey. Earlier, Musk had said he’ll step down as Twitter’s CEO in…
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Musk doesn’t want the website to become a free-for-all hellscape.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was questioned by the SEC over the company’s proposed $4 billion deal with Elon Musk and whether he had knowledge of it, reports said. Dorsey said he didn’t know about the deal when it was offered to him, reports added. “I didn’t believe it at all,” Dorsey said. This comes after…
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Life under Musk is described by two Twitter employees.
Twitter has delayed the launch of a feature that would let users verify their accounts for $8 a month. The feature, which is called ‘blue checkmark’, was announced by Twitter CEO Elon Musk after his acquisition of the micro-blogging service. “We’re sorry to inform you that our new blue checkmark won’t be available starting today,”…
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Researchers think that Musk’s takeover might change the social networking site.
In his first public statement after buying Twitter, Elon Musk said he doesn’t want the micro-blogging platform to become a “free-for-all hellscape”. He added that he is buying the platform to help humanity and doesn’t want it to become a “free-for-all hellscape.” He also said that he’ll “dramatically reduce” Twitter’s oversight of social media posts.
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Disinformation become more intractable.
US President Donald Trump’s anti-Semitic tweet on ‘Truth Social’ was shared over 11,000 times and received thousands of comments, according to the data from social media analysis firm Graphiq. Trump’s tweet claimed that he won the 2020 presidential vote in Wisconsin despite all evidence to the contrary. In May, Tesla CEO Elon Musk argued that…