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There are more electric vehicles on the road.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said it’s possible to increase the number of electric vehicles in the world. He further said that it’s possible to increase the number of electric vehicles by having more charging points at home, adding that he had to shut his plant in California due to high costs. He said that…
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The company is called Musk’s company.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk in a letter to the US President Donald Trump said that Twitter is a “keyhole to what the future of social media will look like” if he becomes its CEO. The letter addressed Twitter’s advertisers who have raised concerns over Musk’s plans to promote free speech by cutting back on moderating…
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Musk was turned into a Trump phenomenon.
Amid a controversy over Twitter’s policies, a report has claimed the micro-blogging platform would not be able to enforce Elon Musk’s new policies announced this week. Davisson said Twitter has gutted its moderation staff and will not be able to enforce Musk’s new policies in a way that covers all users. This comes after Musk…
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It was not the reason for the ban.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that he plans to introduce an option to allow users to determine if the company has limited how many other users can view their posts. Users would also be able to determine if Twitter has suspended or banned their accounts. Earlier, Twitter had said it will offer “general amnesty”…
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A chaotic day brings the micro-messaging service closer to failure.
Activist Angelo Carusone, President of Media Matters for America, said Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk’s view of the social media platform will be “a keyhole view of what Twitter under Musk will look like”. “Look at alternative platforms such as Parler, Gab and Truth Social that promise fewer restrictions on speech,” he added. Carusone’s comments…
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CNN, WaPo and NYT were banned by Musk without explanation.
Twitter has deleted an account that shared the flight-tracking information of Elon Musk’s private jet, hours after he had removed it. The account, ‘elonjet flight-tracking’, was created by a 19-year-old college student named Jack Sweeney who claimed to be working on his Master’s degree. He threatened to take legal action against the student and “organisations…
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The press has been censured by Musk.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the new CEO of Twitter “must like pain a lot” to run a company that “has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy”. He further said that someone with Musk’s knowledge and experience would be a good choice for Twitter CEO. Earlier, Musk had said he would reverse the…
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How to “Quiet quit” on social media.
After advertisers called for a boycott of Twitter, the head of liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America Angelo Carusone said, “For akeyhole view of what Twitter under Musk will look like, just look at alternative platforms like Parler, Gab and Truth Social that promise fewer restrictions on speech.” This comes after Tesla CEO Elon…
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Several journalists have their suspension lifted by the site, in spite of a rift between it and the media.
Twitter has told a US court that its own data scientists showed that Elon Musk’s own data scientists confirmed Twitter’s estimates on how many human users versus spam accounts are on the platform. Musk had accused Twitter of fraud in an August legal filing, claims that there were more bots on the platform than the…
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There is a Need for Speed put in Peril by the person who created it.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk will hold an employees’ meeting on Friday, where he’ll share more about his plan for the platform, media reports said. This comes after several employees complained about the ad load reduction in the Twitter app by half. Earlier this month, Musk had announced Twitter would suspend some accounts if their purpose…
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The Twitter Files is being used by Musk to push conspiracy theories.
Twitter’s filing said authorities are looking into CEO Elon Musk’s “conduct” linked to his deal to buy the micro-blogging platform. It added that authorities are also looking into the company’s “corporate social responsibility (CSR), product safety and information security program”. However, Twitter added that authorities are still investigating Musk’s behaviour connected to the deal.
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Several journalists are suspended for sharing information about Musk’s jet.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said that he wanted to buy Twitter and put ex-US President Donald Trump back on the platform because he’s a “free speech absolutist”. “My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that’s a direct personal safety risk,” he added. Twitter permanently suspended…
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Researchers think that the takeover by Musk might change the site.
Elon Musk has announced that he will be stepping down as the CEO of Twitter after three years. Musk, who took over as Twitter CEO in November last year, had earlier said that he will become the CEO of aerospace startup SpaceX, which he co-founded in 2013. He has also been the CEO of Tesla…
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Musk may have violated the consent order.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that he plans to introduce an option to allow users to determine if Twitter has limited how many other users can view their posts. He added, “I am working on it…I think it will be done in the next month.” This will give users the option to check whether…
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The Trust and Safety Council was dissolved by Musk.
For a “keyhole view of what Twitter under Musk will look like”, just look at alternative platforms like Parler, Gab and Truth Social that promise fewer restrictions on speech, Angelo Carusone, President of media watchdog group Media Matters for America, said. He added that researchers will be launching studies comparing Twitter before and after Elon…
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I’m done with the social networking site.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said he has lifted the suspensions of some high-profile journalists from the platform, including BBC’s Nick Paton Walsh, who were suspended last week. However, he didn’t reveal the journalists’ real-time location. Earlier, a poll asked if Musk should “Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time”. Over 58.7%…
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CNN, NYT and WaPo journalists were banned by Musk on his social media accounts.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Twitter’s decision to restore banned accounts of former US President Donald Trump and other users is not a way to “make money”. “This isn’t a way to make money,” he added. Musk earlier said the decision was made due to a “huge drop in revenue” that Twitter has…
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Musk has sold 22 million of his Tesla shares for billions of dollars.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is buying Twitter in a deal valued at about $4 billion, will reportedly keep Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Musk and Twitter had first announced their plans to sell the platform in June, with Musk saying that he wanted to buy Twitter for the second time in his career. Twitter was…
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The account tracking Musk’s flights was banned, then came back and was banned again.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk had earlier said that the company’s new policy would be “freedom of speech and not freedom of reach”. This comes after he announced a “general amnesty” for accounts that have been suspended by the company. Musk had earlier defended the decision saying it was taken “in part” to ensure that “people…
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The account of West was locked for anti-Semitic comments.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has suspended several high-profile journalists who cover the billionaire and his chaotic leadership of Twitter. Musk said that he would reverse the ban if he was to become the company’s owner, vowing to reverse the ban were he to become the company’s owner. Several users reported that the platform began intervening…
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Musk said a new feature will flag shadowbanning.
After his Twitter account was suspended by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, New York Times’ Ryan Mac said that Twitter’s actions could intimidate journalists who cover the companies owned by Musk. “We’re not just journalists. We’re global journalists,” he said. Earlier, Twitter removed the account of an Australian journalist who covered the fallout from Donald Trump’s…
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The texts were released before the trial.
Several Twitter employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the social media company over Elon Musk’s decision to fire them. The lawsuit alleged that the firings are in violation of labour law. Another group of employees is filing a lawsuit over Twitter’s decision to fire them if they didn’t confirm that they would get the…
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The C-suite clears out as the power is handed over to Musk.
Tesla’s Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday held a town hall meeting with Tesla employees for the first time after announcing he plans to buy the company. “I think it’s critical that we do everything in our power to make this happen, and I have no doubt that we’re going to do that,” Musk…
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The deal was finalized between Musk and the company.
Several Twitter employees have shared internal emails detailing Twitter’s decision to block a New York Post story about former US Vice President Hunter Biden and his laptop. In the emails, one of the employees told colleagues that Twitter CEO Elon Musk was considering putting responsibility for certifying FTC compliance onto individual engineers at the company.
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The price of the blue is higher for iPhone users.
Billionaire Elon Musk has said that Twitter’s ‘Twitter Blue’ checkmark will be permanently suspended for handles who engage in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody”. Users will also be given the option to switch to ‘gold’ for companies, ‘grey’ for governments or ‘blue’ for celebrities, he added. The move comes a day after Twitter launched iOS…