Shortly after Musk's acquisition, researchers discovered that the usage of racial slurs on Twitter were up as much as 500 percent. Musk also mocked the "Stay Woke" T-shirts printed up under former CEO Jack Dorsey's reign in order to show the company's support for Black Lives Matter. ...
Within hours, Twitter was flooded by fake yet verified accounts impersonating celebrities, major companies and even Musk himself. Musk swiftly backtracked, but many advertisers fled the site, denying Twitter a major source of income that the CEO is struggling to replace. For now, blue checks of...
Paulo Figueiredo Filho, a political analyst who often defends Bolsonaro on social media and is also the grandson of the military dictatorship’s final president, tweeted that Twitter has become a strict and spontaneous censor. “Your moderators are currently being more dictatorial than our own courts...
Within hours, Twitter was flooded by fake yet verified accounts impersonating celebrities, major companies and even Musk himself. Musk swiftly backtracked, but many advertisers fled the site, denying Twitter a major source of income that the CEO is struggling to replace. For now, blue checks of...
On the eve of the most hotly contested Turkish election in two decades, Twitter moved to block some posts in the country in what critics argue is a capitulation to a call for censorship from Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . “In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter ...
Elon Musk launched a tweetstorm defending his position as a Trump adviserChris SnyderJessica Orwig
"TikTok has a lot of very high usage (but) I often hear people say, 'Well, I spent two hours on TikTok, but I regret those two hours,'" Musk said. "We don't want that to be the case with Twitter." TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, did not immediately respond to a req...
Twitter/Maye Musk The problem for Mother Musk is that the account she was responding to was fake, and the entire thing appears to have been a hoax. The account that posted the tweet had the username @newypost. Its display name was “New York Post” and it used the logo from the news...