Twitter workers flee after Elon Musk's "hardcore" ultimatum
Latest departures come after billionaire had already cut half of company's workforce and fired employees for voicing dissent.
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Latest departures come after billionaire had already cut half of company's workforce and fired employees for voicing dissent.
Twitter continued to bleed engineers and other workers on Thursday, after new owner Elon Musk gave them a choice to pledge to "hardcore" work or resign with severance pay.
"Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months," Musk tweeted after abruptly nixing new account verification system.
The announcement implied that anyone could get a blue check mark for $7.99 a month, just like celebrities.
Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the company, raising grave concerns about chaos enveloping the social media platform and its ability to fight disinformation just days ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
Elon Musk said Wednesday that Twitter will not allow anyone who has been kicked off the site to return until it sets up procedures on how to do that, a process that will take at least a few weeks.
Mastodon gained 10,801 new accounts the day after Musk took over Twitter, according to the Washington Post.
The billionaire took control of Twitter at the end of a long, legal battle.
Twitter users across the globe were reporting an outage on the social media service that started early Thursday morning and lasted for about an hour.
Twitter promised it would sue Tesla CEO Elon Musk to uphold the deal after he announced Friday he would abandon his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy the San Francisco-based company.
An appeals court ruled that a Florida law targeting social-media platforms unconstitutionally restricts the companies' First Amendment rights.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is all for Elon Musk taking over Twitter, but he isn't among the people courting the billionaire to move the company to Florida.
Florida's chief financial officer has begun an online campaign to get Elon Musk to move Twitter headquarters to Florida.
Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration tried to persuade a federal appeals court Thursday to undo a preliminary injunction that blocked a controversial law seeking to prevent social-media behemoths such as Twitter and Facebook from stripping politicians and other users from online platforms.
A federal judge in Miami has ruled that former President Donald Trump must pursue his lawsuit against Twitter in California, and not Florida.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' press secretary had her Twitter account temporarily suspended for alleged "harassing behavior."
Rebekah Jones, a former Florida Department of Health employee best known for her role in the state's COVID-19 dashboard rollout, has been suspended by Twitter.
After Twitter permanently removed former President Donald Trump from its site and social media platforms began slapping warnings on posts by other politicians, Republican state leaders are punching back.
A demonstration by supporters of President Donald Trump to protest his ban from the Twitter social media platform outside the company's San Francisco headquarters appeared to be a bust Monday morning.
A Florida teen is facing 30 felony charges for scamming people across America, and perpetrating the "Bit-Con" hack of prominent Twitter accounts including Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Elon Musk.
Twitter has flagged Florida Representative Matt Gaetz's post for "glorifying violence."
The battle between President Trump and Twitter heated up Thursday night after Twitter flagged one of the President's tweets as promoting violence. The tweet, with a historical connection to Miami, was about protests overnight in Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd's death while in police custody.
The Florida Bar disciplinary investigation will continue into a tweet sent by Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz about President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Racist and pornographic pictures were posted on the Mayor of Tampa's Twitter account along with a threat against the airport.
Threatening politicians is a disturbing norm this week.
Surveillance video from a nearby home showed a black car driving past before a person ran up to the unlocked vehicle and drove away.
The two-minute rendering, shared by Trump's son, Eric Trump, shows a towering glass skyscraper overlooking Biscayne Bay, with the name "Trump" illuminated near the top.
Town commissioners voted during an emergency meeting to suspend Town Manager David Lynch with pay, citing concerns over his handling of town finances.
Sarah Goguen contacted CBS News Miami after repeatedly asking property management for help and seeing no resolution to the problem.
Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he's "stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment" after pleading not guilty to charges including driving under the influence.
Surveillance video from a nearby home showed a black car driving past before a person ran up to the unlocked vehicle and drove away.
The two-minute rendering, shared by Trump's son, Eric Trump, shows a towering glass skyscraper overlooking Biscayne Bay, with the name "Trump" illuminated near the top.
Town commissioners voted during an emergency meeting to suspend Town Manager David Lynch with pay, citing concerns over his handling of town finances.
Sarah Goguen contacted CBS News Miami after repeatedly asking property management for help and seeing no resolution to the problem.
Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he's "stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment" after pleading not guilty to charges including driving under the influence.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom to replace the White House's East Wing,
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss blocked the Trump administration from enforcing provisions of his executive order that directed federal agencies to cut off funding to NPR and PBS.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado counselor who challenged a law banning conversion therapy for minors, ruling that lower courts failed to apply "sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny."
President Trump told CBS News that he is not ready "quite yet" to abandon efforts to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, despite a Truth Social post suggesting allies need to do it themselves.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine held a news conference at the Pentagon as gas prices in the U.S. continued to climb amid the ongoing war with Iran.
Emily Gregory describes the days following her upset victory in Tuesday's special election as "a little overwhelming, surreal, but exciting."
The Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery, located at 2200 NW 7th Avenue, would be a first-of-its-kind facility that could make a difference in the lives of countless people.
Wasserman Schultz pushed back against the suggestion that the United States was led into this war by Israel and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu.
In advance of the trial, CBS News Miami spoke to Miami Herald federal courts reporter Jay Weaver about what Rubio is expected to say when he takes the stand.
Critics of the bill argue that the attacks on the teacher unions are part of a broader education strategy that has slowly been unfolding for the past 30 years.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants the popular coffee chains to prove their surgery drinks are safe for teens and suggested the Trump administration could place limits on your cup of coffee.
Tests of dozens of baby formulas by Consumer Reports found that nearly half contained potentially dangerous chemicals.
A trial has been set in the San Francisco Bay Area for a Florida woman accused of providing a cosmetic injection that killed a woman who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Activists are calling for a nationwide boycott of Target stores following the company's decision to roll back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
A Las Vegas performer has sued Taylor Swift over the title of her hit album "The Life of a Showgirl," alleging it violates the performer's trademark.
The price hike raises the cost of the standard plan with ads by $1 per month and the cost of the standard and premium plans by $2.
Savannah Guthrie stepped back from her NBC duties almost two months ago when her mother, Nancy Guthrie, disappeared. The investigation is ongoing.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Local reports estimate that roughly 40,000 people gathered across central Seoul to watch K-pop band BTS reunite.