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.
Tiger Woods' attorney and prosecutors are arguing about whether the golfer's prescription drug records should be handed over.
One of the victims suffered a laceration while jumping from a window to escape, officials say.
Heavy rain on Tuesday could help firefighters who are working to contain wildfires burning in South Florida.
An interactive wildfire map shows active fires burning in Broward and Miami-Dade as smoke impacts air quality and visibility across parts of South Florida.
Iran warns any new U.S. attacks will bring a "bad result," as President Trump acknowledges the ceasefire is faltering and violence flares in Lebanon.
Tiger Woods' attorney and prosecutors are arguing about whether the golfer's prescription drug records should be handed over.
One of the victims suffered a laceration while jumping from a window to escape, officials say.
Heavy rain on Tuesday could help firefighters who are working to contain wildfires burning in South Florida.
An interactive wildfire map shows active fires burning in Broward and Miami-Dade as smoke impacts air quality and visibility across parts of South Florida.
Participants in the program take part in community service and character-building programs, helping them grow and give back.
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.
Trade, Taiwan and tensions with Iran are surefire topics for President Trump's meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Justice Samuel Alito extended an administrative stay that maintained access to mifepristone through the mail.
Marty Makary has served as Food and Drug Administration commissioner since March 2025.
President Trump made the comments in a phone interview with CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes.
Allen is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump, assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon and two gun counts.
CBS News Miami has confirmed from multiple sources that the Miami Dade State Attorney's office is investigating A3.
State Senator Rosalind Osgood is urging Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida's 22nd Congressional district.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
The head of the World Health Organization says "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
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.
"The Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.