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.
Francisco Lara was arrested after his foster son was found alone in underwear near traffic.
More than 100 families heard candidates make their cases ahead of the August primary.
Kyle Stowers homered for the second straight night Friday, powering the Marlins to a 5-2 win over the Mets.
FIFA is shelving a controversial plan that would have allowed for billions of dollars in private commercial investment in the World Cup after the proposal was met with fierce opposition from its member nations.
The Urrutia family says warning software failed before the crash that killed 23-year-old Ezekiel Urrutia in January 2025.
Francisco Lara was arrested after his foster son was found alone in underwear near traffic.
More than 100 families heard candidates make their cases ahead of the August primary.
Kyle Stowers homered for the second straight night Friday, powering the Marlins to a 5-2 win over the Mets.
FIFA is shelving a controversial plan that would have allowed for billions of dollars in private commercial investment in the World Cup after the proposal was met with fierce opposition from its member nations.
The Urrutia family says warning software failed before the crash that killed 23-year-old Ezekiel Urrutia in January 2025.
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.
The U.S. and Israel plan to hit Iran's energy infrastructure as soon as this weekend, although no final decision has been made, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
The Department of Justice in June issued a legal opinion saying states aren't required to provide services that help people with disabilities remain in their homes.
President Trump said Hamas and his international "Board of Peace" have agreed on the next steps in a peace deal that includes Hamas' disarmament in the Gaza Strip.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Dr. Erica Schwartz would become the 22nd director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CBS News has learned that four of the nation's largest Latino civic organizations are joining forces for the first time, combining their voter outreach operations ahead of the crucial 2026 midterms.
As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation
CBS Miami's Jim DeFede spoke to former Republican State Senator Jeff Brandes, president of the Florida Policy Project, who is behind one of those lawsuits.
The sordid life of Fabian Basabe is one CBS Miami first began covering on this show three years ago.
Larkin spoke this week to CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede.
Dotie Joseph said after talking with neighbors and looking at the field, she thinks she has plenty of experience to assume the governorship.
Since May, more than 11,000 cases of illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have been reported in 41 states. This comes after the Trump administration drastically cut FDA and CDC staff, prompting one expert to call this summer's outbreaks "a national wake-up call."
The case accuses OpenAI of practicing medicine without a license and failing to safeguard users seeking health advice.
Taylor Farms said none of its branded salads or kits contain the iceberg lettuce associated with the outbreak.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Officials are still searching for the source of the outbreak, prompting consumers to seek advice on social media about which foods to avoid.
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.
Four women say Hollywood star Jared Leto committed sexual crimes against them when they were teenagers, in interviews with the BBC.
Carly Simon, the singer known for 1970s hits like "You're So Vain," announced she has Parkinson's disease and also was treated for basal cell carcinoma.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.
Tenisha Warner sat down for an exclusive interview with "CBS Mornings" before a lawsuit over her late husband's estate became public, and discussed her grief and raising her daughter alone.
A lawyer says influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom.