Tech analysts stumped by Elon Musk's erratic Twitter management moves
KPIX 5's Devin Fehely spoke with CNET executive editor Ian Sherr about the baffling executive actions the new Twitter owner Elon Musk has taken. (12-18-22)
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KPIX 5's Devin Fehely spoke with CNET executive editor Ian Sherr about the baffling executive actions the new Twitter owner Elon Musk has taken. (12-18-22)
Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including what the company described Sunday as "prohibited platforms" Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.
The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz became the latest journalist to be banned from Twitter, following the recent wave of suspensions by CEO Elon Musk.
Musk tweeted late Friday that the company would lift the suspensions following the results of a public poll on the site.
The company hasn't explained why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and past tweets disappear.
A group of former employees suing Elon Musk's Twitter scored an early win Wednesday when a judge ordered the company to inform any laid-off staffers of the pending lawsuit.
A former Twitter manager was sentenced Wednesday to 3 ½ years in prison for spying and funneling private information about dissidents to the Saudi Royal family.
The advisory group of around 100 independent organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide and other problems on the platform.
Dave Chappelle asked the crowd at his comedy show to "make some noise for the world's richest man." They did. Lots of booing.
"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," the Twitter CEO wrote on Sunday.
"It saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world," the award-winning artist posted.
On Thursday, Elon Musk dropped to the second spot on Forbes' list of "Real-Time Billionaires," putting the Twitter and Tesla CEO behind Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury brand LVMH.
Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees.
Twitter could be in trouble for turning part of its offices into a place for employees to crash.
Janitors at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco walked off the job on Monday, citing unfair labor practices.
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Monday that he is deactivating his office's Twitter account, citing the hate speech that exploded on the platform following Elon Musk's takeover.
Elizabeth Cook reports on three former Twitter employees filing a lawsuit against Elon Musk and the company (12-5-2022)
The man behind cutting-edge companies Tesla and SpaceX recently bought Twitter for $44 billion. What followed has been a chaotic period for the social media platform (and its advertisers), as the modern-day "town square" has been shaken to its core.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Defamation League both said in reports that the volume of hate speech on Twitter has grown dramatically under Musk's stewardship.
The billionaire owner of the social media service said the rapper "again violated our rule against incitement to violence."
Twitter said it will no longer enforce its longstanding COVID misinformation policy, yet another sign of how Elon Musk plans to transform the social media company he bought a month ago.
State. Sen Scott Wiener has been the target of attacks, including an anti-LGBTQ slur, by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right lawmaker who has recently been allowed back on Twitter. Itay Hod reports. (11/28/22)
Elon Musk on Monday claimed that Apple has "threatened" to pull Twitter from its iOS app store, a move that could be devastating to the company Musk just acquired for $44 billion.
Just 50 Twitter advertisers have spent nearly $2 billion since 2020, and all seem to have stopped, according to new report.
A month after he bought Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting "amnesty" for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
