Tesla stock drops as concern about Elon Musk’s Twitter focus grows
Comment on this story Comment In the middle of an audio chat in part discussing the future of Twitter, CEO Elon Musk said he had to drop off. “I have…
Thursday Night Purge: Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Tons Of High Profile Journalists
from the today-i-settled-all-family-business dept Well. Just after finishing that last post about Twitter banning the official Mastodon account on Twitter for tweeting about the ElonJet tracking account existing on Mastodon,…
How a 1941 book explains Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” — Elon Musk’s self-styled exposé of the alleged excesses of the “woke” managers of Twitter before he bought it — there’s been…
Elon Musk’s Twitter enters its chaotic new multicolored check mark phase
It has taken several weeks longer than planned, but it appears that Elon Musk’s paid verification system has started to roll out for real this time. Some users can go…
What Elon Musk’s Twitter files don’t tell us
Conservatives have long accused Big Tech of being biased against them, without much evidence. Now, the “Twitter files,” a trove of internal Twitter documents, is providing new ammo for these…
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is building tunnels to nowhere
In late 2016, billionaire Elon Musk was sitting in traffic on West Los Angeles’s notoriously clogged 405 freeway while shuttling between one of his Bel Air mansions and SpaceX’s headquarters…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists
Liz Crokin, a popular QAnon influencer who boasts more than 100,000 followers on Telegram and hundreds of paid subscribers on Substack, wrote on Telegram that the emails implicate Dorsey in…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room at a meeting of Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent body…
Reliable insider says Twitter cut server orders by 80% after Musk’s acquisition
Elon Musk shared an outlandish goal for Twitter a few days ago, saying he wants his social network to reach 1 billion monthly users within 18 months. That’s an incredibly…
Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ offer a glimpse of the raw, complicated and thankless task of moderation • TechCrunch
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company, laboriously tweeted out by sympathetic amanuenses. But Musk’s obvious conviction that he has…