from the musk-is-gonna-musk dept Shortly following Elon took around Twitter and fired everyone, we questioned (to some degree jokingly) if there was any person still left at the corporation who was mindful of the FTC’s consent decree with the corporation, signed at first in 2011, but which runs for 30 […]
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Elon Musk announced he’s stepping down as the CEO of Twitter
It took over 40 hours, but Elon Musk has finally acknowledged the results of a public poll he ran calling for him to step down as CEO of Twitter. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” Musk tweeted on Tuesday […]
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 conservatives. Twitter’s new CEO, Elon Musk, has released the files to journalists Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi, who, like him, […]
Elon Musk is making Twitter a less friendly place for journalists. But they’re still not quitting.
As Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk has been openly hostile toward “mainstream media” journalists. He has said he plans to strip journalists of their verification check mark badges, mocked major media outlets like the New York Times and CNN, and allowed thousands of formerly suspended accounts back on […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk keeps changing his mind. We’re keeping track.
Since Elon Musk first offered to buy Twitter this spring, it appears that the billionaire has had a very hard time deciding just what to do with it. It seems as though every time he makes a grand pronouncement about the social media platform, he ends up walking it back. […]