Twitter has once again delayed the launch of its Twitter Blue subscription service, which allows users to purchase a verified badge for $8 per month as owner Elon Musk continues his public feud with Apple over its 30 percent in-app purchase fees.
Elon Musk claimed in a recent tweet that Twitter has “failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections.” Musk, the new owner of the platform, has promised to release internal documents to restore public trust in the company.
In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal outlines how Twitter owner Elon Musk’s Boring Company, a tunnel-building organization that made waves by hyping the idea of solving big city traffic snarls, appears to have abandoned a number of proposed projects with cities across the country.
A new report reveals that Apple was Twitter’s biggest advertiser in Q1 2022, accounting for almost $50 million in revenue. Elon Musk now claims Tim Cook’s company has “mostly stopped advertising” on Twitter, a move that comes during the busy holiday shopping season. The loss of such a major customer could be a problem for Musk’s Twitter before even taking into account Apple’s threat to drop the platform from the App Store.
Chinese bots are spamming Twitter with posts primarily of porn and escorts in an attempt to stop the spread of news about massive protests against coronavirus lockdowns across the country. The spam operation is evidence of more problems for Elon Musk, with one former employee stating, “All the China influence operations and analysts at Twitter all resigned.”
Twitter owner Elon Musk said today that Apple has threatened to suspend the platform from its app store, threatening “war” against the hardware company in subsequent tweets.
Earlier this year Twitter revealed that the private data of 5.4 million users was stolen due to an API vulnerability — now the data leaked before Elon Musk took the company private has been exposed on a hacker forum, according to a recent report.
According to new research shared exclusively with Gizmodo, there are thousands of bots pretending to be Apple users browsing the web and looking at advertisements. The bots cost advertisers $65 million in wasted ads that never reach human users.
More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on Elon Musk’s platform in the past two weeks, according to a recent analysis by the Washington Post.
Amazon workers around the world are reportedly planning to strike during Black Friday, one of the e-commerce giant’s business time periods, demanding that the company “pays fairly and ceases awful, unsafe practices.” Thousands have reportedly already walked out in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed this week that he plans to grant “amnesty” for blacklisted accounts on the platform. Musk says the amnesty will be for users that had not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam,” which may mean that many conservatives unfairly banned will be restored to the platform.
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, said the company may release internal discussions related to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop from hell story, saying it is necessary to restore public trust.
The National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHTSA) is investigating two more fatal crashes involving Tesla’s electric car last month.
Tech giant Amazon is gutting the internal team developing its Alexa home voice assistant, according to recent reports. One former employee calls Alexa a “colossal failure of imagination,” adding “it was a wasted opportunity.”
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former FTX CEO who Elon Musk mocked via Twitter, is actually a partial owner of Twitter thanks to an offer from Musk, according to Semafor. SBF reportedly rolled his $100 million investment in Twitter stock into an ownership stake in Musk’s private company, a claim that Musk disputes. Despite allegedly taking SBF’s money, Musk claimed that when he met Bankman-Fried earlier this year, his “bullshit meter was redlining.”
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, is planning to add a range of features to the platform over the next year, according to details from a meeting with employees obtained by the Verge.
Twitter owner Elon Musk recently posted a video to the platform after discovering an entire closet full of leftist #STAYWOKE t-shirts. Musk also tweeted that “‘Hands up don’t shoot’ was made up,” but deleted the tweet after facing outrage from BLM supporters.
China-owned TikTok is Chinese surveillance and psyops thinly veiled as a social media platform that FCC Brendan Carr has labeled “China’s digital fentanyl.” It is time for lawmakers to stop ignoring the giant panda in the room and ban the platform from this country before China is able to do even more damage to America’s youth — and its elections.
Leftist media appear to be weaponizing “disability communities” against Twitter boss Elon Musk by suddenly claiming to be concerned that disabled people could lose their social media”lifeline” due to changes made to the platform by Musk, who officially completed his takeover of the company in October.
Tesla’s market capitalization has reportedly plummeted from over $1.2 trillion to $530 billion in the past year alone. The $760 billion loss is the equivalent to triple the entire market cap of The Walt Disney Company
Twitter owner Eon Musk has said that after firing almost two-thirds of Twiter’s 7,500-person workforce over the past three weeks and decimating the company’s contract workforce, the company is now hiring again with an emphasis on coders. Musk didn’t comment on if he would rehire any workers impacted by layoffs if they learned to code.
Rapper and former fashion mogul Kanye West has begun tweeting again after a nearly month-long silence that began with Twitter removing a November 4 tweet in which he used the N-word. After a test tweet, West posted “Shalom : ).”
Twitter owner Elon Musk recently doubled down on his refusal to allow InfoWars host Alex Jones back on the platform, blaming the broadcaster’s comments about the Sandy Hook shooting for his permanent ban.
According to a recent report, Twitter owner Elon Musk is considering laying off even more of Twitter’s workforce, this time focusing on the company’s sales and partnerships division.
Project Veritas, the undercover journalism organization that has become a leading outlet for anti-establishment whistleblowers, has been reinstated by Elon Musk’s Twitter amid a wave of reinstatements for prominent conservatives.
Yoel Roth, the rabidly anti-Trump former Twitter employee who briefly served as the site’s top censor, has penned an article for the New York Times explaining how a coalition of regulators and corporate interests can prevent Elon Musk from fully restoring free speech on the platform.
Facebook will remove the option for users to share their religious views, political views, and sexual preferences in their profile, a change that will go into effect at the start of December.
Former President Trump’s Twitter account has been restored to Twitter following a record-breaking poll by new owner Elon Musk, but Trump says he won’t be returning. Trump said, “Truth Social has been very, very powerful, very, very strong, and I’ll be staying there.”
Today Elon Musk announced that Twitter’s new policy is “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,” then explaining that the platform would be using the same shadowbanning system that has unfairly affected conservatives and has been criticized for years. Musk also announced that the Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Kathy Griffin had been restored to the platform, but that the “Trump decision has not yet been made.”
Twitter offices were shut down on Thursday after hundreds of employees resigned from the company, refusing to comply with Elon Musk’s demands for an “extremely hardcore” reset of the company.
Google-owned YouTube is censoring a former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer who made videos showcasing the questioning of election results from both Democrats and Republicans, first censoring both videos, then allowing the Democrat claims to stay up while taking down the video containing GOP claims.
Facebook has reportedly terminated or reprimanded more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year for allegedly accepting bribes in return for improperly accessing user accounts.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk testified this week in a shareholder lawsuit that challenges his massive compensation package from the electric car giant. The lawsuit calls Musk a “part-time CEO” and alleges he was able to influence the company’s board of directors, claiming few if any directors are actually independent of Musk.
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. needs to take “aggressive action” to reduce costs and cut down its headcount according to activist investor TCI Fund Management.
Twitter employees were told by their new boss Elon Musk this week that they had two options — commit to his “hardcore” vision for Twitter or leave the company.
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, founded by disgraced crypto CEO and Democrat super donor Sam Bankman-Fried, could owe money to more than one million people and organizations, according to documents filed in bankruptcy court this week.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said he is “extremely concerned” about China-owned TikTok, and warned lawmakers on Tuesday that allowing the Chinese app to continue operating in the United States could be a national security threat.
Amazon plans to cut approximately 10,000 workers starting as soon as this week according to reports.
Self-described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk fired a Twitter engineer via a tweet after his former employee disagreed with him about the company’s app performance on Android smartphones.
Google is set to pay $391 million in a privacy settlement after 40 states accused the tech giant of tracking the location of users who opted out of the location services on their devices.
