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Investors have claimed that Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk ran a pyramid scheme to boost the price of the popular Dogecoin cryptocurrency, and are suing Musk for $258 billion in damages.

Twitter took its algorithm open source this weekend, allowing users to trawl through the company’s formerly hidden code. In the process, new information about how Twitter’s blacklisting of users and topics has come to light.

Elon Musk’s Twitter has removed the verification badge from the official New York Times Twitter account, a move which came in the wake of the Times stating it would not pay $1,000 a month for verification on the platform.

A developer has discovered a U.S. government intervention option and other insights in Twitter’s recently open sourceed recommendation algorithm.

Conservative social media influencer Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, was convicted of election interference in the 2016 presidential race after posting a satirical meme on Twitter.

Billionaire NBA star LeBron James has announced that he is refusing to pay to $8 per month fee to maintain his blue check status on Twitter.

Remote work options are reportedly diminishing as companies shift power back to managers who are demanding employees work in-person.

Elon Musk’s Twitter locked the New York Post out of its account on Thursday after it posted a story about the social media platform deleting more than 5,000 tweets about the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN)’s upcoming “Trans Day of Vengeance.”

Former Seinfeld star Jason Alexander warned his Twitter followers Wednesday that he will leave the platform if he has to pay a nominal fee to maintain his blue check verification, which signals his account in fact belongs to his famous actor self.

Elon Musk’s Twitter has restricted accounts of prominent conservative politicians, journalists, and activists that are raising awareness about the fact that radical transgender activists called for a “Trans Day of Vengeance” ahead of the mass shooting at a Nashville Christian school, carried out by a woman who identified as transgender.

The IRS, not known for engaging in house calls, paid a visit to the home of Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi while he was giving testimony to Congress about the government’s efforts to control online discourse.

Elon Musk recently announced that soon Twitter will only suggest verified accounts and those that are subscribed to Twitter Blue on its “For You” feed. Additionally, users that pay Elon for verification will not be able to vote in polls, a popular feature on the platform.

A leaked memo from Twitter CEO Elon Musk has revealed that the company’s value has fallen by over $20 billion, less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it six months ago.

Elon Musk’s Twitter recently announced that it will soon end its legacy verification system and remove users’ blue checkmarks if they don’t pay for the Twitter Blue subscription service.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on Thursday was an “abject disaster” for TikTok, and even appeared to result in lawmakers announcing their support for banning the China-owned app, according to one former Politico writer, and many other verified users on Twitter seem to agree.

BBC presenter Emma Jones is a formidable force when discussing soccer, and, as it turns out, she’s a formidable force when dealing with Twitter trolls as well.

Former President Donald Trump will win reelection in a “landslide victory” if he is handcuffed and arrested next week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk predicted.

Facebook is rolling out its paid verification program for its main platform and Instagram accounts across the U.S. following successful testing of the program in Australia and New Zealand.

In the latest Twitter Files report published on Friday, journalist and author Matt Taibbi revealed that Twitter partnered with the Virality Project, which warned the social media platform that “true stories that could fuel hesitancy,” complained that “anti-vaccine” accounts were retweeting the CDC, and ironically ran searches for the term “surveillance state” while looking for more information to censor.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) asked about digital censorship of social media during a conference call regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

An anonymous pro-communist Youtuber and social media commentator suspected of being an operative of Cuban State Security published the address and home photos of a prominent Cuban exile community leader – an attempt, that leader says, to intimidate him into silence by threatening his family.

Sen. Ted Cruz is joining in on the House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee’s investigation into the Federal Trade Commission after a report released by the subcommittee last week revealed the agency may have engaged in a “harassment campaign” against Twitter.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and new owner of Twitter, recently stated that he is “open to the idea” of purchasing Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which U.S. regulators shut down Friday due to a run on deposits.

Mark Zuckerberg and his team at Facebook (now known as Meta) are reportedly considering developing a text-based, decentralized social media network that could compete with Elon Musk’s Twitter. The move is a surprise for Zuckerberg given how obsessed with the metaverse concept he has become.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) easily disproved a false allegation from Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) during a hearing of the new House Subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), slammed collusion between the federal government and Twitter to censor American citizens at a Judiciary Committee hearing today, calling particular attention to the collaboration between intelligence agencies and the social media platform.

Rancor broke out in the opening minutes of the Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the weaponization of the federal government after the committee’s top Democrat accused journalists of “threatening” Twitter employees.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s competition watchdog said Monday it was fining Twitter owner Elon Musk for taking over the social media platform without first seeking the watchdog’s permission.

BuzzFeed founder Ben Smith’s announcement last week that his Semafor “global news platform” would be partners with a Chinese Communist Party think tank is just the latest example of Beijing’s relentless attempts to gain influence over U.S. media. China has invested a great deal of money and effort in shaping American news content, although most of its past efforts were a bit more subtle than Semafor’s openly-declared symbiosis.

The FTC is going after journalists who were given access to the Twitter Files, demanding a list of names of journalists who Twitter granted access to, as part of the agency’s increasingly aggressive approach against the platform.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has apologized for mocking a disabled Twitter employee who he accused of doing “no actual work” and said was “the worst,” when the senior employee asked if he was still employed at the company after being locked out of his work accounts and devices.

Tuesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, blasted the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its investigation of Elon Musk and Twitter.

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who assumed the post only two months ago, held his first annual press conference on Tuesday at the “Two Sessions” of China’s rubber-stamp legislature and policy advisory committee.

A Twitter employee recently took to the platform to ask Elon Musk directly if he had been fired after being locked out of his work accounts and ignored by Twitter HR. After being left in the dark by his employer, Halli Thorleifsson went through a bizarre public exit interview with the company’s new CEO.

Elon Musk’s Twitter is reportedly coming under fire from Amazon for refusing to pay its $70 million bill for cloud servicess despite relying on Amazon Web Services for major parts of Twitter’s operations. Amazon is reportedly threatening to withhold advertising revenues from Musk’s platform in response. 

Populist French Senator Stéphane Ravier faces a criminal trial after publishing a tweet in January of last year in which he stated that “immigration kills the youth of France.”