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We all saw this one coming, Elon Musk: Twitter users are buying the $8 verified checkmarks for their accounts to spread misinformation. On Wednesday, after Musk rolled out the new paid function for everyone to have access to a blue checkmark, dozens of accounts were suspended for spreading misinformation and …

All Doja Cat wants for Christmas this year is to be able to change her Twitter display. The musician updated her account name to “Christmas” before coming privy to Elon Musk‘s nonsensical new verification rules that ban verified accounts from making changes to their display that might suggest their intention …

Elon Musk‘s new vision for Twitter seems to be going swimmingly — if the plan was to immediately roll back his long-awaited double verification scheme and have the few employees he has left spend the past 24 hours battling an increasing tide of misinformation, that is. Twitter Blue is officially …

Liza Minnelli has officially outlived Twitter‘s nightmare of a double verification idea. First proposed by new overlord, excuse us, owner Elon Musk, double verification was an attempt by Musk to solve a problem he created in the first place. Early last week, Musk announced plans to charge everyone $8 a …

Nancy Pelosi spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday night in her first interview since her husband, Paul Pelosi, was brutally attacked. The House Speaker began the interview by saying she “absolutely” agreed with President Joe Biden, who tied the assault on her husband to the Jan. 6 insurrection. Pelosi also …

Elon Musk cast some doubt on his own declaration that comedy is now ‘legal” on Twitter after suspending several accounts — including those belonging to actual comedians Sarah Silverman and Kathy Griffin — for parodying him over the weekend. Taking advantage of these last fleeting days before a blue checkmark …

In a tweet that shocked absolutely no one, Elon Musk instructed his sycophants to vote Republican in the midterm elections. The man who took over a company and immediately fired its board of directors and half its staff argued to his followers that “shared power curbs the worst excesses of …

Elon Musk’s tenure as head of Twitter is off to the rockiest of starts —and Donald Trump is enjoying the carnage. In recent days, the former president has privately mocked Musk for the negative media coverage of his Twitter leadership, according to two sources familiar with the situation. Additionally, Trump …

Here’s how things stand at Twitter: Elon Musk has owned the website for a week and a day. Huge swaths of Twitter’s workforce —approximately 3,700 (or half of the company as indicated by leaked plans) – are set to be fired, and a class action lawsuit accusing Musk of violating …

Major civil rights organizations including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League are calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter. In a statement released Friday afternoon, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson wrote that “until [actions] are taken to make Twitter a safe space, corporations cannot in good conscience put their money …