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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Elon Musk has owned Twitter for just one week — though in all the turmoil, it has felt like a lifetime. From the firing of top executives “for cause,” to the restriction of employee access to content moderation tools, to right-wingers turning on the man they once believed to be …
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In a series of rapid changes to the Twitterverse, the company plans on emailing employees on Friday about whether they have been laid off and will temporarily close its offices, Reuters reported on Thursday. “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult …
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Kanye West returned to Twitter Wednesday night to send his first tweet since Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform — and prove that he hasn’t changed a bit. Weeks after his infamous “Death Con 3” tweet and subsequent activity resulted in his Twitter account being restricted, West returned …
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Trevor Noah took aim at Elon Musk’s plan to charge $8 a month for Twitter verification during the opening monologue of the latest episode of The Daily Show. “For months, Musk has said he wanted to own Twitter. The reason he wanted to own Twitter is because he wanted to …
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It’s been a rough year for big tech, what with all those plummeting stock prices and rising costs making people question whether they really need to pay for extra subscriptions. The big companies have to do what they can to survive, which is why it looks like both Tumblr and …
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