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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Twitter, which was officially acquired by Elon Musk last week, has frozen access to content moderation tools for all but a handful of employees, Bloomberg reports. As the U.S. election nears, this may hamper the staff’s ability to prevent misinformation. The news follows a string of company upheavals that have …
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Elon Musk has been busy since he took the reins at Twitter on Oct. 27. Just before it was official, he brought a sink to HQ, then he fired some top executives, and made plans to layoff more staff. He also tweeted his changes to Twitter Blue, including the addition …
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Elon Musk is readying to layoff employees at Twitter, according to four sources who spoke with The New York Times. Some may lose their positions as soon as this weekend per the report. He has already fired several executives according to Washington Post, including CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer …
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Weekend Update tackled Elon Musk’s completed purchase of Twitter, the Pennsylvania Senate debates and companies cutting ties with Kanye West on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. “This week, Elon Musk officially bought Twitter for $44 billion, beating out the next highest offer of zero dollars,” Colin Jost said …
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Elon Musk took the reins of Twitter on Thursday as he closed his $44 billion deal to take control of the mega social media company, the Washington Post reports. His first topic on the agenda was to fire several Twitter executives, according to three people who spoke with the Post …
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Not long after Elon Musk announced he was buying Twitter (and before he tried to back out of it), some of the platform’s famously banned figures, like controversial congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, started daydreaming of a possible return to the platform. Musk hadn’t explicitly said …
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As Elon Musk’s Twitter deal comes to a close, the self-anointed “Chief Twit” posted an open letter to advertisers promising that the social media platform won’t become a “free-for-all hellscape” once he officially takes the reins. “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of …
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Elon Musk, following his failed effort to back out of, or ostensibly get a better price on, his deal to buy Twitter unofficially commenced his reign by… entering Twitter headquarters with a sink? The bit was, we guess, tied to the accompanying caption, “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink …
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The old maxim “never tweet” was rarely more applicable than when a woman named Daisey Beaton chose to express the joy of sharing coffee and conversation each morning with her husband in their garden. They “sit and talk for hours,” she wrote, concluding, “love him so much.” A sweet sentiment, …
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