Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said the FCC has no ability to block the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk, according to a statement posted to Twitter. In the tweet, Carr called a release from the Open Market Institute that asked the FCC, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Justice … Read more
A video circulating online purports to show a white powder on the desk of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a conference call with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. But the video, shared widely by pro-Russia accounts, is nothing more than disinformation. The footage went viral on Monday after being posted to TikTok, where users viewed the … Read more
“Twitter has tremendous potential. I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it,” he continued. It seems like the changes Elon had in mind would open the platform to a wider array of voices. This could mean that certain people have been banned from Twitter will return, and … Read more
Elon Musk has long been a vocal Twitter user, and offering to purchase the app hasn’t slowed him down one bit. The only difference is that now, instead of being an aggrieved, but powerful, user, his posts have the potential to shape policy down the line. Over the past week, Musk repeatedly stated his beliefs … Read more
Twitter users want to find out why it appears as if right-wing users are experiencing a surge in new followers while left-wing users are seeing the opposite. In a thread on Tuesday, software developer Christopher Bouzy shared statistics suggesting that users had either lost or gained followers based on their political leanings. “Over the past … Read more
In response to Elon’s purchase, a press release explained: “The purchase price represents a 38 percent premium to Twitter’s closing stock price on April 1, 2022, which was the last trading day before Mr. Musk disclosed his approximately 9 percent stake in Twitter.” Elon essentially purchased every share of the company for roughly $44 billion … Read more
In the wake of Elon Musk striking a deal to buy Twitter, some users are noticing a drop in their follower counts, suggesting that a significant number of accounts were recently deleted. Does this mean that people are already leaving Twitter in reaction to Elon Musk, or is it just a coincidence? Musk’s takeover immediately … Read more
Getty Image/Derrick Rossignol Elon Musk actually did it: After some roadblocks, the SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and Boring Company billionaire actually bought Twitter yesterday, for about $44 billion. As the world reacted to the news, so too did Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey. He first did so by digging into the Radiohead archives and … Read more
On Monday, Twitter announced that Elon Musk is buying the company for $44 billion and plans to take it private. The news sparked a firestorm of reactions. Many fear that under Musk’s leadership Twitter will become a cesspool of hate speech, disinformation, and harassment. Conversely, people who’ve been permanently suspended from Twitter are celebrating. They … Read more
Getty Image Truth Social, the social media platform soft-launched in February by Donald Trump, has not, to it lightly, been a hit. Despite his staff’s attempts to spin it as somehow a win, it’s not. No one uses, not even the former president that owns it. That’s fine, because if people were using it, they’d … Read more
Getty Image Earlier this month, Elon Musk started flexing his billionaire wallet with a bid (to buy Twitter) that didn’t immediately go well. All appeared to be shut down, and amid news that Hulu will soon premiere a New York Times exposé about Tesla autopilot crashes, Elon got what he wanted from social media. CNN … Read more
Twitter invited Musk to join the company’s board of directors, in what looked like an attempt to mollify him, only for him to reject their offer. On April 14, Musk announced his intention to acquire Twitter outright and take it public. In an SEC filing, Musk said the company had “extraordinary potential” but that he … Read more