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After Period of Silence, Elon Musk Is Tweeting Again
Elon Musk Says He'll
Resign as Twitter CEO
UPDATED
Dec 20, 2022 8:38 PM CST

Elon Musk Says He'll Resign as Twitter CEO

He says it'll happen 'as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job'

(Newser) - After a period of uncertainty, Elon Musk has confirmed that he plans to abide by the results of a poll that asked whether he should step down as Twitter CEO, which ended with 57.5% in favor of resignation. "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find...

Twitter Poll Wants Musk Out as CEO. He Promised to Abide

Most users want him to step down

(Newser) - Should Elon Musk step down as CEO of Twitter? He commissioned a new poll of users asking that question and promised to abide by the results. By Monday morning, the results were in: The majority of the approximately 17 million voters called for him to step down, 57.5% to...

Twitter Disallows Links to Instagram, Other Rivals
Twitter (Briefly) Disallows
Promotion of Rivals
UPDATED
Dec 18, 2022 5:15 PM CST

Twitter (Briefly) Disallows Promotion of Rivals

New policy is deleted, replaced with a poll asking users their opinion on it

(Newser) - Once again, a new Twitter policy has been swiftly rescinded. On Sunday, the platform said it would no longer let users promote accounts on rival platforms. But after what CNN describes as an "immense backlash," Twitter removed the blog post and tweet thread announcing the new policy. Instead,...

Musk Goes Back to Twitter Investors
Musk Goes Back
to Twitter Investors
Dec 17, 2022 2:05 PM CST

Musk Goes Back to Twitter Investors

Proposal for another round of funding again is based on a $44 billion valuation

(Newser) - Elon Musk has made investors an offer they might be able to refuse: Buy more shares of Twitter at $54.20, the price he paid in October when he took over the company—though the billionaire has since conceded he overpaid. A Tesla investor who said he chipped in less...

Musk Lets Journos Out of Twitter Jail, but EU, UN Are Ticked

United Nations calls the bans a 'dangerous precedent'; EU threatens sanctions

(Newser) - "The people have spoken." That was Elon Musk's overnight tweet on Friday announcing the results of his most recent poll, which asked his followers when to unsuspend the various reporters Twitter suspended earlier in the week for what Musk claims was real-time "doxxing" on his location....

Twitter Abruptly Suspends Numerous Tech Journalists

Musk claims they violated new policy on revealing locations

(Newser) - Elon Musk's claims to be a "free speech absolutist" were questioned once again Thursday night when Twitter abruptly suspended the accounts of numerous journalists who had been reporting on the CEO, including tech journalists from the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and Mashable. Musk claimed they...

Twitter Suspends Account Musk Said He Wouldn&#39;t Ban
After Suspending @ElonJet,
Musk Tweets New Rules
UPDATED
Dec 15, 2022 12:51 AM CST

After Suspending @ElonJet, Musk Tweets New Rules

Account tracked billionaire's private jet

(Newser) - After the @ElonJet account was banned by Twitter, it was briefly reinstated, only to be banned again. The account of Jack Sweeney, @ElonJet's creator, and dozens of other accounts he operated, all remained banned Wednesday night, the Verge reports. After the accounts went dark, Elon Musk tweeted what are...

Twitter HQ Shedding Assets, Including Blue Bird Statue
Twitter Is Having a Fire Sale
Dec 14, 2022 2:25 PM CST

Twitter Is Having a Fire Sale

Now's the time to get your 3-foot statue of a blue bird logo

(Newser) - Twitter isn't just shedding workers, but also the stuff they used, from flat-screen TVs to espresso machines. Hundreds of "surplus corporate office assets" from Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco—where conference rooms have reportedly been turned into bedrooms —will be sold in a January auction organized...

Fauci: Twitter 'Almost a Cesspool of Misinformation'

He addresses Elon Musk's prosecution comment

(Newser) - Anthony Fauci addressed Elon Musk's Sunday tweets about him, telling CNN commentator David Axelrod in a podcast interview, "I don't respond to him." Fauci continued, "I don’t pay any attention to him because that’s merely a distraction. And if you get drawn into...

Musk Is No Longer the World's Richest Man

His net worth has fallen more than $120B this year

(Newser) - When Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter in April, he said it wasn't about making money—and the acquisition definitely hasn't made him richer. After a steep decline in the value of Tesla stock, which accounts for most of his wealth, Musk is no longer the...

Twitter's Former Top Safety Exec Forced to Flee His Home

Meanwhile, social media company ditches its Trust and Safety Council

(Newser) - Less than an hour before a scheduled meeting between Twitter execs and the social network's Trust and Safety Council, the council was abruptly dissolved Monday night. "As Twitter moves into a new phase, we are re-evaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development...

Elon Musk Hears the Boos at Dave Chapelle Show
Elon Musk: That Booing
'Is a First for Me'
update
Dec 12, 2022 1:39 PM CST

Elon Musk: That Booing 'Is a First for Me'

Dave Chapelle brings him up on stage, and much of the crowd lets him have it

(Newser) - (This story has been updated with reaction from Elon Musk.) It could be a pop-culture thought experiment: Would fans of one divisive figure, Dave Chapelle , embrace the even more divisive figure of Elon Musk? As it turns out, not so much. As Gizmodo reports, Chapelle brought Musk up on...

Apple Users Get Hit With Surcharge for Twitter Blue

Blue check mark system is back, but some will be paying more than others

(Newser) - Twitter's blue check-mark system under Elon Musk didn't go so well when it was launched last month, thanks to a proliferation of phony accounts, and it was suspended almost as soon as it began. Now it looks like the paid subscription program is coming back, though some people...

Women's Lawsuit Accuses Twitter of Bias in Layoffs

57% of female employees and 47% of male workers lost jobs, filing says

(Newser) - Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees. The discrimination lawsuit is the latest legal challenge over Musk's decimation of Twitter's workforce through mass...

At Twitter HQ, 'Yet Another Unspoken Sign of Disrespect'

City of San Francisco is investigating complaint there are now makeshift bedrooms at Twitter HQ

(Newser) - Those still employed by Twitter who work out of the company's San Francisco headquarters are said to have found quite a surprise at work on Monday: conference rooms that had been converted into "modest bedrooms featuring unmade mattresses [and] drab curtains," an apparent hint that the staffers...

A Huge District Attorney's Office Just Exited Twitter

California DA cites rising hate speech

(Newser) - Citing rising hate speech on Twitter following Elon Musk's purchase of the platform, a California district attorney's office left the social network Tuesday. Jeff Rosen, DA for Santa Clara County—northern California's biggest county prosecutor's office—deactivated the office's official account, saying in a statement...

Reuters: Musk Firm Has Killed 1.5K Animals in Experiments

Sources say pressure from Musk is leading to rushed Neuralink experiments

(Newser) - At a demonstration for Neuralink last week, Elon Musk showed off a test monkey that had one of his company's brain implants inserted. He said "the monkeys actually enjoy doing the demos," and there was nothing evident from the monkey onstage that there was anything amiss. Musk...

The Short List Is Out for Person of the Year

'Time' will reveal winner Wednesday on 'Today' show

(Newser) - Wednesday is the big day for Time. It's when the magazine will announce its annual Person of the Year, and there are a bunch of headline-makers who've made the short list, per the Hill . Here are this year's contenders for the title, which will be announced on...

Musk&#39;s Surprise Friday Drop: Twitter&#39;s Hunter Biden Files
Musk's Surprise Friday
Leak: 'The Twitter Files'
THE RUNDOWN
Dec 3, 2022 10:45 AM CST

Musk's Surprise Friday Leak: 'The Twitter Files'

Writer Matt Taibbi posts internal convos on story on Hunter Biden's laptop, but not everyone's impressed

(Newser) - If tech reporters on the Twitter/Elon Musk beat thought they were going to get an early start to the weekend on Friday, a late afternoon tweet by Musk himself dashed those hopes. "What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at...

Watchdogs: Hate Speech Has Never Risen So Fast on Twitter

Antisemitic posts climbed 61% in Musk's first 2 weeks

(Newser) - Hate speech is increasing on Twitter at a rate never seen before, online watchdog groups said Friday. The dramatic change has taken place since Elon Musk took over the platform in late October, the New York Times reports, despite his claims to the contrary. The use of slurs against gay...

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