• Former Twitter executives deny being pressured by Democrats to block Hunter Biden story

    Former Twitter executives deny being pressured by Democrats to block Hunter Biden story

    Feb 08, 2023 09:11 PM EDT

    ... a laptop Hunter Biden is purported to have dropped off at a computer repair shop. The issue was also reignited recently after Musk took over Twitter as CEO and began to release a slew of company information to independent journalists, what he has called the “Twitter Files.” The documents and ...

  • Former Twitter executives to testify on company's handling of Hunter Biden story

    Former Twitter executives to testify on company's handling of Hunter Biden story

    Jan 30, 2023 11:56 PM EDT

    ... of a hard drive of a laptop that Hunter Biden had dropped off 18 months earlier at a Delaware computer repair shop and never retrieved. Twitter initially blocked people from sharing links to the story for several days. Months later, Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey called the company’s ...

  • Musk's Twitter changes put 'rocket boosters' on climate change misinformation

    Musk's Twitter changes put 'rocket boosters' on climate change misinformation

    Jan 19, 2023 11:24 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Search for the word “climate” on Twitter and the first automatic recommendation isn't “climate crisis” or “climate jobs” or even “climate change” but instead “climate scam.” Clicking on the recommendation yields dozens of posts denying the reality of climate change and making misleading claims about efforts to ...

  • Elon Musk says Twitter will ease ban on political advertising

    Elon Musk says Twitter will ease ban on political advertising

    Jan 04, 2023 07:51 PM EDT

    ... cause-based ads in the US." "We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks," the company said on its Twitter Safety account. Twitter banned all political advertising in 2019, reacting to growing concern about misinformation spreading on social media. At the time, then-CEO ...

  • Elon Musk tweets he'll resign as Twitter CEO when he finds a replacement

    Elon Musk tweets he'll resign as Twitter CEO when he finds a replacement

    Dec 21, 2022 03:17 AM EDT

    ... in his electric vehicle company Tesla who are concerned that Twitter is taking too much of his attention. Some of Musk's actions have unnerved Twitter advertisers and turned off users. They include laying off half of Twitter’s workforce, letting go contract content moderators and disbanding a council of ...

  • Twitter poll closes, majority of users vote for Musk to step down as CEO

    Twitter poll closes, majority of users vote for Musk to step down as CEO

    Dec 19, 2022 03:24 PM EDT

    ... Twitter to be completed in the next week or so. It's been more than a month since he said that. In public banter with Twitter followers Sunday, Musk expressed pessimism about the prospects for a new CEO, saying that person "must like pain a lot" to run a company ...

  • Twitter bans linking to Facebook, Instagram, other rival platforms

    Twitter bans linking to Facebook, Instagram, other rival platforms

    Dec 18, 2022 10:27 PM EDT

    Musk permanently banned the @ElonJet account on Wednesday, then changed Twitter's rules to prohibit the sharing of another person’s current location without their consent. He then took aim at journalists who were writing about the jet-tracking account, which can still be found on other sites including Mastodon ...

  • Twitter faces criticism after suspending accounts of journalists covering CEO Elon Musk

    Twitter faces criticism after suspending accounts of journalists covering CEO Elon Musk

    Dec 16, 2022 11:45 PM EDT

    Twitter is facing intense criticism after a series of moves by billionaire owner Elon Musk. Twitter suspended the accounts of at least eight journalists that had recently posted about Musk or his policy changes on content moderation. Some posted links to an account that tracked Musk's private jet’s travels through public data. Tech journalist Kara...

  • Journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk suspended from Twitter

    Journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk suspended from Twitter

    Dec 16, 2022 02:04 PM EDT

    ... tweeting about accounts being booted that had linked to the Elon Jet feed.” The suspensions come as Musk makes major changes to content moderation on Twitter. He has tried, through the release of selected company documents dubbed as “The Twitter Files,” to claim the platform suppressed right-wing voices under ...

  • EU’s new rules could clash with Musk’s tweaks to Twitter

    EU’s new rules could clash with Musk’s tweaks to Twitter

    Dec 15, 2022 06:47 PM EDT

    ... now international cyber policy director at Stanford University. "The problem is that there is a lot of hateful content below this threshold, which will make Twitter under Musk less safe and pleasant for women, minorities and people whose opinions are met with aggression," Schaake said. To tackle such "lawful but ...