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Commentary: Elon Musk’s Twitter shows its dark side

For Twitter’s 200 million-plus daily active users, it’s been a long, strange week and a half. Elon Musk, billionaire, CEO and Twitter superfan, spent $44 billion on a much-contested, overvalued and at times dubious acquisition of his very favorite corner of the internet. Besides firing Twitter’s top leadership and half…

Los Angeles Times · Nov 10, 2022

Some Twitter users flying the coop hope Mastodon will be a safe landing

Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, some of the social network's users are looking for alternatives. One that's ballooned in the past two weeks is Mastodon.

WEKU · Nov 10, 2022

Scams already rife after Elon Musk rolls out paid 'Twitter Blue' verification

TWITTER Blue, the social media platform’s subscription service that allows users to buy a verification badge for the first time, has gone live in…

The National (Scotland) · Nov 10, 2022

Biden says Musk’s overseas links ‘worthy of being looked at’

US president’s comments come amid scrutiny of Saudi prince’s stake in the social media company.

Al Jazeera · Nov 10, 2022

Biden says Musk’s ties to other countries should be ‘looked at’ over national security concerns

Boss of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter has financial and commercial links to China and Saudi Arabia among others

The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2022

Elon Musk could learn from Mark Zuckerberg when it comes to layoffs

The CEOs of Meta and Twitter took a different approach to firing thousands of employees in the last week.

Fortune · Nov 9, 2022

Advertisers are dumping Elon Musk’s Twitter as hate speech rises

Musk pledged to keep Twitter a hate-free space, but a rise in hateful rhetoric is pushing companies to stop advertising on the platform.

Fortune · Nov 9, 2022

Twitter’s new paid verification is already creating a terrible experience for sports fans

Such an awful idea.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Nov 9, 2022

Who are the beneficiaries of 'free speech'?

How is it that a man who has banned 83 million people from Twitter can freely use the platform to post his messages denigrating women and supporting the brutal attack on the writer Salman Rushdie? I'm referring to the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose…

Bangkok Post · Nov 9, 2022

Elon Musk’s first Republican vote Mayra Flores just lost her seat in Congress after five months

In 2022, Telsa billionaire began voting Republican

The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2022