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Musk or no Musk, I have finally given up trying to give up Twitter

I learnt that Elon Musk had bought Twitter, fittingly enough, on Twitter. The response to the richest man in the world buying the social media site has been mixed, ranging from those who thought it was merely bad to those who believed it was absolutely terrible.

Evening Standard

Twitter revenue climbs to $1.2B, daily users at 229M

Twitter is reporting earnings of $513 million for the first quarter days after it agreed to be sold to billionaire Elon Musk

The Independent UK

Recap: Twitter Q1 Earnings

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) reported its Q1 earnings results on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 08:00 AM. Here's what investors need to know about the announcement.

Benzinga

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Scottish Twitter calls on Elon Musk to 'buy Irn Bru and put sugar back in'

The world's richest man took to Twitter last night to jokingly tease a new potential takeover of Coca Cola - and it didn't long for Scots to jump on it.

Glasgow Live

Elon Musk says Twitter must be ‘neutral’ as wave of leftwing users quit

World’s richest person aims to reassure followers, saying he will not seek to politicise social media network

The Guardian - UK

Everything that could be allowed on Elon Musk’s free-speech Twitter

There's a long list of speech now barred on Twitter that Musk's rules would allow.

Axios

Elon's big decision: Good or evil?

Twitter should be treated the way newspapers once were — as a public trust. If Musk gets that, this might work out

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Progressive Twitter Accounts Lose Followers, Conservatives Gain

Key figures on the American left, Barack Obama among them, have shed thousands of followers since Elon Musk's planned purchase of Twitter emerged, while numbers have soared for right-wing politicians. Musk, the world's richest man, struck a deal Monday to buy the US-based social media platform for $44 billion, AFP…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Musk's Twitter Purchase Puts Moral Champion in Crosshairs

The fate of Twitter's top attorney, deemed a moral champion of the platform, was in doubt Wednesday after Elon Musk tweeted displeasure with content moderation she had carried out. Musk, the world's richest man, has vowed to be a free speech absolutist when he takes control of the global messaging…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Elon Musk tweets he'd 'like to buy Coca-Cola and put the cocaine back in'

Earlier this week it emerged that Musk - one of the richest men on the planet - had agreed £35 billion offer to buy social media giant Twitter

Daily Mirror

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The Independent UK

Trending: Elon Musk on fun trail says 'buying Coca Cola next’

Elon Musk claimed that he has set eyes on Coca Cola to "put cocaine back in" and "McDonald's to fix ice-cream machines”. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

EXPLAINER: What Twitter could do as privately held company

If Elon Musk and Twitter get their way, the company will soon be privately held and under his control

The Independent UK

Musk’s Twitter financing tests Wall Street’s mettle: ‘What could go wrong?’

Volatile moves in Tesla stock underline deal’s risks as billionaire’s plan for $21bn equity portion remains a mystery

Financial Times

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Wales Online

Former Twitter boss accuses Elon Musk of making site’s executive a ‘target of threats’

News of Elon Musk's £34.5 billion takeover prompted some to question the future safety of the platform

Daily Mirror

Cate Blanchett slams Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and calls it 'very, very dangerous'

Cate Blanchett is the latest celebrity to voice her concern on Elon Musk's multi-billion pound takeover of social media platform Twitter

Benzinga

Elon Musk Says Twitter Should Have This Signal-Like Feature To Ensure Privacy

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) should have end-to-end encryption for its direct messages to ensure security.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk prevails in Delaware court case on SolarCity deal

A Delaware court sided with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a bitter legal battle over whether he acted against the best interest of other shareholders when he steered the electric car maker into a $2.6 billion acquisition of a solar panel maker founded by two of his cousins

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Benzinga

Why Elon Musk Thinks Twitter Has To Upset The Far Right And Left Equally

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWR) must be “politically neutral” to deserve “public trust,”

The Independent UK

QAnon influencers believe Elon Musk will restore their suspended Twitter accounts

Far-right conspiracy theorists believe the world’s richest man will expose the ‘deep state’ keeping them off the platform

Salon

What happened when I quit Twitter

If you're thinking of leaving after the Elon Musk news, here's what I've learned

Reason

"Would Censorship Have Stopped the Rise of the Nazis?"

Greg Lukianoff (President of FIRE) and Prof. Nadine Strossen (former President of the ACLU) have an excellent post on this subject; here's the beginning, though it's worth reading in its entirety: Given the recent panic over what Elon Musk buying Twitter may mean for hate speech regulation on the platform,…

Reason

If Elon Musk Is 'Targeting' Twitter Employees, Isn't The Washington Post 'Targeting' Elon Musk?

If there is a headline, it should probably be: "Elon Musk Agrees With Twitter That Censoring the Hunter Biden Story Was Wrong."

Benzinga

Elon Musk Continues To Take Shots At Trump's Truth Social

Elon Musk can’t get enough of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR).

The Independent UK

Voices: Why has Elon Musk — the purported champion of free speech — blocked me on Twitter?

It’s not only journalists. Musk has also blocked Public Citizen, a Washington DC-based nonprofit watchdog group that says it has been ‘standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 50 years’

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