Tag: Elon
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Elon Musk spars with Kathy Griffin, defends Twitter censorship plans after bans of impersonators
Twitter owner Elon Musk is defending his preferred censorship model for social media after touting new restrictions on users who fail to disclose they were impersonating other people, signaling more rule changes are coming. Mr. Musk announced a blanket ban on all users impersonating others without identifying as a parody on Sunday evening, which…
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Elon Musk vows to boot Twitter account impersonators
BOSTON — Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another. The platform’s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names – not their account names – and tweeted as ‘Elon Musk’ in reaction to the billionaire’s decision to offer…
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Cesspool or civility? Elon Musk’s Twitter at a crossroads
The discourse was never all that civil on Twitter. The loudest voices have often drowned out softer, more nuanced takes. After all, it’s much easier to rage-tweet at a perceived enemy than to seek common ground, whether the argument is about transgender kids or baseball. In the chaos that has enveloped Twitter the platform –…
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David Hogg scoffs at Elon Musk’s blue-check Twitter fee
David Hogg thinks people use Twitter because of certified “blue check” users such as himself. The gun-control advocate and liberal activist denounced a plan floated by new owner Elon Musk that would require prominent users to pay to have their accounts certified, saying it should go the other way — that people like himself should…
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Elon Musk’s ‘for cause’ firings of Twitter execs negate multimillion-dollar payouts
Elon Musk’s recent firing of Twitter executives is costing them millions of dollars in severance payments in his takeover of the social network. Mr. Musk fired chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, former general counsel Sean Edgett and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde after finalizing the $44 billion buyout Thursday,…
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Elon Musk friends subpoenaed by Twitter for upcoming lawsuit
Twitter issued a number of subpoenas to associates of Elon Musk to gather more information ahead of a lawsuit against the Tesla CEO for backing out of a deal to purchase the social media platform. One subpoena, obtained by The Washington Post and issued Monday, requests information on “checklists, timelines, presentations, decks, organizational calls, meetings,…