Tag: Musks
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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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Twitter responds to Musk’s claims, calls them ‘excuses’
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter denied in a court filing that it had deprived its would-be acquirer, billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, of necessary information or misrepresented details about its business. Musk originally made those charges to justify his attempt to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social platform, which he…